Jens-Daniel Herzog
| Jens-Daniel Herzog | |
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12 July 1964 Berlin, Germany |
| Education | FU Berlin |
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Jens-Daniel Herzog (born 12 July 1964) is a German stage director for play and opera, and a theater manager.
Jens-Daniel Herzog was born in Berlin, the son of the actor Peter Herzog. He studied Philosophy at the FU Berlin.
From 1989 Herzog was an assistant to the stage directors Dieter Dorn and Hans Lietzau at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1993 he directed there the premiere of Marlene Streeruwitz's New York. New York, in 1994 the premiere of Simone Schneider's Die Nationalgaleristen, also Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern (The Night Just Before The Forests) of Bernard-Marie Koltès. His production of David Mamet's Oleanna at the Schauspielhaus Zürich was invited to the festival Berliner Theatertreffen.
From 1995 Herzog was stage director and "Oberspielleiter" at the Kammerspiele. He also staged plays at the Hamburg Thalia Theater, the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Schauspiel Frankfurt. His first opera productions were Wagner's Tannhäuser and Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame in Zurich.Tannhäuser, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst with Peter Seiffert in the title role, was recorded on DVD in 2003.
From 2000 to 2006 he was Schauspieldirektor at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and also staged there Mozart's operas Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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