Henrik Ahr

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Henrik Ahr (born in Bensberg ) is a German painter , set designer and university lecturer . He has lived in Vienna since 2005 .

life and work

Henrik Ahr trained as a chef , then worked as a freelance artist and studied architecture in Leipzig. There he began to design the first stage sets for the New Scene in 2000 , in the following year he designed the stage sets for a stage adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Roman Fight Club at the Theaterhaus Jena . His first collaboration with the director Michael Thalheimer - Liebelei von Arthur Schnitzler at the Thalia Theater Hamburg - was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen . A number of other joint works followed in drama and opera, in Hamburg, Basel, Antwerp and Düsseldorf.

He has continued collaboration with Tatjana Gürbaca and Christof Loy as well as with the Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik , who invited the set designer to Ljubljana for Brecht, Mann and Schönherr projects. At the Komische Oper Berlin , Henrik Ahr realized the world premiere of the fairy tale opera Die Schneekönigin by Pierangelo Valtinoni together with Anisha Bondy, which was highly praised by the critics and enthusiastically received by the audience. The new production of Philip Glass ' Gandhi opera Satyagraha in 2017, staged by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at Theater Basel , a co-production with the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp , also achieved great success with the press and the public .

Henrik Ahr has been teaching as a university professor for stage design at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 2010 . There he is department head for stage and costume design, film and exhibition architecture.

Acting (selection)

Opera (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015 "as you like it" - 1Blick, Hallein

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahr - as you like it
personal data
SURNAME Ahr, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg