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Peter Lund
Born (1965-12-30) 30 December 1965 (age 58)
Flensburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Organizations
  • Neuköllner Oper, Berlin
  • Berlin University of the Arts
Known fortheatre director, playwright, author

Peter Lund (born 30 December 1965, in Flensburg) is a German theatre director, playwright, and author, as well as Professor for Acting at Berlin University of the Arts. He has pioneered the New German Musical at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin.[1]

Life and career

Lund was educated in Flensburg and in Berlin, where he studied architecture. Since 1985 he has been active as a theatre director and author, e.g., in Braunschweig, Hannover, Darmstadt, Bremen, Hamburg, Basel, Innsbruck and Vienna. His focus lies on opera, operetta, and musical theatre. In 1985 he founded the performance ensemble Gruppe Comp&Co. From 1996 to 2004 he was artistic director of the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. Since 2002, Lund is Professor for Acting at the Musical/Show department at Berlin University of the Arts.

Lund initiated a collaboration of the Berlin University of the Arts Musical/Show department with the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. The university's graduating class performs a professional production of a new musical penned by Lund in collaboration with composers Thomas Zaufke and Wolfgang Böhmer, among others.[2]

In 2019, Lund and Zaufke produced a feature film version of KOPFKINO, which premiered at Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival in 2019. It was since screened at the Boddinale in Berlin and the Festival Audiovisual Infantil in Mérida, Venezuela.

List of Selected Works

Awards

In August 2015 Peter Lund was nominated for the German Musical Theatre Award by the German Musical Academy[3] and was honored in the category Best Book for Grimm! on 26 October 2015.[4] In 2016, he was awarded the German Musical Theatre Award for Best Book and Best Lyrics for Stella.[5] In 2019, he won the German Musical Theatre Award for Best Book for Drachenherz.[6]

References

  1. ^ Luehrs-kaiser, Kai (27 July 2007). "An Berlins Neuköllner Oper wirken Zaufke & Lund: Die wahren Helden des deutschen Musicals". DIE WELT. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Koproduktion mit dem Studiengang Musical/Show der UdK Berlin – Neuköllner Oper Berlin" (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. ^ Das sind die Nominierten für den Deutschen Musical Theater Preis 2015 Archived 24 September 2015 at archive.today In: musicalradio.de, 20 August 2015.
  4. ^ Der Deutsche Musical Theater Preis 2015: Die große Zeremonie In: musical1.de, 27 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Deutscher Musical Theater Preis 2016 | Deutsche Musical Akademie". Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Deutscher Musical Theater Preis 2019 | Deutsche Musical Akademie". Retrieved 22 April 2020.

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