Rotraut Arnold

Rotraut Arnold, a native of Coburg, studied school music at the Munich Academy for Music and Theatre, majoring in piano and singing as well as German literature. After her state exams in 1978 she completed training as an actress at the Gmelin Acting Studio.

Her first engagement was with the City Theatre of Heilbronn under Klaus Wagner. After 1984 she frequently worked, besides guest engagements in Bonn, Zurich, Hamburg and Aachen, in screen directing of the music news sections of the radio stations NDR, BR, SWR and for EuroArts. Conrad Hansen, Pianist and Teacher was her TV contribution to the artist's 80th birthday in 1986 while »German Brass Goes Circus« was produced under her direction in 2000. In 2010, she staged the musical »Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat« in Rosenheim.

Since 1996, Rotraut Arnold has worked at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. She appeared on the stage here as an actress and singer in more than 30 roles, in foyer programmes and with her own solo performances. Since the 2010/2011 season she has additionally been deployed in the children's and young people's theatre section as an education liaison. She has travelled with musicians of the theatre's own orchestra to schools in and around Munich, wrote and composed the youth musical Albertsplatz and, in the framework of TUSCH (Theatre and School), a cooperative venture of Munich State Capital and the Free State of Bavaria for cultural education between schools and theatres, worked together with two Munich schools.

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