Matthias Schulz dissolves in Berlin Jürgen Flimm from peaceful – THE WORLD

“The mayor wants to inform about the successor ….” lands such mail in the Berlin cultural editorial offices, then usually the rest then. Then it’s a director at the collar, then there was somewhere conflicts, then somewhere hanging of theater Haussegen wrong. So it was in any case the State Ballet, where Vladimir Malakhov quite rudely put the chair in front of the door and also the Casus Volksbühne where forcing into retirement Frank Castorf from 2017, only to leave it there the Perfomance Circus of Chris Dercon launched , And at the next mayor information, on 17 June at 13.30 clock in the foyer of the Schiller Theater, it is now supposed to Intendant Jürgen Flimm collar.

It was the same reading in supposedly well-informed media. But not true. Of course, one could well imagine it. Finally, top dog, Daniel Barenboim, whose ongoing since 1992 agreement is extended until 2022 (chief conductor for life of the Staatskapelle he is anyway, and it holds also a persistent rumor that he had the Berlin Philharmonic, where even on election day by phone a basket), already two directors destroyed: Only Georg Quander and then Peter Mussbach. And now so Flimm? “I am indigestible”, it sounds, however, cheerfully am Flimm’s phone. And so it is probably also.

Berlin Mayor and Senator for Culture in personal union, Michael Müller and his culture secretary Tim Renner, for lunch a Personnel public nod, which Barenboim and Flimm common potential from a list of more than twenty have ausgekaspert name: Matthias Schulz, since 2012 managing director of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation and together with the conductor Marc Minkowski director of the Salzburg Mozart Week, Jürgen Flimm will inherit, officially in the summer of 2018: “Then I am 77 years old and has the staff of a really younger generation passed, “said the allegedly ousted has also been speculated with usual Rhenish cheerful nature, about his state of health again.

Born in Munich in 1977 studied pianist and economist Schulz, who for already under Peter Ruzicka 2006 Project “Mozart 22″ was responsible and has worked very independently under Jürgen Flimm’s directorship as concert Speaker of the Salzburg Festival with this, will certainly take already from 2016 at the State Opera, especially to the necessary plans from 2018 with the necessary industry standards, in Berlin but to tackle rare unrealized lead time. At the same time he can master-also prepare the relocation and resettlement of the house from the Schiller Theatre in the historic Staa Stoper Unter den Linden at the Forum Fridericianum, which is scheduled for October 3, 2017.

Finally, you are there then in the prominent neighborhood of the Humboldt Forum in New Castle, the Museum Island with its new entrance building, the German Historical Museum, the new Pierre-Boulez Hall of the Barenboim-Said Academy in samples building behind the Opera House, the Bertelsmann that any premises to have record on the offer. And even for the prostrate Palais am Festungsgraben a new use is indeed currently looking for.

Finally a chance for Berlin! Schulz is a capable, level-headed, quite expansive thinking strategist with manageable ego – the Barenboim-lee not unimportant. And yet opened up, explicitly expressed by the parties, as well as a perspective, slowly think about a time by Daniel Barenboim. Then also it it is necessary in time to set the course. From a detuning between Daniel Barenboim and Jürgen Flimm can therefore be no question. He will therefore also attend the press event for which he specially interrupts his samples for Rossini’s “Otello” in Milan.