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The Götz Friedrich Prize for the Promotion of Young Talent recognizes outstanding achievements in music theater. It was donated in 1995 by the legendary director and artistic director Götz Friedrich and is now supported by the German-speaking Opera Conference.
The jury awarded the Götz Friedrich Studio Prize to the German director Kai Anne Schuhmacher for her staging of Viktor Ullmann's “The Emperor of Atlantis” at the Gera Theater.
The studio award is endowed with 2500 euros. Kai Anne Schuhmacher, 31, lives in Cologne and works freelance all over Europe as a director, librettist and playwright, puppeteer and puppet maker. Until 2017 she was assistant and director at the Cologne Opera, where she also staged “The Rape of Lucretia”, “Hoffmann's Stories for Children” and “Pierrot Lunaire”. In May 2020 she will direct Mozart's “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” in Cologne. ( www.kaianneschuhmacher.com )