Anselm Weber
Director
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Anselm Weber became Intendant of Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2017/18, after holding the same position in Essen from 2005 and Bochum (2010 - 2017). During this time he worked regularly directing works for Oper Frankfurt, where his productions of Katja Kabanová, d'Albert's Tiefland, Korngold's The Dead City and Weinberg's The (female) Passenger were followed by this staging of Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk. His first productions as Intendant in Frankfurt were Segher’s The Seventh Cross which was followed by Miller‘s All my sons, George Brant’s Grounded, Ayad Akhtar’s Invisible Hands and Furor by Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz and many others. He made his operatic debut with Rigoletto at the Aalto Theater in Essen in 1999, where he also staged Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Siegfried and the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Die arabische Nacht / An Arabian Night (text by Roland Schimmelpfennig). Anselm Weber worked as house director of Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, and has directed at other places including the Burgtheater and Volkstheater in Vienna, the Residenztheater and Kammerspielen in Munich and the Deutsche Theater in Berlin.