Annette Murschetz

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Annette Murschetz (born July 11, 1967 in Munich ) is a German-Austrian stage designer and illustrator who currently lives in Vienna.

Life

The daughter of the illustrator and children's book author Luis Murschetz , who grew up in Munich , has German and Austrian citizenship. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with the set designer Erich Wonder . She received her diploma in 1991. From 1987 to 1992 she also worked as a Wonders assistant.

Annette Murschetz designed her first own stage sets in 1992 for the Schauspielhaus Graz (“The Maids” and Marc Günther's production of “ Duke Theodor von Gothland ”). Since then she has been working as a freelancer at the most famous theaters and opera houses in German-speaking countries as well as in Amsterdam, Barcelona, ​​Brussels and Edinburgh. She repeatedly works with directors such as Alfred Kirchner , Jürgen Flimm or Martin Kušej , but also with conductors such as Simon Rattle and Nikolaus Harnoncourt , who not least appreciates the acoustic usefulness of her stage sets for operas.

Annette Murschetz has been working regularly with the director Andrea Breth since 2000 , with whom she has designed numerous productions at the Wiener Burg - such as the Akademietheater - as well as festival productions (for the Styriarte Graz and the Essen RuhrTriennale ).

From 1996 to 1999 Annette Murschetz took on a teaching position in Erich Wonder's master class at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts .

Since 2019 she has been Professor of Stage Design at the University of Art in Graz.

In addition to her stage work, Annette Murschetz illustrates books for Diogenes , Hanser , Sanssouci and Heyne publishers .

About the work of Annette Murschetz

“A dream ship has landed in the Burgtheater. A small, narrow, dark boat. High above, it hangs as if on the tip of a frozen wave that gently swings to the ground as a narrow, thin ridge, as if Annette Murschetz's stage design divides the world into spheres. Behind the ridge day, wakefulness, reality. Before him night, sleep, dream. Exactly on the dump the boat, the contours of which also look like the imprint of a large mouth that fell from heaven could have kissed the earth. "( Gerhard Stadelmaier , FAZ , April 30, 2001, on" Käthchen von Heilbronn ")

"Annette Murschetz's stage design creates atmosphere, literally gives the characters space for depth." ( Ulrich Weinzierl , Die Welt , December 23, 2002 on " Emilia Galotti ")

“To describe what Andrea Breth and her colleague Annette Murschetz. . . to charge for a single moment, one would have to be called Flaubert. Every detail has its meaning without being important as a symbol; the sum results in a compact density. "(Barbara Villiger Heilig, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 29, 2004 on" The cat on the hot tin roof ")

Important work

Awards

  • 1991: With the diploma the prize for special artistic achievements of the Federal Ministry for Science and Art.
  • 2003: Hein Heckroth Stage Design Award (sponsorship award)
  • 2013: Nestroy Theater Prize for the best set 2013 ("In Agonie" at the Residenztheater Munich).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laudation in ZEIT on the 70th by L. Murschetz
  2. ↑ https://www.kug.ac.at/studium-weiterbildung/studium/studienrichtungen/buehnengestaltung.html
personal data
SURNAME Murschetz, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich