Andreas Reinhardt

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Andreas Reinhardt (born August 20, 1937 in Meißen ; † December 24, 2007 in Munich ) was a German professor and set designer for film, drama and musical theater.

Career

Reinhardt completed his training as a set designer at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . 1951–61 he was a theater painter, assistant set designer and set designer. From 1962 to 1964 he was a master student of Karl von Appen at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin .

In 1965 he joined Helene Weigel as a set designer at the Berliner Ensemble . In 1975 he moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic. From 1977 he worked as a set designer at the State Drama Theaters in Berlin . Since 1978 he has been a freelance set designer in Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, Berlin and many major European opera houses. He worked closely with the directors Ruth Berghaus , Adolf Dresen , August Everding , Wolfgang Heinz , Walter Felsenstein , Götz Friedrich , Boy Gobert , Hans Hollmann , Kurt Horres , Günter Krämer , Alfred Kirchner , Nikolaus Lehnhoff , Hans Lietzau , Heinz Spoerli , Johannes Schaaf and Manfred Wekwerth together.

Reinhardt designed, among other things, the equipment for Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen in Hamburg as well as stage sets for the Bayreuth, Salzburg and Spoleto festivals.

At the Bavarian State Opera he created the stage sets for Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata , the set for Gioacchino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , for Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord and for Lohengrin .

In 1994 Reinhardt took on a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked as a lecturer at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich. In 1997 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Filmography

literature

  • Götz Friedrich - Wagner director. Foreword by Hans Mayer . Edited by Stefan Jaeger. Zurich: Atlantis music book publisher. 1983. 240 p. Illustr. ISBN 3-254-00080-3
  • Friedemann Kreuder: Andreas Reinhardt's magic lantern. In: Contributions to Music Theater, Volume XVII. Deutsche Oper Berlin 1998.
  • Friedrich Dieckmann : Fantastic Factual. On the death of the set designer Andreas Reinhardt. Berliner Zeitung January 8, 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2007
Place of death Munich