Eva Dessecker
Eva Dessecker (* in Karlsruhe ) is a German costume designer who works mainly with the directors Luc Bondy and Alvis Hermanis .
life and work
After studying art history and archeology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg i. B. Dessecker worked for the costume designer Moidele Bickel at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin from 1983 to 1990 . During this time she worked a. a. with Peter Stein , Luc Bondy and Robert Wilson . She also assisted Jürgen Rose and Karl Lagerfeld . Since 1992 she has been working as a self-employed costume designer, u. a. at the Salzburg Festival , at the Graz Opera , the National Theater Mannheim , the Frankfurt Opera and the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Hamburg State Opera and the Opéra Bastille in Paris.
A close collaboration linked or connects Dessecker with Klaus Michael Grüber (1941–2008), Luc Bondy (1948–2015) and Alvis Hermanis (* 1965). She also acted as a costume designer for Cesare Lievi's production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Vienna Burgtheater . At the Ruhrtriennale 2013 she designed the costumes for Robert Wilson's production of Helmut Lachenmann 's only opera to date, Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern . In December 2013 she worked on a new production of Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp together with the director Christoph Waltz , the set designer Annette Murschetz and the conductor Dmitri Jurowski . This production was subsequently shown at the Grand théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London .
Important productions
With the director Klaus Michael Grüber
- 1994 Splendid’s by Jean Genet - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin, Piccolo Teatro di Milano
- 1995 Pale mother, tender sister of Jorge Semprún - Kunstfest Weimar
- 2001 Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès - Wiener Festwochen
- 2002 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria - Zurich Opera
- 2003 Idomeneo - Zurich Opera
- 2005 Diary of a missing person by Leoš Janáček - Wiener Festwochen
- 2005 Katerina Ismailowa - Zurich Opera
- 2006 Doctor Faust - Zurich Opera
With the director Luc Bondy
- 1993 The Balance by Botho Strauss (world premiere) - Salzburg Festival
- 2010 Flirtation - Young Vic London
- 2010 The chairs - Théâtre des Amandiers Nanterre
- 2012 The homecoming of Harold Pinter - Théâtre de l'Odéon Paris, Wiener Festwochen 2013
- 2012 The beautiful days of Aranjuez by Peter Handke (world premiere) - Akademietheater Wien
With the director Alvis Hermanis
- 2011 Platonow - Akademietheater Wien, Berlin Theatertreffen 2012
- 2011 Eugen Onegin - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
- 2012 The wide country - Burgtheater Vienna
- 2012 The Soldiers - Salzburg Festival , from 2015 also at Scala in Milan
- 2013 The story of Kaspar Hauser - Schauspielhaus Zürich , Berliner Theatertreffen 2014
- 2013 Gawein - Salzburg Festival
- 2013 Così fan tutte - Komische Oper Berlin
- 2014 Il trovatore - Salzburg Festival
Web links
- Salzburg Festival , short biography of the artist (as of summer 2013)
- Eva Dessecker at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Eva Dessecker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dessecker, Eva |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German costume designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |