UWE ERIC LAUFENBERG stage director

Uwe Eric Laufenberg is a German actor and theater and opera stage director. Since August 2014 he has been General Manager of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

After his graduation, Laufenberg has studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and he has worked as assistant of Rudolf Noelte, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Stein and . In 1983 he made his debut at the Darmstadt State Theater. From 1993 to 1997 he has been member of the Direktorium at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and later he has worked as a high- ranking director at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. Between 2000 and 2004 Laufenberg worked as a freelance director and actor in Berlin, Brussels, Geneva and Munich.

His great career has led him to have lots of experiences with productions staged in world renowned opera houses such as Ariadne at Naxos at the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels, The Rosenkavalier and Lady Macbeth of Mzensk at theSemperoper Dresden, The Bartered bride at the Volksoper Vienna, Tosca at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Ernst Krenek's Karl V at the Bregenz Festival and at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. From 2004 to 2009 Laufenberg has been General Manager of the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. Following this great task in 2010 he has become General Manager of the Opera. Here he has directed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ariadne on Naxos, as well as a small Mozart cycle (Don Giovanni, Il ratto dal serraglio and La clemenza di Tito). The performances staged thanks to his directorship were honored with the "Opernhaus of the Year Award". He also has gained huge success thank to the development of Wagner's entire Ring of the Nibelungen in the new Opera House in Linz, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

Among the most recent engagements Laufenberg has directed the new production of Elektra by Hofmannsthal and Strauss at the and he has been invited by the to take over the Parsifal production.

April 2018