Horst SAGES

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Horst Sagert (* 13. October 1934 in Pomerania , Pomerania , † 8. May 2014 in Berlin ) was a German theater director , stage and costume designer and engraver .

Live and act

Sagt studied from 1953 to 1958 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin and completed his studies with a diploma as a set designer. He then worked as a painter , illustrator and set designer and from 1963 to 1967 worked as a director and set designer at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Between 1966 and 1970 he was responsible for stage and costume in numerous productions at the Deutsches Theater and the Schauspielhaus Zurich . He equipped z. B. the productions by Bertolt Brecht's Turandot or the congress of the white washers , Federico García Lorcas Dona Rosita remains single and the legendary The Dragon by Yevgeny Lwowitsch Schwarz directed by Benno Besson .

For the production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Urfaust at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Edinburgh Festival , Sübers took over the costumes and direction in 1984 and designed the set for Peter Zadek's production of The Taming of the Shakespeare at the Free Volksbühne Berlin in 1986 . Since 1989 he has worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist and sculptor and has largely withdrawn from the theater world.

tomb

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Awards

In 1971 he won first prize at the Venice Biennale , was awarded the Golden Medal of the Prague Quadriennale in 1979 for the world exhibition of stage design and in 1998 received the Berlin Art Prize .

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Individual evidence

  1. artist. Horst SAGES. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on July 7, 2014 .