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German director and administrator. He studied law, music, drama and film, beginning his career in 1933 as a film director, but then moving into theater.

He staged a diverse repertoire, from baroque operas to works by 20th-century composers.

He was one of the leading German opera directors.

He published the work: "Opernarbeit. Inszerungen 1963-1973" (Kassel 1974).

He worked in Königsberg (1939), Berlin (1942), Munich (1945), Hamburg (1946), Glyndebourne (1959) and many other opera houses.

He collaborated with opera houses in Vienna , London , Milan and New York, and in the years 1960-1967 he was the chief director of the opera festival in Glyndebourne.

From 1946 to 1956 he was the intendant of the Hamburg Opera , and from 1967 to 1976 he was the intendant of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Rennert directed numerous world premieres, including Krzysztof Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun (Stuttgart 1969).

His stagings were characterized by attention to the realities of the piece and the psychological features of the stage characters.

Starting as a film director in 1933, he then became involved in the operatic theatre, becoming an assistant to Walter Felsenstein at the Opera of Frankfurt (Oder).