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Christoph Marthaler | |
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| Born | 17 October 1951 |
| Occupation(s) | Theatre and opera director |
| Website | https://christophmarthaler.ch/ |
Christoph Marthaler (17 October 1951) is a Swiss director and musician.
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Christoph Marthaler | |
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| Born | 17 October 1951 |
| Occupation(s) | Theatre and opera director |
| Website | https://christophmarthaler.ch/ |
Christoph Marthaler (17 October 1951) is a Swiss director and musician.
Born in Zurich, Marthaler initially studied music (recorder and oboe). At the end of the 1960s, he attended Jacques Lecoq's theatre school in Paris. Back in Switzerland, he worked as a theatre musician and composer at Zurich's Theater am Neumarkt. This was followed by compositions for numerous productions at German-speaking theatres. In the following years, Marthaler established himself in the off-theatre scene with various projects. From 1988 to 1993, he worked continuously at the Theater Basel, where he developed several staged song recitals. [1]
In 1993 he moved to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg with theatre director Frank Baumbauer. In 2000 Marthaler took over as artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, leaving in 2004. In the following years, he directed plays and operas for some of the most prestigious venues in Switzerland and Europe, including the Paris Opera, the Bayreuth Festival and Madrid's Teatro Real.
In 2015, Marthaler was honored with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2018 he received the International Ibsen Award [2] .
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