Hertel Intendant in Pforzheim
Markus Hertel, who served as director and in-house director in Bern from 1991 to 1999, will take over the directorship of Theater Pforzheim from the 2022/2023 season.
From the 2022/2023 season, Hertel will manage Theater Pforzheim together with Administrative Director Uwe Dürigen. As the designated artistic director, he will already start the conceptual preparations for his term of office to a limited extent in spring. From September 2022, Markus Hertel will take up a five-year contract in Pforzheim as Thomas Münstermann's successor.
Markus Hertel was born in Essen in 1964 and studied directing at the University of Music in Munich, graduating with a degree in directing. His engagements have taken him from the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich to the theaters in Bern and Freiburg, the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding and Giessen, among others. From 2010 to 2020, Hertel was opera director at the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater in Flensburg.
He has been Artistic Director at the Wuppertaler Bühnen since 2020. In addition to his work at the theater, Markus Hertel is a lecturer at various colleges and universities and is dedicated to training the next generation of theater professionals. He is married and the father of three children.
