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As Director of the Dortmund Academy, he is in demand locally, nationally and internationally for lectures and discussions; one of his main concerns is the formation and promotion of a wide variety of networks for the performing arts, as well as the communication of artistic research in correspondence with the latest technologies to theatre and educational institutions, politicians and the public.
He is also involved in numerous committees, curatorial boards and juries, for example as Vice-President of the German Academy of Performing Arts since 2024 and as a member of the board of trustees of the Performing Arts Fund.
Since 1995, he has been working as a Director, set designer and author in musical and spoken theatre. His focus is on uncompromising contemporary interpretations of classics, as well as numerous world premieres and first performances at many renowned theatres in Germany in over 80 productions to date, including the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Frankfurt Opera, the Hamburg Opera, the National Theatre Mannheim, the state theatres in Kassel, Mainz, Saarbrücken, Darmstadt and Braunschweig, the Schauspiel Dortmund, the Theater Freiburg and the Wuppertaler Bühnen.
His artistic signature is characterised by innovative collective working methods with the ensembles and his close contact with contemporary authors and composers. In addition to numerous invitations and awards, his approach is also finding its way into the training of young talent:
since 2014, he has been invited as a guest lecturer and speaker to the Academy of Performing Arts in Ludwigsburg, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the University of Rostock, the Mainz University of Applied Sciences, the Zurich University of the Arts, the UDK in Berlin, the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf and, since 2016, annually to the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.