16 Facts About Christof Nel

Christof Nel was a German theatre and opera director.

Christof Nel began his career as an actor but moved on to direct opera productions at major opera houses.

Christof Nel taught at the Akademie fur Darstellende Kunst Baden-Wurttemberg from 2011 to 2022.

Christof Nel was born in Stuttgart on 7 April 1944; his father was a violist and his mother a singer.

Christof Nel began his theatre career as an actor, engaged at the Schaubuhne am Halleschen Ufer by Peter Stein.

Christof Nel's first plays were produced at the Theater Koln, including the first performance in Germany of Occupations by Trevor Griffiths in 1973.

Christof Nel was successful in productions for the Schauspiel Frankfurt with Peter Palitzsch.

Christof Nel collaborated in interdisciplinary and experimental work with Heiner Goebbels and William Forsythe at the Theater am Turm Frankfurt.

Christof Nel directed in Berlin, at Theater Bochum and Theater Basel.

Christof Nel directed there Salome by Richard Strauss in 1999, Puccini's Madama Butterfly in 2001, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 2003 and Parsifal in 2006.

Christof Nel staged Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo in 2011.

Christof Nel directed world premieres, of Rolf Riehm's Das Schweigen der Sirenen at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 1994, and of Mauricio Kagel's TheaterKonzert at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duisburg, as part of the 2003 Ruhrtriennale.

Christof Nel returned to Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2005 with a production of Bakchen by Euripides, collaborating with his wife, the psychologist Martina Jochem.

Christof Nel directed, often with her assistance, Offenbach's Hoffmanns Erzahlungen at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Verdi's Don Carlo at the Staatsoper Hannover, Elektra by Strauss at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, Verdi's Aida at the Bavarian State Opera, and Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

Christof Nel taught at the Akademie fur Darstellende Kunst Baden-Wurttemberg from 2011 to 2022, from 2012 to 2014 heading the department of direction.

Christof Nel taught as a guest in Essen and Hamburg, among others.