Georg Quander

Georg Quander (born 29 November 1950) is a German opera and film director, music journalist, writer and culture manager.

He engaged renowned directors such as Harry Kupfer, Patrice Chéreau, Dieter Dorn, Jürgen Flimm, Peter Mussbach [de] and Peter Greenaway and brought in conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Christoph von Dohnányi, Georg Solti and Michael Gielen regularly to the house.

On 28 April 2005, Georg Quander, who is not a member of any political party, was elected by a large majority of the Cologne City Council for a term of eight years as Head of the Department of Arts and Culture on the proposal of the CDU and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands.

[7] He thus succeeded Marie Hüllenkremer, who died suddenly, after the candidacy of Christoph Nix [de], the theatre director in Kassel, failed.

After Christoph Damann's departure, he appointed Uwe Eric Laufenberg as artistic director of the Cologne Opera in 2009, who successfully repositioned it and won the title of Critics' Poll of the Opernwelt for his 2011/12 season.

For example, he filmed a four-part television documentary on the opera houses in North Rhine-Westphalia for WDR, whose extensive research he also published as a book in the Cologne Wieland Verlag [de].

[17][18] Here he is responsible for the profile and further development of the Music Academy as well as the International Festival of Young Opera Singers founded by Siegfried Matthus.

In 2019, he also founded the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg[19] and staged Domenico Cimarosa's famous but rarely performed opera Gli Orazio e i Curiazi.