Thurgau honors Jossi Wieler
This year's Culture Prize of the Canton of Thurgau goes to the theater and opera director Jossi Wieler. With the prize, which is endowed with CHF 20,000, the cantonal government is honoring the work of the prizewinner, who comes from Thurgau.
Jossi Wieler grew up in Kreuzlingen in 1951. He lived in Thurgau until 1972 and then moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, to study directing. He then gained his first stage experience at the Habimah National Theater and, from 1980, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. He then worked as an actor-director in Heidelberg, Bonn, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. From 1988 to 1993 he was resident director at the Theater Basel. He then worked as a freelance director, including at the Münchner Kammerspiele and repeatedly at the Salzburg Festival.
Since 1994, he has also directed operas together with Sergio Morabito. Wieler and Morabito were voted Directing Team of the Year in 2002 and 2012 and received the German Theater Prize Der Faust in the category "Best Opera Direction" in 2006 ("Doktor Faust") and 2012 ("Die glückliche Hand/Schicksal"). In 2015, Jossi Wieler was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Culture Prize; in 2016, he received the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
