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Jan Pappelbaum (* 1966 in Dresden ) is a German set designer .

Life

From 1988 to 1995 Pappelbaum studied architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 1990 to 1993 he was director of the student theater. In 1993 he was Dieter Klaß's assistant at the Weimar Art Festival . He worked repeatedly with the directors Thomas Ostermeier , Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster . From 1998 to 1999 he was a set designer at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . From 1999 to 2001 he was head of equipment and set designer at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt.

Pappelbaum has been the head of equipment and stage design at the Schaubühne Berlin since 2001 . At the Schaubühne Berlin, he designed the sets for, among others, Die Arabische Nacht by Roland Schimmelpfennig , Die Heiligen Johanna der Schlachthöfe by Bertolt Brecht , Nora by Henrik Ibsen , Woyzeck by Georg Büchner , Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Othello by William Shakespeare and Ein Volksfeind by Henrik Ibsen.

Productions

• 1995 Christmas with Ivanows by Aleksandr Vvedenski, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1996 Stella or The Last Day of Miss Sara Sampson based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Maxim Gorki Theater, directed by Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1996 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , Schauspiel Frankfurt , directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1997 Der Drache by Jewgeni Schwarz , Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1997 Everything will be fine by Matthias Altenburg (world premiere), Theater Bremen , Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1997 Man is Man of Bertolt Brecht , barrack at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , directed by Thomas Ostermeier Meier
• 1997 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1997 Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen , Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1998 Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare , Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1998 Below the belt by Richard Dresser, barracks at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 1998 The Lost Word by Gion Mathias Cavelty (world premiere), Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Christian Tschirner and Paul Viebeg
• 1999 The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck , Deutsches Theater Berlin , director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 1999 Faust I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1999 Faust II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Schauspiel Frankfurt, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 1999 German for Foreigners by Soeren Voima (world premiere), Theater am Turm Frankfurt, directed by Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 2000 Group 3.1 by Lars Norén , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2000 The contingent of Soeren Voima (world premiere), Schaubühne Berlin, directors: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster
• 2000 Die Möwe by Anton Chekhov , Theater am Turm Frankfurt, director: Frank-Patrick Steckel
• 2001 Danton's death by Georg Büchner , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2001 The Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Tom Kühnel
• 2001 Supermarket by Biljana Srbljanovic (world premiere), Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2002 Golden Times by Richard Dresser, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2002 The holy Joan of the slaughterhouses by Bertolt Brecht , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Tom Kühnel
• 2002 Nora von Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2003)
• 2003 Request concert by Franz Xaver Kroetz , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2003 Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2003 Suburban Motel 1-6 by George F. Walker, Schaubühne Berlin, directors: Thomas Ostermeier, Armin Petras and Enrico Stolzenburg
• 2003 Der Würgeengel by Karst Woudstra, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2004 The System 1 / Electronic City by Falk Richter , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Tom Kühnel
• 2004 Das System 2 / Unter Eis by Falk Richter (world premiere), Schaubühne Berlin, director: Falk Richter
• 2004 Das System 3 / Amok - Fewer emergencies by Falk Richter, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Falk Richter
• 2004 The System 4 / Hotel Palestine by Falk Richter (world premiere), Schaubühne Berlin, director: Falk Richter
• 2004 Lulu by Frank Wedekind , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2004 Master builder Solness by Henrik Ibsen, Burgtheater Vienna, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2004 Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg (world premiere), Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2005 Bombed by Sarah Kane , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2005 The Stupidity by Raffael Spregelburd, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Tom Kühnel
• 2005 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2006)
• 2006 Elektra has to mourn by Eugene O'Neill , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2006 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne Berlin, direction and choreography: Thomas Ostermeier and Constanza Macras
• 2007 The cat on the hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2007 Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2007 In a state of emergency by Falk Richter, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Falk Richter
• 2008 DIE STADT und DER SCHNITT by Martin Crimp (world premiere) and Mark Ravenhill , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2008 Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2009 John Gabriel Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2010 The Americas - War of the Worlds by Patrick Wengenroth, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Patrick Wengenroth
• 2010 Othello by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2011 Maß für Maß by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2012 An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2013 Death in Venice / Kindertotenlieder based on Thomas Mann and Gustav Mahler , Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier
• 2015 Richard III. by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne Berlin, director: Thomas Ostermeier

Exhibitions

• 2009 Jan Poplar tree. Stages - Stages - Scenerom , National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design , Oslo
• 2011 Jan Poplar tree. Scenography , Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology , Krakow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anke Dürr: Magisches Loch   in: Kultur SPIEGEL, February 2015 (Issue 2), p. 36 ( online ) (accessed April 11, 2015)

literature

Anja Dürrschmidt (editor): A whole for the individual. Jan Pappelbaum - stages. Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-934344-82-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Pappelbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• 30 stage designers in German-speaking theater: Jan Pappelbaum Page from the Goethe Institute
• Jan Pappelbaum Page from the Schaubühne Berlin