Joachim Barth (lighting designer)
Joachim Barth (born in Nordhausen ) is a German lighting designer who works in opera , ballet , drama and vaudeville .
life and work
Barth studied economics at the Universities of Bochum and Wuppertal , as well as theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
As a lighting designer , he has taken on around a hundred productions so far, including a. with the directors Juri Lyubimow (Moscow), Andrej Woron (Berlin), Rafael Aguilar (Madrid), as well as with Robert Wilson , Peter Brook , Antonio Gades and Peter Mussbach . For many years he was the technical director of Mbongeni Ngema's group of Committed Artists in Johannesburg . He has had a close artistic partnership with Peter Stein since 2000, and he also took over the technical management of his mega-projects Faust I and Faust II (2000, Expo 2000 in Hanover) and Wallenstein (2007, Berliner Ensemble in the Kindl brewery) . Since then he has accompanied Stein on almost all guest productions in Italy, at the Salzburg Festival , at the Vienna Burgtheater , in Zurich and Moscow.
Barth also acted as organizational and technical director for numerous theater guest performances at major festivals around the world. He was the technical and venue manager at a number of event institutions, such as the Arena Berlin , and at festivals such as the Munich Biennale . He is currently the managing partner of the Berlin Admiralspalast , whose remodeling and renovation he was jointly responsible for from 2002 until the reopening in 2006. He is also a permanent member of the Burgtheater .
Light design for Peter Stein productions
play
- 2000 Faust I and Faust II - Expo 2000 Hanover (also technical management)
- 2007 Wallenstein - Berliner Ensemble in the Kindl Brewery (also technical management)
- 2008 The Broken Jug - Berliner Ensemble
- 2009 I Demoni - San Pancrazio and on a world tour
- 2011 Oedipus on Kolonos - Salzburg Festival
- 2013 König Lear - Burgtheater Vienna
Opera
- 2002 Parsifal - Salzburg Easter Festival
- 2011 Macbeth (Verdi) - Salzburg Festival , then also at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
- 2013 Don Carlos - Salzburg Festival
- 2011 Die Nase - Zurich Opera House , then also at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
- 2014 Aida - Stanislavsky and Nemirovich Danchenko Music Theater in Moscow
- 2014 Fierrabras - Salzburg Festival
- 2016 The Magic Flute - La Scala in Milan
Web links
- Joachim Barth , short biography of the Salzburg Festival
- Opera Base , listing of some of Barth's works
- Planet Opera , listing of some of Barth's works
Individual evidence
- ↑ People in the Burgtheater , accessed on March 14, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhausen |