Hans Hartleb (director)
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Hans Hugo Christian Hartleb (3 May 1910 – ?) was a German opera director who worked internationally, focused on contemporary opera.
Born in Kassel, Hartleb first engaged in theatre studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and received his doctorate there in 1936. In 1935, he became head director at the Volksoper in Berlin. From 1947 to 1956, he worked in a similar position at the Grillo-Theater in Essen, from 1956 to 1961 at the Oper Frankfurt and from 1961 to 1967 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.[1] He then worked as a freelance director.[1][2]
Hartleb's special domain was modern opera as well as the Italian repertoire. He was the director of the national premieres of Berg's Lulu in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.[1] In 1967, he directed the world premiere of Eli by Walter Steffens at the Opernhaus Dortmund.[3] He translated several operas from Italian, French, English and Czech into German.[1]
Publications
- Deutschlands erster Theaterbau. Eine Geschichte des Theaterlebens und der englischen Komödianten unter Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.[4] Walter de Gruyter, Berlin among others 1936.
