Dr. Arne Langer

Born in Detmold and raised in Gütersloh, he first studied musicology at the Detmold University of Music, then combined it with theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin. He also worked as an assistant director at the Landestheater Detmold and as a stage manager at the Theater des Westens in Berlin with Götz Friedrich. Arne Langer was a trainee at the Komische Oper Berlin under Harry Kupfer. He founded and directed the Musiktheater-Werkstatt Berlin, for which he developed three productions. He was also a scholarship holder at the Bayreuth Festival. After completing his master's degree, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1989 to 1996, teaching music theatre. In 1995, he completed his doctorate in musicology with a thesis on the subject of The Director and the Recording Practice of Opera Staging in the 19th Century. Arne Langer then taught as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and at the Ruhr University Bochum.

In 1998, he became personal assistant to the general director and head of public relations at the Erfurt Theatre. Since 2002 he has worked at the Erfurt Theatre as chief dramaturge. He was a member of the advisory board and author for the encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and wrote academic articles for the Verdi Handbook, the Wagner Lexicon and The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia, among others. He has also held teaching positions at the Institute of Musicology Weimar-Jena (2001-2014), the University of Bayreuth (2017-2021) and the Detmold-Paderborn Musicology Seminar (2023).