Alfred Kirchner was born on 22 May 1937 and is a German actor, theatre director and theatre manager who is based in Berlin.
14 Facts About Alfred Kirchner
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Alfred Kirchner worked at theatres such as Theater Bremen, Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Staatliche Schauspielbuhnen Berlin, before turning to freelance work.
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Alfred Kirchner has staged productions in Europe and North America, including several world premieres of both drama and opera.
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Alfred Kirchner directed the premiere of Martin Walser's Ein Kinderspiel in Stuttgart in 1971, the US premiere of Henze's We Come to the River at the Santa Fe Opera in 1984, and the premiere of Hans Zender's Stephen Climax at the Oper Frankfurt in 1986.
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Alfred Kirchner was trained as an actor at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule fur Schauspiel in Berlin.
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Alfred Kirchner first worked as an actor and assistant stage director at the Theater Kiel.
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Alfred Kirchner is married; the couple have two daughters and live in Berlin and Stuttgart.
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Alfred Kirchner worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum with Hans Schalla.
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Alfred Kirchner staged as a guest at international theatres, opera houses and festivals, including New York City, the Wiener Festwochen, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the Mulheimer Theatertage.
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Alfred Kirchner then worked as a freelance opera director, including the Oper Frankfurt, Leipzig Opera, Vienna State Opera and Hamburg State Opera.
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Alfred Kirchner staged operas internationally, in Zurich, Barcelona, Oslo, Moscow, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Toulouse, Oviedo, Dallas, Santiago de Chile and often at the Santa Fe Opera, including the US premieres of Henze's We Come to the River and Venus and Adonis.
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Alfred Kirchner collaborated with conductors such as Michael Gielen, Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Levine, Gerd Albrecht, Paolo Carignani, Graeme Jenkins, Dennis Russell Davies and Bertrand de Billy.
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Alfred Kirchner staged world premieres of playwrights such as Martin Walser, Peter Turrini, Heiner Muller, Herbert Achternbusch, Dario Fo, Maxim Gorki and Gerlind Reinshagen and composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Zender and Udo Zimmermann.
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Alfred Kirchner taught at the University of Georgia, the Musikhochschule Hamburg, Hamburg University, and the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns Eisler".