Nuremberg
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“We will see our work as a permanent exorcism”
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Jens-Daniel Herzog, 58, was director at the Munich Kammerspiele, theater director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and artistic director of the Dortmund Opera. Then he moved to Franconia.
(Photo: Ludwig Olah / Nuremberg State Theater)
A Wagner production on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds? For Nuremberg’s state director Jens-Daniel Herzog, this is essential after the opera house has moved. A conversation about ghosts of the past and the power of humor.
Interviewed by
Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg
Jens-Daniel Herzog has been State Artistic Director and Opera Director of the Nuremberg State Theater since the 2018/19 season. In 2025 he will be responsible for one of the largest cultural projects in the city’s post-war history: the interim relocation of the house to the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds and the renovation of the old opera house from 1905.
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