Jörn Weisbrodt
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Jörn Weisbrodt in June 2013
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| Born |
January 26, 1973 Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Occupation | Arts administrator |
| Spouse(s) | Rufus Wainwright (m. 2012) |
| Children | 1 |
Jörn Weisbrodt (born 26 January 1973) is a German arts administrator and erstwhile Artistic Director of the Luminato Festival, Toronto’s annual Festival of Arts and Creativity.
Weisbrodt was born in Hamburg and studied opera direction at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, graduating in 2000. While still a student, he worked closely with directors Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller, Peter Stein, Peter Konwitschny and Robert Wilson. He became Wilson’s personal assistant and also interned at The Watermill Center, Wilson’s Performance Laboratory in Long Island, New York. It was here that Weisbrodt decided he would rather be an arts facilitator—“I realized that I wasn’t an artist, I was an enabler of artists”.
After his graduation, Weisbrodt worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and held a number of positions in Germany, including Assistant Director at Deutsches Theater, co-founder of Zwischenpalastnutzung and Artistic Production Director at the Berlin State Opera.
In 2006 Weisbrodt moved to the United States to become Executive Director of Robert Wilson’s company RW Work Ltd. and Director of the Watermill Center. At Watermill he was responsible for developing inter-disciplinary performances and installations and establishing new partnerships with, among others, the Guggenheim Museum, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Moscow Biennale, Kampnagel Hamburg, the Donaufestival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Purnati Center for the Arts in Indonesia and Columbia University. He also oversaw the launch of a residency for emerging international artists.
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