Thierry Bruehl

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Thierry Bruehl (born February 19, 1968, in Paris) is a French-German director who works in theatre, music theatre, and film. He runs the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival (Taschenopernfestival Salzburg), which comes to Salzburg every two years. In 2019 he staged a show with scenes from Othello, Richard III, What You Want and A Midsummer Night's Dream. For the September 2021 festival, he organized a production featuring Zeynep Gedizouglu, Iris ter Schiphorst, Fabio Nieder and Wolfgang Mitterer. In 2007 he directed 5 x Deutschland, a short film made of five clips about socially disadvantaged young people from Aachen, Bremen, Dortmund, Munich and Magdeburg who talk about their backgrounds, goals and views. In 2019 he was the theatrical director for the Zahir Ensemble at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain, with one critic calling his staging sober but effective and conceptual.