Henrik Ahr
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)
- 2001: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - Theaterhaus Jena
- 2002: Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler - Thalia Theater Hamburg , director: Michael Thalheimer
- 2006: Rose Bernd von Gerhart Hauptmann - Thalia Theater Hamburg , director: Michael Thalheimer
- 2007: Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti by Bertolt Brecht - Thalia Theater Hamburg , director: Michael Thalheimer
- 2009: A Respectable Wedding of Bertolt Brecht - Drama Ljubljana, directed by Mateja Koleznik
- 2010: The Exchange of Paul Claudel - Schauspielhaus Zürich , director: Christof Loy
- 2011: The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller - Schauspiel Frankfurt , director: Enrico Lübbe
- 2011: Der Weibsteufel by Karl Schönherr - Drama Ljubljana, director: Mateja Koležnik
- 2014: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - drama Ljubljana, director: Mateja Koležnik
Opera (selection)
- 2005: Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi - Theater Basel , director: Michael Thalheimer
- 2008: Intermezzo by Richard Strauss - Theater an der Wien , director: Christof Loy
- 2009: Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti - Bavarian State Opera , director: Christof Loy
- 2010: The Snow Queen by Pierangelo Valtinoni - world premiere, Komische Oper Berlin , director: Anisha Bondy
- 2013: La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi - Vlaamse Opera , Antwerp, director: Michael Thalheimer (also in Luxembourg)
- 2013: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven - Zurich Opera , director: Andreas Homoki
- 2013: Parsifal by Richard Wagner - Vlaamse Opera , Antwerp, director: Tatjana Gürbaca
- 2014: Leucippo by Johann Adolph Hasse - Schwetzingen Festival , director: Tatjana Gürbaca (also at the Cologne Opera )
- 2015: La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi - Den Norske Opera , Oslo, directed by Tatjana Gürbaca
- 2016: Capriccio by Richard Strauss - Theater an der Wien , director: Tatjana Gürbaca
- 2016: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi - Deutsche Oper am Rhein , Düsseldorf, director: Michael Thalheimer
- 2017: Satyagraha by Philip Glass - Theater Basel , director: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (also at the Komische Oper Berlin and in Antwerp)
Solo exhibitions
- 2015 "as you like it" - 1Blick, Hallein
Awards
- 2003: Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen (for Liebelei , Hamburg)
- 2011: Borštnikova Theater Prize for the best set design in Slovenia (for Der Weibsteufel , Ljubljana)
Web links
- Mozarteum University Salzburg , short biography
- Theater an der Wien , short biography
- Henrik Ahr at Operabase (engagements and dates)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ahr, Henrik |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and set designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensberg |