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Hans Neuenfels published poetry and Prose in early years. After studying Directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, he staged at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Zurich and Vienna. From 1986 to 1990 he was the director of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin. He made films about Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Musil, Jean Genet and August Strindberg. Since 1974 he has been the director of the opera and has produced Verdi's "Aida" and "Macbeth", Schreker's "die Zeichen" and Busoni's "Doktor Faust" in Frankfurt; the world premiere of York Höller's " der Meister und Margarita "in Paris; Wagner's" Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg "and Mozart's" die Entführung aus dem Serail " in Stuttgart. In 2000 he staged Mozart's " Così fan tutte "at the Salzburg Festival and in 2001" Die Fledermaus "by Johann Strauß and will return there in 2018 with Tchaikovsky's" Pique Dame". At the Deutsche Oper Berlin he staged "La forza del destino", "Rigoletto", "Il trovatore" and "Nabucco", Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten"and Mozart's "Idomeneo". At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin he produced Mozart's " La finta giardiniera "and Strauss's"Ariadne auf Naxos". In 2010, the Bayreuth Festival was opened with its production of Wagner's "Lohengrin". In 2005, 2008 and 2013 he was elected "opera director of the year". In the summer of 2011 appeared "the bastard book: autobiographical stations". In 2016, he was awarded the German theatre prize "der Faust" for his life's work.