Born in Vienna. Austrian citizen. 

Mag. phil. in Film-, Theatre- and Media Studies, University of Vienna. 

Artistic Director of the Sommerspiele Grein Festival.

Works primarily as a stage director, but also as dramaturge, producer, author and literary translator.

Since 1986 he has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and circus and has since 1993 directed more than fifty plays at venues in Austria and Germany, as well as in London, where he was based between 1995 and 2000, working with Tom Stoppard, David Farr, and Michael Kingsbury. In 2000 Hans-Peter moved to Copenhagen where he directed, among other plays, the first ever site-specific production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore and cross-over arts projects 9 x 9 x 9 at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, in collaboration with The Royal Theatre and Danish national broadcasting company DR.

In 2011 he directed his first opera production, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Bastien & Bastienne in Istanbul. The modern World première of Joseph Friebert's Das Serail will be staged in Salzburg in 2024 in his direction.

Since 2023 he is the Artistic Director of Sommerspiele Grein at the historic Stadttheater Grein. 

Hans-Peter has translated around twenty plays into German, many written by contemporary Scandinavian playwrights, and he regularly adapts classic plays for the modern stage. In recent years he has resumed theatre studies, with lectures and publications mainly related to European theatre and opera of the eighteenth century.

PRODUCTIONS AS DIRECTOR:

 

Kleine Eheverbrechen by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Sommerspiele Grein / Festival Steudltenn / Wald4tler Hoftheater 2023 

ROCKY - Die Rückkehr des Verlierers by Tue Biering

German première, Werk X Petersplatz, Vienna 2022 

Ich,Malvolio by Tim Crouch

German première, Theater THEO, Vienna-Perchtoldsdorf, 2021/22

Eine pornografische Beziehung by Philippe Blasband

Theater Akzent, Vienna and Hin&Weg Festival, Litschau, 2019 - 2023

1 x 1 x 1 - A staged installation at Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, 2018

9 x 9 x 9 - A New Museumsproject   

National Gallery of Denmark, Royal National Theatre, Danish Broadcasting Corporation DR,

Copenhagen, 2017

Ein bisschen Ruhe vor dem Sturm by Theresia Walser

Austrian première, Villach, Linz, Innsbruck, 2016, Hin&Weg Festival 2018

Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2016

Ein bisschen Ruhe vor dem Sturm by Theresia Walser

Austrian première, Theater Nestroyhof/Hamakom, 2015

Skylight by David Hare

Landsteatret, Copenhagen and tour, 2015

En Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher

Scandinavian, première, Copenhagen and tour, 2015

Der dressierte Mann by John von Düffel

Austrian première, Neue Bühne Villach, Villach, 2014

9 x 9 x 9 - A Museumsproject 

National Gallery of Denmark and Royal National Theatre, Copenhagen, 2014

Das normale Leben by Christian Lollike

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2013

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grønnegade Teater, Næstved, 2012

Bastien & Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Palais Yeniköy, Istanbul, 2011

Hauteng (Contractions) by Neil Bartlett

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2011

Cosmic Fear oder der Tag an dem Brad Pitt Paranoia bekam by Christian Lollike

Austrian première, Niederösterreichisches Landestheater, St. Pölten, 2010

Mobil by Sergi Belbel

Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, 2010

Der Patriot  by Felix Mitterer

Neue Bühne Villach, Villach, 2009

Ein Teil der Gans  by Martin Heckmanns

Austrian première, Niederösterreichisches Landestheater, 2009

Duet for One by Tom Kempinski (in English)

Vienna’s English Theatre, Vienna, 2008

Die Bernhardinerinnen by Anna Hauer

World première, Tiroler Dramatikerfestival / Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, 2008

Mobil by Sergi Belbel

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2007

Kleine Eheverbrechen by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Ensembletheater, Vienna, 2007

A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher (in English)

European première, Vienna’s English Theatre, Vienna, 2007

Stillleben in einem Graben by Fausto Paravidino

Austrian première, Ensembletheater, Vienna, 2006

Die Olsen Bande dreht durch by Peter Dehler

Theater Vorpommern, Greifswald/Stralsund, 2005

Oskar und die Dame in Rosa by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2004

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, 2003

Gestochen scharfe Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill

Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, 2003

Murder in Green Meadows by Douglas Post (in English)

Austrian première, Vienna’s English Theatre, Vienna, 2003

Context by Igor Bauersima

Austrian première, Ensembletheater, Vienna, 2002

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse/ Volkstheater, Vienna, 2002

Gestochen scharfe Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill

Ensembletheater Vienna, 2001

Hardcrash by Arthur Kopit

German première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2001

Knivskarpe Polaroider by Mark Ravenhill

Cafè Teater, Copenhagen, 2000

Hawkings Dream by Erwin Riess

British première, Teatro Technis, London, 2000

Die Bildermacher by Per Olov Enquist

Austrian première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 2000

Fourplay by Sergi Belbel

British première, Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1999 

Das wirkliche Leben by Jokum Rohde

Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1998

Monsieur Lovestar and the Man Next Door by Eduardo Manet 

British première, White Bear Theatre, London, 1998

Leatherface by Helmut Krausser

British première, Gate Theatre, London, 1998

Klein Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen

Kellertheater Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 1997

Spielwiese, zwei im Quadrat by Sergi Belbel

Austrian première, dieTheater Konzerthaus, Vienna, 1997/ Ensembletheater, Vienna, 1999

Kwetsch by Steven Berkoff

German première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 1997

Monsieur Lovestar und der Nachbar vom Flur by Eduardo Manet

German première, Volkstheater Vienna, 1996

Diesseits von Eden by Svend Aage Madsen

German première, dieTheater Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1994

Ich zähle die Stunden by Stig Dalager

German première, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, 1994

Der Prinz von Spandau by Helder Costa

World première, Residenztheater, Vienna, 1993