Herbert Wernicke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German opera director
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Place of Birth: Auggen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Herbert Wernicke
- Herbert Wernicke (24 March 1946 – 16 April 2002) was a German opera director and a set and costume designer.
- He was born in Auggen, Baden-Württemberg.
- He studied piano, flute, and directing at the conservatory in Braunschweig and set design at the academy in Munich.
- After starting out as set and costume designer in Landshut and Wuppertal, and directing his first play in Darmstadt, he directed his first opera, Handel's Belshazzar, in 1978 in Darmstadt.
- The majority of Wernicke's artistic work was at the theater in Basel, where he lived since 1990. On 16 April 2002 Wernicke died unexpectedly at age 56 after a short, serious illness in the hospital in Basel.
- On 5 May 2002 Theater Basel premiered Israel in Egypt in the fragmentary form left by Wernicke at his death.
- He was buried in a cemetery in Auggen, his birth city.
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