Thierry Bruehl (born February 19, 1968, in Paris) is a French-German theatre, music theatre and film director. He is the director of the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival (Taschenopernfestival Salzburg),[1] and has staged numerous productions.[2] The Pocket Opera comes to Salzburg every two years. At the 2019 event he organized a production which included scenes from "Othello", "Richard III", "What You Want" and "Midsummer Night's Dream".[3] For the September 2021 event, Bruehl has arranged a production featuring Zeynep Gedizouglu, Iris ter Schiphorst, Fabio Nieder and Wolfgang Mitterer.[4]
In 2007, Bruehl directed 5 x Deutschland,[5] a short film in the form of five video clips featuring so-called socially disadvantaged young people from Aachen, Bremen, Dortmund, Munich and Magdeburg who answer questions about their background, goals and perspectives.[6]
In 2019, Bruhl was the theatrical director of the Zahir Ensemble production at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain. One critic highlighted his "sober but effective and conceptual staging".[7]