The artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is stepping down in August 2028, the orchestra and the Berlin city administration’s Department for Culture announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
Andrea Zietzschmann will not be renewing her contract for a third term, they said.<\/p>\n
“After 11 years in office, it will be time for me to embark on a new path in 2028,” Zietzschmann, 55, explained.<\/p>\n
The comprehensive refurbishment of the Philharmonic’s concert hall, scheduled for 2032, will also “require a chief executive who is well versed in the subject matter and can oversee this demanding project in the long term,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“The timing I have chosen for this change is intended to contribute to this,” Zietzschmann added.<\/p>\n
The building that houses the orchestra, an iconic golden-coloured, asymmetrical concert hall designed by architect German architect Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), is in need of renovation. The orchestra is expected to require temporary accommodation from 2032 onwards. Details are not yet known.<\/p>\n
The Berlin Philharmonic – or Berliner Philharmoniker as it is known in German – is one of the world’s leading orchestras.<\/p>\n
Zietzschmann took over as artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation for the 2017-18 season. The cultural manager also steered the orchestra through the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is stepping down in August 2028, the orchestra and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[58983,112,40558,190],"class_list":["post-118715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-andrea-zietzschmann","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-philharmonic","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116834410610971983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}