Jan Meier

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Jan Meier (born 1969 in Lübeck ) is a German stage and costume designer .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a furrier and a degree in design, Meier discovered "his passion for the theater" in 1998. At first he worked as a costume assistant - among others at Theater Freiburg , Theater Basel and Schauspiel Köln , and from 2001 as a freelance costume designer. In 2003 he started working as a set designer - in drama and opera, children's theater and dance, in Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Klagenfurt, Linz, St. Gallen, Vienna and Vladivostok.

He designed the costumes for productions by Michael Simon ( Romeo and Juliet ) and Alfred Kirchner ( Aida ) and worked regularly with the director Amélie Niermeyer - for Fontane's Effi Briest , Shakespeare's As You Like It and Chekhov's Three Sisters . A long-term and close collaboration connects him with the London-born director Henry Mason , who lives in Vienna . Meier's debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2013 with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream was already the twelfth joint production by the director and set designer. The collaboration began with two opera productions: in 2003 with Handel's Ariodante , a production by Opera da Camera Linz at theaterspectacel Wilhering, and in 2004 with the children's opera Die feuerrote Friederike by Elisabeth Naske and Theresita Colloredo based on the novel by Christine Nöstlinger , a production by the Vienna Volksoper in the children's tent of the Vienna State Opera . A number of joint drama and musical productions followed, including Charles Dickens' Great Expectations , Shakespeare's Cymbeline and The Wizard of Oz . Parallel to his collaboration with Henry Mason, Meier also worked at the Munich Theater am Gärtnerplatz (Berlin 1920 - Eine Burleske) , at the Theater der Jugend Wien (Lindgren's Die Brüder Löwenherz ) and at the Novaya Opera in Moscow ( Le nozze di Figaro ) in the 2010s. . Again with Mason, he was responsible for setting the world premiere of a children's opera at the Vienna State Opera in December 2015 - for Fatima or for the brave children of Rafik Schami and Johanna Doderer .

Jan Meier has been head of the costume and mask department of the Ruhrtriennale since 2008 .

Stage work (selection)

play

Opera

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburg Festival : Short biography of Jan Meier , as of July 2015
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck