Moritz Lobeck

Moritz Lobeck studied musicology, urban sociology and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He worked as a curator and communications consultant in Berlin and as a dramaturge with director Andrea Moses at the Stuttgart, Berlin and Vienna State Operas with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Sylvain Cambreling and Ingo Metzmacher. From 2011, he worked as a dramaturge and Head of Marketing/Development at the Staatsoper Stuttgart under Jossi Wieler, and from 2014 as a curator at the Wiener Festwochen under Markus Hinterhäuser. Since 2019, he has directed the international festival DTZM – Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik and is Programme Director for Music and Media at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts. Here he initiated the HYBRID Biennale festival in 2022 as well as numerous international projects and collaborations, including with the Biennale di Venezia, IRCAM Paris, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica or MUTEK, artists such as Chaya Czernowin, Ryōji Ikeda, Maria Hassabi, Ulf Langheinrich and Claudia Märzendorfer or ensembles such as Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Modern, Zeitkratzer, Pisse and Staatskapelle Dresden. He has been working regularly with the artist Brigitta Muntendorf since 2020, and together they have conceived innovative concert and opera projects such as “Covered Culture”, “MELENCOLIA” and “ORBIT - A War Series”.