BIOGRAPHY
Jens Neubert (* 1967 in Dresden) is a German author and director and works with opera, theater and film. He has also been working as a film producer since the late 2000s.
Jens Neubert was a singer and soloist in the Dresden Kreuzchor. He gained his first experience with theater at the age of 14 - 18 as an assistant for the matins plays of the cross choir. He studied music and psychology in Dresden and directing in Berlin.
From 1992 to 1996 he worked as a personal assistant and speaker for Ruth Berghaus and worked on her productions at Opera Frankfurt (Der Rosenkavalier), at Vienna's Burgtheater (Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis), Hamburg's Thalia Theater (Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe) and at the Hamburg State Opera with the premiere of Rolf Liebermanns Opera (Freispruch für Medea).
With the artist group Coopera, he directed between 1994 - 2000 several operas and workshops as a producer and director. In 1995 the Coopera group performed The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart at the Festspielhaus Hellerau. In 1997 the Coopera group led to the preservation of the Meissen theatre as a municipal theatre. In 1999 Coopera opened the Societätstheater in Dresden with the 4 week performance Homo Ludens. The Coopera installation Insects (Installation by Neubert & Music by Gundermann) was exhibited at the Beyerle foundation in Basel during the exhibition Blumenmythos in 2005.
From 2001 onwards he works as a freelance director and has done productions at the state theaters of Kassel, Cottbus, Weimar, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, and Fondation Beyerle Basel. In 2001 he was invited to the Patria - project by R. Murray Schafer and worked on The Wolf Shall Inherit The Moon in Canada, a collaborative project involving 75 volunteer participants. The work takes place over an entire week each August in the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve near Ontario’s Algonquin Park. It forms the epilogue to the composer’s massive Patria series. Schafer's concept of a theater of confluence inspired Neubert in his next works. He began to create his own productions also as an author and designer.
Neubert developed, wrote and directed plays about Bertolt Brecht (100th birthday celebration at Thalia Theater Hamburg, 1998), Arnold Schönberg (Kassel State Theater, 2000) and Heinrich Heine (Goethe-Institut Almaty, 2006). Together with the curator Markus Brüderlin, Neubert developed a staging of the play How to Pack Your Wishes on the Tail by Pablo Picasso for the Fondation Beyerle - in conjunction with artifacts from the artist.
As curator and project manager for the Merbag Holding Schweiz AG, he supervised the publication of seven Walter Felsenstein films in a special DVD edition, which was published in 2007 by Arthaus-Musik by the Felsenstein estate. In 2008, on behalf of the sponsor Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG, Zurich, he curated the supporting program of the special exhibition Artwork of the Future - Richard Wagner and Zurich (1849-1858) in the Zurich Museum Bärengasse and published in 2013 The Zurich Wagner Edition.
Neubert has published numerous books on art, music and theatre, Jean Baier - Expressively Concrete, Rodney Gladwell - Gods Go Running, Hans Jörg Holubitschka - The Colours of Urbino, Wieland Wagner - Opera Works and Daniel Widrig - Architecture And Objects. He published the Chronicle for Mercedes Benz Automobil AG in Switzerland on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
In 2015, Neubert founded the Film and Opera Academy Isola Brissago, which has been held annually at Villa Emden since then.
In 2008 he founded Syquali AG with its headquarter in Zurich together with Peter Stüber. The Syquali production Hunter’s Bride / Der Freischütz was selected in 2010 by the Montreal World Film Festival for the series “World Greats”. The Feature Film The Zurich Affair - Wagners One And Only Love was invited to the 22nd International Shanghai Film Festival and to the Habitat International Film Festival in New Delhi in 2022.