Herbert Scherreiks
Herbert Scherreiks (born January 27, 1930 in New York , USA ; † June 7, 2016 in Munich ) was an American- German set designer .
Life
From 1945 to 1949 Scherreiks completed an art degree at the School of Industrial Arts in New York City and at the Pratt Institute . During his military service in the US Army, he was stationed in Bavaria from 1951 to 1953. From 1953 he studied for two years at the Munich Art Academy, with a focus on stage design. From 1955 to 1959 he was assistant to Helmut Jürgens at the Bavarian State Opera . From 1959 to 1962 he worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under the director Hans Schalla , then two years at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden and the following four at the theaters of Bern and St. Gallen.
From 1971 to 1979 he worked at the municipal theaters in Gießen, Bremerhaven, Essen and Wuppertal. From 1979 to 1992 he worked as a freelance set designer a. a. active at the state theaters in Darmstadt, Kassel, Hamburg and the municipal theaters in Mainz, Kaiserslautern, and Münster. From 1993 he focused his artistic work on the municipal theaters of Augsburg ( Wozzeck 1997), Neue Schaubühne Munich, Theater am Max II, and summer theater Feuchtwangen. In parallel to the stage work, picture boxes, installations and exhibition architecture are created (e.g. 1987 "Anziehungspunkte", City Museum Munich).
Scherreiks lived and worked in Munich and in Kalling Castle / Upper Bavaria.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherreiks, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German stage designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2016 |
| Place of death | Munich |