Johannes Schütz (set designer)
Johannes Schütz (born February 12, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German set designer and director .
Life
Schütz attended the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and was then assistant and set designer at the State Drama Theaters in Berlin from 1970 to 1973 . From 1976 to 1983 he worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele , including productions by Ernst Wendt . From 1978 to 1981 he was head of equipment at the Bremen Theater . He then worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , where he again worked particularly with Wendt.
From 1986 Schütz was chief stage designer at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . This is where the intensive collaboration with director Jürgen Gosch began . When Gosch moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1993 , he worked there and later on various other stages as a set designer for Gosch's productions.
Schütz made his debut as a director at the Düsseldorf Opera with Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis . He also provided the equipment for his productions at the music theater and spoken theater. From 1992 to 1998 he was Professor at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe and Associate Professor at the University of Design .
Awards
Gosch and Schütz jointly received the Berlin Theater Prize in 2009 . In 2010 Schütz was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in the Best Equipment category. His work on the show was appreciated by so Thomas Vinterberg piece The funeral at the Burgtheater . In 2015 he received the Theater Prize Hamburg - Rolf Mares in the field of Outstanding Stage or Costume Design for Pepper Sacks in Sugar Land and Radiant Persecutors ( Elfriede Jelinek ) in the Malersaal of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus .
Director (selection)
- 1990: Iphigenie in Aulis (Düsseldorf Opera)
- 1992: Fatzer (fragment) (Bochum)
- 1996: Idomeneo (Frankfurt Opera)
- 1998: The World Improver (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 2000: Alcina (Oldenburg)
- 2003: Orpheus and Eurydice (Kassel)
- 2002: The Bride of Messina (State Theater Mainz)
- 2003: Ariadne on Naxos (State Theater Mainz)
literature
- Wolfgang Beck: Schütz, Johannes . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 658 f.
Web links
- Johannes Schütz in the dictionary on nachtkritik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theater Prize Berlin (PDF) stiftung-seehlassung.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ↑ Nominations 2010 nestroypreis.at. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ^ Prize winners theaterpreis-hamburg.org. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schütz, Johannes |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage designer and theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |