Jens Kilian

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Jens Kilian (* 1958 in Dresden ) is a German scene , stage and costume designer .

Life

Jens Kilian was born in Dresden as the son of Georg Kilian (director, camera, producer). Like his younger brother, shaped by the film business, his grandfather, an editor and prop master at UFA and later DEFA . Kilian spent his childhood in East Berlin. In 1979 he finished a three-year traineeship for film set design at the DEFA studio for feature films under the direction of Alfred Hirschmeier . This was followed by studies of costume and stage design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Gunter Kaiser and Manfred Grund, which he completed in 1984 with a diploma thesis, which was later banned.

After a brief engagement as a film set designer and set designer at DEFA, Kilian was allowed to travel to West Berlin in 1984, where he found employment as a stage design assistant at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1985 to 1990 . Between 1990 and 1992, Jens Kilian was head of equipment at the stages of the city of Cologne, before he worked as a freelance stage and costume designer in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1992, including for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Burgtheater as well the opera houses of Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Berlin.

In 2015 he worked for the Bad Hersfeld Festival ( Komödie der Irrungen ), in 2016 for witch hunt , 2017 for Luther - the attack and 2018 for Peer Gynt.

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Nicole Strecker: "Style is Standstill" - A conversation with Jens Kilian, July 2002, stadtrevue.de ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtrevue.de
  2. ↑ a b see http://www.oper-in-berlin.de/culturebase/usergabe/operinberlin/webvisit_body.php3?user=12719&id_language=2
  3. ^ Ensemble 2016 witch hunt . In: bad-hersfelder-festspiele.de . Retrieved June 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kilian, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scene, stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden