Theater – Hamburg: Thalia director Joachim Lux’s contract extended until 2025
March 28, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Detailed open viewJoachim Lux, artistic director of Teatro Thalia, is seated in the theater. Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa/file image (Photo: dpa)Directly from the dpa news channel
Hamburg (dpa/lno) – Joachim Lux (64) will remain as director of the Hamburg Thalia Theater until 2025. The supervisory board unanimously decided on Monday to extend the contract, which originally ran until 2024, for one year to 2025, it announced the cultural authority. Lux has been director of Teatro Thalia since 2009. The contract was also extended at the express request of the representative of the ensemble.
“Joachim Lux created cultural highlights with his outstanding ensemble in the city and, mainly with international cooperation, made the stage a lively place for cultural exchange. Current productions and invitations to international theater meetings reinforce this path of success”, he said. Senator for Culture Carsten Brosda (SPD).
At the same time, the cultural authorities will also clarify the successor in the coming months with a selection committee and in close cooperation with the ensemble. “The ensemble’s unanimous vote touched me a lot at a time when theater management was often viewed critically,” said Lux, who actually wanted to stop in 2024.
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