Reinhard Schau

Reinhard Schau (8 September 1935 – 9 March 2019 ) was a German opera director and lecturer.

Life Born in Ełk, Schau studied opera direction with Heinz Rückert at the (1954/55) and with Carl Riha at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in (East-)Berlin (1955–59).

Until 1964, he worked as a director at the in Radebeul, where he collaborated with the dramaturge Dieter Härtwig. From 1964 to 1969, Schau was opera director at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, then opera director of the Theater Magdeburg until 1977. He staged the premieres of Dieter Nowka's opera Die Erbschaft (1960), Bill Brook and Old Fritz by Rainer Kunad (both 1965), Zimmermann's Weiße Rose (1968) and (1970); the German language premiere of Prokofiev's The Story of a Real Man (1963) and the first GDR performances of Stravinski's The Rake’s Progress and Dantons Tod by Gottfried von Einem (1967). Between 1982 and 1988 he published articles in the professional journal Theater der Zeit. Schau initiated the foundation of the " Fördervereins der Musikhochschule Weimar" of the Weimar Academy of Music in 1991, which he subsequently also headed.

After his retirement, the university appointed him as its honorary senator. From 2003, he published several books: Szenen um Hugo Wolf, and the Marie Seebach foundation in Weimar.

Stau died in Weimar at the age of 83.

Publications Kinder des Südens. Szenen um Hugo Wolf. Hamburg 2003. Das Weimarer Belvedere. Eine Bildungsstätte zwischen Goethezeit und Gegenwart. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2006. Das Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere in Weimar. Geschichte und Gegenwart. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2010. Die Stiftung der Marie Seebach – Ein Altenheim für Bühnenkünstler. Since 1895 in Weimar. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2015.