Mag.phil Oliver Binder, Dramaturgy
Lecturer for Dramaturgy
binder@mdw.ac.at

Oliver Binder, born in Salzburg in 1970, studied German language and literature, musicology and history at Paris-Lodron University in his hometown. He was dramaturge at the Salzburg State Theatre (1995–2000) and the Heilbronn Theatre (2000–2002), as well as at the Dortmund Opera (2002–2004) and Cologne Opera (2005–2009). He has worked with directors including Beverly Blankenship, Peer Boysen, Martin Duncan, Michael Gampe, Karoline Gruber, Patrick Guinand, Michael Hampe, Joachim Herz, Sigrid Herzog, Lutz Hochstraate, Tilman Knabe, Thomas Krupa, Harry Kupfer, Paulus Manker, Christine Mielitz, Christian Pade, David Pountney, Werner Prinz, Katharina Rupp, Christian Stückl and Claus Tröger. Since 2009, Oliver Binder has been working as a freelance dramaturg (including Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Henry Purcell's King Arthur at the Augsburg Theatre, Mieczysław Weinberg's Идиот [The Idiot] at the National Theatre Mannheim) and as an author and lecturer for the Cologne and Essen Philharmonic Orchestras, the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Konzerthaus, among others. He has a long-standing collaboration with the Schloss-Spiele Kobersdorf. In 2012, he produced a new German translation for the new production of Ruggero Leoncavallo's Der Bajazzo at the Vienna Volksoper. His libretto for the opera Der Wind in den Weiden (loosely based on Kenneth Grahame) is being set to music by Christoph Althoff for the Landestheater Linz. In 2013, Oliver Binder took over the teaching position for dramaturgy at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at the Department of Voice and Musical Theatre.

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