- Schauspieldirektor der Salzburger Festspiele (2002)
- After establishing himself as one of the exponents of Regietheater, Flimm was called to manage renowned theaters and festivals.
- His operatic productions in Germany led to an international career, with operas staged in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, and the United States.
- He was a German theater and opera director, and theater manager.
- Flimm was professor at the University of Hamburg and was a member of the Academies of Arts in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt.
- Between 1999 and 2003, Flimm was the president of the Deutsche Bühnenverein (German Stage Association), 2002 until 2004 director for drama at the Salzburg Festival.
- In summer 2000, he staged a new version of Wagner's Ring for the Bayreuth Festival, and in June 2002.
- He was responsible for the scenic realisation of the world premiere of Der Riese vom Steinfeld by Friedrich Cerha at the Vienna State Opera.
- Amongst his prizes and awards are: the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanse Town Hamburg, the Konrad-Wolf-Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of the FRG) and the Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences).
- From 2005 until 2007, Flimm was the director of the RuhrTriennale, following founding director Gerard Mortier.
- He began his directing career in 1968 as an assistant to Fritz Kortner and Claus Peymann at the Munich Kammerspiele. As a theater director he earned merits in Cologne from 1979 to 1985, and as artistic director from 1985 to 2000, he made Hamburg's Thalia Theater the most visited stage in Germany.
- During the last years, Flimm has produced works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Gounod, Stravinsky, Franz Schreker and others at La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Berlin State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Hamburg State Opera.
- Artistic director of the Salzburg Festival from 2007 until 2010, he was Intendant of the Berlin State Opera from 2010 until 31 March 2018.
- With the 1978 production of Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore in Frankfurt, Flimm co-operated with Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who became his most important artistic partner.
- In 1985, he once more joined the Thalia Theatre, where he worked as leading director for the next fifteen years and which became, under his executive, one of the artistically and economically most successful voice theatres in Germany. Among his most important productions in Hamburg are plays by Anton Chekhov (Platonov, 1989; Uncle Vanya, 1995; Three Sisters, 1999), Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt, 1985; The Wild Duck, 1994), Arthur Schnitzler (Liebelei, 1988; Das weite Land, 1995) and William Shakespeare (Hamlet, 1986; King Lear, 1992; As You Like It, 1998).
- He received the title of an honorary doctor of the University of Hildesheim.
- Born into a Protestant family of doctors, Flimm studied Theater Studies, German Studies and Sociology in Cologne.
- He had positions as director at the National Theatre Mannheim and as a senior director at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (1973-74), then he worked as freelance director and director at the Schauspiel Cologne.
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