Michael Thalheimer

In 1997, he presented his first production at the Theater Chemnitz:[1] Fernando Arrabal's The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria.

[1][2] In 2005, Thalheimer made his debut as an opera director with Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, followed in December of the same year by an interpretation of Verdi's Rigoletto.

At Hamburg's Thalia Theater in particular, Thalheimer acquired an excellent reputation as a theatre director with productions of Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, Schnitzler's Liebelei and other classics.

As a perfectionist, Thalheimer attaches great importance to the facial expressions and gestures of his actors, who sometimes fill minutes of wordless phases, which are then replaced by a flood of text recited in paragraphs and performed in staccato.

[3][4] His production of Dea Loher's play Innocence became the subject of a protest action in spring 2012.