David Hermann Professor of Directing Music Theatre at the HfMT Hamburg
The Franco-German opera director and Eisler alumnus David Hermann (*1977) has been appointed professor for the ‘Music Theatre Directing’ course at the Theatre Academy of the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT).
David Hermann studied music theatre directing at the Eisler in the 1990s, was assistant to the renowned director Hans Neuenfels and was awarded first prize at the Ring Award, the international music theatre competition for directing, stage and costume design in Graz, in 2000. In the years that followed, he established himself as a sought-after director at renowned opera houses in Germany and abroad. His work has taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Basel Theatre, the Opéra de Lyon, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Ruhrtriennale and the Munich Biennale as well as the Salzburg Festival, among others.
In 2018, he was nominated as ‘Director of the Year’ at the International Opera Awards in London for his production of the Krenek Trilogy at Oper Frankfurt. The production was honoured in the ‘Rediscovery of the Year’ category. Hermann received the German Theatre Award DER FAUST in 2023 for the world premiere of Gordon Kampe's Dogville at the Aalto Theatre Essen.