He also wrote the libretto for the opera Kniefall von Warschau[1] named after Willy Brandt's genuflexion in Warsaw on 7 December 1970, with music by Gerhard Rosenfeld, which premiered in 1997 in the Opernhaus Dortmund, directed by John Dew.
Thus in 2003 he staged Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann; Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Bizet's Carmenat the Staatstheater Oldenburg[4] and Mozart's Così fan tutte at Heidelberg theater.
[6] Subsequently, he worked among others in 2009 at Staatstheater Kassel, in 2010 at Bühnen der Stadt Gera [de] and since 2011 at Theater Chemnitz, where he performed Nicolai's opera Die Heimkehr des Verbannten.
[8] From March 2013 to August 2017 he was engaged as opera director at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and staged here among others Jenő Hubay's Anna Karenina, Astor Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires, Herrmann's Wuthering Heights and the musical Ragtime.
He also wrote the libretto for the opera Kniefall von Warschau named after Willy Brandt's genuflexion in Warsaw on 7 December 1970, (music Gerhard Rosenfeld), which premiered in 1997 in Dortmund under the direction of Dew.