Michael v. zur Mühlen

Michael v. zur Mühlen has been directing cross-genre theater, operas, contemporary musictheater and immersive audio-visual formats since 2004 for the Munich Biennale, Kunstfest Weimar, NextLevel Festival Essen, PAD Festival Wiesbaden, HELLERAU, Forum Neues Musiktheater at the Stuttgart State Opera, and Berlin State Opera, among others. During the 2016/17–2020/21 seasons, he was director and chief dramaturg in the management team at Oper Halle, whose advanced program has received numerous prizes and awards as the Federal Theater Prize in 2019. His music theater film Im Stein, based on the musictheater by Sara Glojnarić and Clemens Meyer, was nominated for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2022 in the category “Sound and Media” and was honored as “important stream of the season” in the 2021 yearbook of Opernwelt. The videogame essay opera - a future game was awarded with the German theater prize DER FAUST 2023 in the category “Sound and Media” and nominated for the Explorer Award at the international AMAZE Festival for Playful Media.