Christof Cremer

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Christof Cremer (* 1969 in Heinsberg ) is a German stage and costume designer .

life and work

He completed his training at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (Herrenschneider) and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (master class for stage and film design, graduated in 1997 with distinction). Cremer has u. a. worked with the directors and choreographers Mascha Pörzgen , Leonard Prinsloo , Robert Meyer , Carlos Wagner , Ansgar Weigner , Jean Renshaw , Roland Hüve , Brigitta Gillessen and Johnny Lloyd . He lives in Vienna.

Working as an outfitter (selection)

Ballet and dance

Since 2005 Christof Cremer has been regularly designing the costumes for the ballet interludes at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vienna Musikverein . In this context he worked with the choreographers Renato Zanella , Christian Tichy, Vladimir Malakhov and Davide Bombana . In 2017 he designed the costumes for the ballet at the Vienna Opera Ball .

Christof Cremer has worked with the choreographer Renato Zanella on many ballet productions: he created the stage and costumes for the productions The Nutcracker in 2000 at the Vienna State Opera , and Cremer was responsible for the costumes for Petruschka 2005 (under the title Diaghilew Evening ). Cremer also contributed the costumes for the ballet Mythos to the string sextet "Dionysos" by Hermann Nitsch . The choreography was shown at the opening of the Danube Festival in 1998 in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten and in 1999 at the Vienna State Opera.

play

Occasionally Christof Cremer has also worked in the acting field. At the Residenztheater in Munich , he directed William Shakespeare's Richard III. Directed by Mathias Hartmann, he performed the costumes in 1996, at the Schauspiel Graz he designed the costume design for Volker Lösch's production of Bernarda Alba's house by Federico García Lorca in 2000 and at the Heilbronn Theater in 2005 set design and costumes for Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, directed by Mascha Pörzgen .

Exhibition and interior design

Christof Cremer is also involved as the designer of exhibitions and balls. Since 2012 he has shaped the appearance of the annual New Year's Eve ball in the Vienna Hofburg , from 2007 to 2009 and again since 2015 he has designed the festive framework for the coffee boilers' ball and, as artistic director of the ball, is also responsible for the program.

Working as an exhibition architect (selection)

  • 2013: Bread and Wine , Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2013 (Asparn / Zaya and Poysdorf)
  • 2013/14: Kunsthalle Krems : Yoko Ono. Half-a-wind show
  • 2014: visual implementation of the newly designed MAMUZ Prehistory Museum in Asparn / Zaya
  • 2015: Kunsthalle Krems: Pipilotti Rist
  • 2016: MAMUZ Mistelbach : Stonehenge
  • 2016: Leopold Museum : Wilhelm Lehmbruck
  • 2016/17: Leopold Museum: Stranger Gods

Sacred art

Another important field of activity for Christof Cremer is sacred art. In doing so, Cremer takes the liturgical vestments and equipment out of the historical context into the present and subjects them to a new, contemporary look. He designed a festive robe for the Admont Benedictine monastery , a Jacobus robe for the St. Jacobus Church in Hilden , the Libori robe for the high cathedral in Paderborn , a Martin robe for the cathedral in Rottenburg and an robe for holy nail for Bamberg Cathedral . When exhibiting God's praise. Ecclesiastical textiles from Maria Theresa's time in the Imperial Treasury in Vienna were juxtaposed with four sacred vestments by Christof Cremer and the historical paraments. The preoccupation with theater and church in Christof Cremer's oeuvre throws interesting highlights on the common roots of both.

In 2017/18 Christof Cremer also designed a new edition of the lectionaries for liturgical use, which are used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

Awards

  • 2004: “Theater Oscar” for setting up Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Theater Krefeld-Mönchengladbach.
  • 2017: Nomination for the German Musical Theater Prize for the world premiere of Christian Kolonovits' BaRock opera Vivaldi - The fifth season at the Vienna Volksoper .

Web links

Commons : Christof Cremer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena Franke: Fresh, happy, Italian . In: Klassik / Oper - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
  2. ↑ "Petrushka" at 23.03.2005 | Schedule archive of the Vienna State Opera. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hermann Nitsch - biography. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ "Myth" on June 12th, 1998 | Schedule archive of the Vienna State Opera. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ stefanie.ringhofer: 2013 bread and wine. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://www.mamuz.at/de/wissenschaft-forschung/leitbild-mamuz/leitbild-mamuz-1
  7. ↑ Worldwide unique exhibition opened at MAMUZ Museum Mistelbach . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 6, 2018]).
  8. ^ Special exhibition: God's Praise Church textiles from the time of Maria Theresa. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Christof Cremer, Gewänder - Raum - Paradies, exhibition catalog Benediktinerstift Admont, 2006.
  10. ↑ Liturgical Institute of German-speaking Switzerland - Mystagogy cover design lectionary. Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).
  11. ↑ Two theater Oscars for the Magic Flute rp-online, accessed on December 29, 2018
  12. ↑ Vivaldi rocks Berlin volkoper.at, accessed on December 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer with a focus on music theater and ballet
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Heinsberg