Tilmann Köhler

Tilmann Köhler (born 1979) is a German theatre stage director who has worked with the ensembles of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. His broad repertoire includes classical plays and world premiered. Several of his productions have been invited to international festivals. Köhler turned to also staging operas in 2013, beginning with Handel's Teseo at the Oper Frankfurt, where he returned to direct Martin's Le Vin herbé, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge.

Life and career Köhler was born in Weimar. He was a theatre actor and director at the Theaterfabrik of the . He also worked for the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Theater Basel and the Oper Frankfurt.

Köhler was invited to direct the opening of the 2023/24 season, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in the first performance with the new music director Thomas Guggeis. A reviewer from the FAZ noted that Köhler staged playful "serious games" ("ernste Spiele"), in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind". Invitation to Festival Premières Strasbourg and to Deutsches Kinder- und Jugendtheatertreffen "Augenblick Mal! 2007" Othello by William Shakespeare, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2006. Invitation to Radikal jung 2007 Separatisten by Thomas Freyer, world premiere, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 2007 Faust I by Goethe, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008 Hamlet by Shakespeare, Maxim Gorki Theater 2008 Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe by Bertolt Brecht, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2009. Der geteilte Himmel after the novel by Christa Wolf, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2013 Teseo by Handel, Oper Frankfurt 2013 Jugend ohne Gott after the novel by Ödön von Horvath, Deutsches Theater Berlin 2013 Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui by Brecht, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2014 Mario und der Zauberer by Mann, Schauspiel Stuttgart 2014 Drei Schwestern by Anton Chekhov, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2014 Mein deutsches deutsches Land by Thomas Freyer, world premiere, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2014. Invitation to the Autorentheatertage Berlin 2015 Macbeth by Shakespeare, Deutsches Theater 2015 Maß für Maß by Shakespeare, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2015 Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Schiller, Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2015 Radamisto by Handel, Oper Frankfurt 2016 Xerxes by Handel, Oper Frankfurt 2017 Bianca e Falliero by Rossini, Oper Frankfurt / Tiroler Festspiele Erl 2022 Undine by Albert Lortzing, Oper Leipzig 2022 Das Leben ist Traum by Calderón de la Barca, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2023 Le Vin herbé by Frank Martin, Oper Frankfurt, 2023