Ingrid Lazarus

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Ingrid Lazarus (born April 25, 1939 in Munich , German Reich ) is a German set designer , costume designer and production designer .

Live and act

Due to the early death of her mother, the daughter of a seamstress was forced to design and sew her own clothes for financial reasons. As a young adult, Ingrid Lazarus studied stage design at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts and took a job at IBM Germany in order to stay afloat financially . She represented her employer at international trade fairs and demonstrated machines, among other things. After completing her studies, Ingrid Lazarus found a job at the Bavarian State Opera. There she was assistant in the equipment sector for nine seasons and learned the trade of a set designer.

While she was still working as an assistant at the opera, she continued her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum . After four semesters, she graduated with a diploma in stage and costume design and theater painting. Her first permanent engagement led Ingrid Lazarus to work as a set and costume designer at the theater in Augsburg for two years. In 1978 she was appointed to be a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, department of interior design. After the "Scenography" course was founded by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, Lazarus switched to the University of Television and Film and in 1990 was appointed professor. In addition to stage and costume design, she now also taught materials science, drawing and props for film and theater. She retired in 2004.

She had her first stage and costume design assignment at the theater in Landshut for a performance of August Strindberg's dream play . Commissions for the visual design of musical works by Carl Orff and Werner Egks followed . Her oeuvre comprises a total of around 250 theater and opera sets, including stage classics such as Faust , Minna von Barnhelm , Nathan the Wise , Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Der Revisor , Der Bajazzo , Falstaff , Don Karlos , Die Fledermaus and Rigoletto . TV offers were added late; Ingrid Lazarus made her debut in 1986 on the ARD show format Pleiten, Pech und Pannen with Max Schautzer . This was followed, especially in her late creative phase, in the first decade of the new millennium, with an abundance of offers for the scenography of individual productions as well as series, including Café Perjury , Munich 7 and Der Alte . Ingrid Lazarus also oversaw the television recordings from the Chiemgauer Volkstheater from 1995 to 2005 . In 2010 she published her book It's not all jacket like pants. The practice of the costume designer for stage and film . In 2016 Lazarus retired from the job of production designer.

Filmography

As a production designer for television, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Film and Television Design Annual, 7th year 1993/94, ed. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 71

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personal data
SURNAME Lazarus, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire