Rudolf Sellner
He staged notable world premieres, including Ernst Barlach's play Der Graf von Ratzeburg in 1951, Ionesco's Mörder ohne Bezahlung in 1958, Giselher Klebe's Alkmene in 1961 for the opening of the Deutsche Oper, and Aribert Reimann's opera Melusine in 1971.Born Gustav Rudolf Sellner in Traunstein, he began his career as an actor, dramaturge and stage director at theatres in Mannheim under Francesco Sioli [de] from 1925, in Gotha from 1928, and in Coburg from 1929 to 1931.He worked as a regular guest at the Burgtheater, staging a cycle of plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex in 1960, Antigone in 1961, and Elektra in 1963.In 1959, he was invited by Carl Ebert to stage Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron at the Städtische Oper Berlin.[8] The new opera house was inaugurated in 1961 with a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, staged by Ebert and conducted by Ferenc Fricsay, with singers such as Elisabeth Grümmer, Pilar Lorengar, Erika Köth, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Donald Grobe, Josef Greindl and Walter Berry.Regisseur und Intendant, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf [de], by the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (Collection of theatre science) of the University of Cologne[7]