Heiko Schnurpel

Heiko Schnurpel (* 1967 in Dresden ) is a German sound designer.

Heiko Schnurpel was trained as a carpenter at the Semperoper Dresden and worked there as a stage craftsman. In 1988 he left the GDR for the FRG and continued to work as a stage craftsman at the State Theater in Hanover . At the Hanover Theater for Lower Saxony he also worked as an actor, assistant director and director. Since then, Heiko Schnurpel has worked as a stage technician, stage manager, assistant director and director in Hanover, Gera, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and Karlsruhe. Since 2000 he has lived as a freelance sound designer in Berlin. He worked with the director Anna Bergmann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , Thalia Theater Hamburg , Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Munich Volkstheater , the Volksbühne Berlin , Sweden at the Stadsteater Malmö and the Uppsala Stadsteater as well as the Burgtheater Vienna. It was there that his sound design for Antú Romero Nunes ' production of Some News from Space was created . Further work took him to theaters in Kassel, Osnabrück, Braunschweig, Lübeck, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Konstanz, Weimar and the independent scene in Berlin. For Milky Chance's North American and European tour in 2015, he developed the stage design with impulse control. In 2018, Heiko Schnurpel created the sound design for the world premiere of the intermingled Ibsen trilogy Nora, Hedda and their sisters at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe .

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• Heiko Schnurpel at the Karlsruhe State Theater