Jury

The RING AWARD 25 Jury

Jossi Wieler

Director, Chair of Jury

Jossi Wieler was born in Switzerland and grew up there. Studied directing in Israel. 1979, first production at the Israeli National Theatre. Since 1982 he has directed at prominent theatres in Germany and Switzerland, and repeatedly at the...

Jan Henric Bogen

General Artistic Director Konzert und Theater St. Gallen

Jan Henric Bogen was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He studied Law and Musicology in Heidelberg and Cologne. In the course of his professional career, he has held various positions that required both artistic and administrative skills. From...

Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska

General Manager Teatr Wielki Poznań

Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska has been General Manager of the Poznań Opera House since 2012. She served as a Board Member of Opera Europa from 2016 to 2022 and as jury member for the FEDORA Digital Prize, Premio Cantelli, 10th...

Valérie Chevalier

Directrice Générale Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Valérie Chevalier has received a musical education from the age of nine taking singing, flute and drama lessons. After winning the first prize in singing at the Rouen Conservatory, she became a member of École d’Art Lyrique de...

Klaus Grünberg

Set and Light Designer

Klaus Grünberg comes from Hamburg, studied Set Design with Erich Wonder at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and has since worked as a freelance set and light designer at theatres and opera houses in Europe as...

Tatjana Gürbaca

Director

Tatjana Gürbaca, born in Berlin, lives in her home city. She studied directing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and attended Master Classes in music, literature and dance. Tatjana Gürbaca is the last Master student of Ruth...

Marlene Hahn

Head of Dramaturgy Oper Leipzig

Marlene Hahn is a graduate of the Elite Graduate Programme Ethics of Text Cultures, which she completed in autumn 2011 alongside her studies in German and Art History at the University of Augsburg. From 2007 to 2008, she...

Stefan Herheim

Stage Director, Intendant Theater an der Wien

As one of the most sought-after opera directors of his generation, Stefan Herheim has taken over the directorship of the Theater an der Wien, the stagione opera house of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, since the 2022/23 season. After...

Marko Hribernik

Conductor, Artistic Director of Opera SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana

The Slovenian conductor Marko Hribernik was born into a musical family and began his career as a pianist. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Professor Aci Bertoncelj. He received the Student Prešeren Award for...

Ulrich Lenz

Dramaturg, Intendant Oper Graz

Ulrich Lenz studied Musicology, Theatre Studies and Art History in Munich, Berlin and Milan. He began his theatre career in the 1997/98 season as assistant dramaturge at the Stuttgart State Opera. In the following years he worked as...

Andrea Moses

Director, Artistic Director of Opera Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

Andrea Moses was born in Dresden. She studied Theatre Directing and Acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and at the GITIS in Moscow. The Strauss double bill "Salome" and "Elektra" at the Staatstheater...

Annette Murschetz

Set Designer, Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

Born in Munich, Annette Murschetz studied Set Design under Prof. Erich Wonder at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she later also taught. Since 1994, she has worked as set designer at major theatres and opera houses...

Elisabeth Sobotka

Intendant Bregenzer Festspiele, des. Intendant Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Born in Vienna, Elisabeth Sobotka studied Musicology, Theatre Studies, Journalism and Business Administration at the university in her home city and completed her studies with a thesis on the composer and conductor Franco Faccio. She completed a course...

Andrea Vilter

Dramaturg, Intendant Schauspielhaus Graz

Andrea Vilter studied Literary and Theatre Studies in Mainz and Berlin. From 1994 to 2000, she worked as a freelance editor for the German publishing house Rowohlt Theater Verlag. In 1999, she received a one-year scholarship at the...

Sibylle Wallum

Costume Designer

Sibylle Wallum studied Design for Performance (BAHons of Fine Arts) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. From 2011 to 2014 she worked as a Costume Assistant at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. She...