Ingo Günther

Ingo Günther is a German musician, composer, and actor. Günther studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim and pop music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is a co-founder of the film music band the Paramounts, with whom he has produced several CDs. He has collaborated with directors such as Jarg Pataki, Sebastian Baumgarten, Barbara Weber, Claudia Bauer, and Armin Petras at theaters such as Schauspiel Leipzig, the Bavarian State Theater, Theaterhaus Jena, National Theater Weimar, Schauspiel Magdeburg, Burgtheater Vienna, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Maxim Gorki Theater, Schaubühne Berlin, and the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In 2007, he began working with Herbert Fritsch on various projects, including the intermedia art project Hamlet X and the 2010 film Eleven Uncles. His work with Fritsch at the Volksbühne includes productions such as Die (s)panische Fliege (2011), Murmel Murmel after Dieter Roth (2012), Frau Luna by Paul Lincke (2013), Untitled No. 1 – An Opera by Herbert Fritsch (2014), der die mann to Konrad Bayer (2015), and Pfusch by Herbert Fritsch (2016). He has also worked as a composer, musician, actor, and conductor in Fritsch's productions at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, including The School for Wives by Molière (2014) featuring Joachim Meyerhoff, and in the context of the Amphitryon production at the Schaubühne in Berlin, also with Meyerhoff and Fritsch. Currently, he is appearing in "Die Gehaltserhöhung" at the Deutsches Theater. Günther lives in Berlin.