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Michael Leinert was born in 1942 in Meldorf / Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. His father, Friedrich Leinert was a well-known composer ( a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg), conductor and Professor of Music in Hannover. Michael Leinert studied Music, German Literature and History of the Arts at the University of Munich and Detmold. His teachers of Drama Direction and Opera Direction were Professor August Everding, Professor Heinz Arnold and Professor Goetz Friedrich. In 1970 he became a Dramaturg and director for drama and opera at the Theater of Kiel. Following this appointment, came further engagements as Dramaturg and stage director at the State Theater of Braunschweig, the State Opera of Hamburg (Everding / v.Dohnanyi) and the State Opera of Munich (Everding). In 1985, Michael Leinert became the personal assistant of General-Intendant Tobias Richter (State Theater of Bremen). In 1988 he was appointed Artistic Director and General Manager of Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and from 1991-1999 he was the Artistic Director and General Manager of the State Theater of Kassel. In autumn 1999 Leinert started his position as Chefdramaturg  and stage director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duesseldorf-Duisburg (until summer 2006). Mr. Leinert has been invited to direct plays and operas in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Russia, The United States and Cyprus. He promoted and performed also experimental authors and modern music composers. He has written and directed many Radio Plays, several successful opera libretti and three musical plays for children. His biography of the German Romantic Composer Carl Maria von Weber is published in the fifth edition by the well-known Rowohlt Verlag (Serie Monografien) and has been translated into Swedish and Chinese. Michael Leinert has taught as a Guest Professor of Opera History and Opera Literature and Drama at the Universities of Bremen, Braunschweig, Hamburg and Munich. At Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf he taught stage direction for the Opera Department.

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