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frankfurt , germany 09 may 1940 marianne weigmann berlin and munich , germany klaus zehelein.jpg klaus zehelein
 klaus zehelein dramaturge goethe university frankfurt
klaus zehelein

klaus zehelein -lrb- born september 5 , 1940 , in frankfurt am main -rrb- , is a german dramaturge .
he was president of the munich bayerische theaterakademie august everding .
zehelein is also president of the association of german theaters , deutscher bühnenverein .
for fifteen years , from 1991 until 2006 , zehelein was artistic director of the staatsoper stuttgart .
critic gerhard rohde , summing up zehelein 's theatre work at the stuttgart opera , says `` zehelein does not view opera as a culinary phenomenon .
for him opera is an extremely complex matter , where all arts -- as well as social , philosophical , historic , utopic and other aspects -- unite .
this complexity of opera merits being perceived , being seen , being experienced ; thus all works that end up performed on stage , are rigorously analyzed beforehand .
he who says this results in thinned-out , merely sophisticated opera performances , missed out substantially in the zehelein-era in stuttgart . ''
