Lucerne's new artistic director is Ina Karr
Ina Karr will take over the directorship of Lucerne Theater from summer 2021. This was announced by the Board of Trustees in Lucerne today, Wednesday. Born in Stuttgart, she has been Chief Dramaturge for Opera at the Mainz State Theater since 2014 and was previously Opera Director at the Oldenburg State Theater.
More than 60 candidates applied to succeed Lucerne's artistic director Benedikt von Peter, who is moving to Theater Basel. The Lucerne Theater Foundation Board unanimously elected the future artistic director. Her contract initially covers the 2021/22 to 2025/26 seasons.
Despite the large number of applications, the selection committee decided to appoint the future artistic director directly. Karr was born in Stuttgart in July 1968 and studied music, musicology and modern German literary history. She was a dramaturge and project manager for contemporary music and music theater, worked at the Nationaltheater Mannheim before moving to the Oldenburg State Theater as opera director and finally joining the Mainz State Theater as chief dramaturge for opera.
In 2018, Ina Karr was also a production dramaturge at the Salzburg Festival for Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute". She develops new works in the field of music theater for young audiences, publishes in specialist magazines and is a regular jury member.
