Andreas K. W. Meyer

Andreas K. W. Meyer (2 June 1958 – 8 April 2023) was a German dramaturge, journalist, librettist and opera manager. He directed the Oper Bonn from the 2013–14 season. Meyer was focused on the revival of forgotten operas, especially from the early 20th century, such as Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna by Walter Braunfels.

Life and career Meyer was born in Bielefeld on 2 June 1958. After his Abitur passed at the in his home town, and private composition studies with Rudolf Mors, he studied at the University of Münster from 1981, musicology with Klaus Hortschansky, among others, art history and German studies.

Journalist In 1987, he began working as a freelance critic, among others for the Frankfurter Rundschau and various broadcasters including WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk. and Allan Pettersson. following Harms.

Meyer collaborated with stage directors including Katja Czellnik, Marco Arturo Marelli and Johannes Schaaf. In Kiel in 2000, he first directed operas, a double bill of Fennimore and Gerda by Delius and Bartók's Herzog Blaubarts Burg, stage design by Anna Kirschstein.

He wrote the libretto of Wilfried Hiller's 1998 opera Der Schimmelreiter after Storm's novella.

Opera manager At the start of the 2013–14 season, he became manager of the Oper Bonn. He initiated revivals such as Der Traum ein Leben by Braunfels, Reznicek's Holofernes and Waltershausen's Oberst Chabert. In a series, FOKUS '33, he explored the reasons for the disappearance of operas from the repertoire under the Nazi regime.

Publications

Essays in various publications, including: Frederick Delius: Music, Art, and Literature. ed. Lionel Carley. Aldershot 1998. Franz Schreker, Grenzgänge – Grenzklänge [Medienkombination]. Zur Ausstellung "Franz Schreker: Grenzgänge – Grenzklänge" des Jüdischen Museums der Stadt Wien vom 15. Dezember – 24. April 2004. Inkl. 2 CDs. Editor Michael Haas and Christopher Hailey im Auftrag des Jüdischen Museums. Vienna 2004.

Meyer contributed to the Bayerische Staatsoper yearbook, the Allan Pettersson yearbook and the Bertelsmann Concert Guide.