UWE ERIC LAUFENBERG Uwe Eric Laufenberg is a German actor and theater director. Since August 2014 he has been General Manager of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. After completing his Degree, Laufenberg studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 1981 to 1984 and learned his job assisting Rudolf Noelte, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Stein and Ruth Berghaus. In 1983 he made his debut at the Darmstadt State Theater. In 1985, he moved to Frankfurt as an actor and director, and his first productions followed in 1988 - Harald Kuhlmann's Pfingstlauuten, Rainald Goetz's War, Ferdinand Bruckner's Disease of Youth and Albert Camus' And return to the desert of Bernard Marie Koltès. In 1990, Laufenberg switched to acting in Cologne, where he, among others, did Merlin or The Desert Country, The visit of the old lady as well as Clavigo. From 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the Direktorium at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, where he did, among others, Die Räuber, Dantons Tod and Hamlet. After that, he 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. Since 1992 Laufberg has also staged musical theaters on international houses, such as Ariadne at Naxos at the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels, The Rosenkavalier and Lady Macbeth of Mzensk at the Semperoper Dresden, The Sold bride at the Volksoper Vienna, Tosca at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In the summer of 2008, his production of Ernst Krenek's Karl V was shown at the Bregenz Festival, while Don Giovanni at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. From 2004 to 2009, Laufenberg was General Manager of the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. Laufenberg invented the concept of Potsdam on the road, directed by Jenny Treibel to Fontane's novel and, with his ensemble during this time, recorded the most varied places in the city, including the French Church, the Orangery of Sansouci Palace and the Palais Lichtenau. He opened the new house on 22 September 2006 with his production of the premiere of Torsten Beckers Katte. In Potsdam, he was also among others in Veronika decides to die after Paulo Coelho and on the side of Dagmar Manzel in the Operetta Die Fledermaus, directed by Adriana Altaras. From the 2009/2010 season, Laufenberg was General Manager of the Cologne Opera. Here he 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 of his directorship were honored with the award "Opernhaus of the Year" by the trade magazine Opernwelt and their annual survey among 50 international opera critics in autumn 2012. It was the first and so far the only time that this recognition was awarded to the opera in Cologne. In August 2013, his literary work on the Cologne experience appeared in a novel form in a Potsdam publisher. "Palermo" describes the cultural-political antics and quarrels surrounding an opera house, transposed to Sicily. Between 2013 and 2015, Laufenberg developed Wagner's entire Ring of the Nibelungen in the new Opera House in Linz, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. Laufenberg has chosen Die Frau ohne Schatten by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss for his beginning as General Manager of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden in August 2014 . Laufenberg also immediately brought together the various children's and youth theater parties of his house in the new project "JUST" ( Young State Theater ). In March 2015 Laufenberg directed the new production of the Elektra by Hofmannsthal and Strauss at the Vienna State Opera conducted by Mikko Franck, sang by Anna Larsson (Clytemnestra), Nina Stemme (Elektra), Ricarda Merbeth (Chrysothemis), Falk Struckmann (Orest) and Norbert Ernst (Aegisth). Already in November 2014 the director had been invited by the Bayreuth Festival to take over the Parsifal production for 2016 At the center of the playtime 2016 - 17 at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden is Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen in a revision of the Linz version, now with Alexander Joel on the desk. Gerd Grochowski (Wotan) and Margarete Joswig (Fricka), Andreas Schager (Siegfried) and Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) take over the central roles. January 2017 .