Katharina Faltner

Katharina Faltner (* 1982 in Passau ) is a German stage designer.

After studying stage and costume design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts , Katharina Faltner became an artistic assistant for Stéphane Laimé at the Burgtheater Vienna under the direction of Jan Bosse and Matthias Hartmann . Here she designed the set for the Austrian premiere of Laura Naumann's humility before your deeds baby (directed by Alexander Ratter).

With Laimé, she also created the set for Stefan Pucher's Woyzeck production at the Zurich Theater . The world premiere of Endlich Kokain by Joachim Lottmann, directed by Pedro Martins Beja, took her to the Bremen Theater . She designed the stage for Arno Waschk's production of The American Who First Discovered Columbus at the Darmstadt State Theater . She created the costume design for Philipp Rosendahl's robber production at the beginning of the 2016/17 season at the Kassel State Theater. For the director and author Nora Abdel-Maksoud she regularly takes on the equipment, including for Mad Madams at the Neue Theater Halle , she called him Tico at the Munich Volkstheater and The Making-of at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin.

Katharina Faltner has been working with the director Anna Bergmann since 2013 ; she created the stage for the productions Homo Faber at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , Fräulein Julie and Madame Bovary at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna , and Antigone in Karlsruhe. In autumn 2016 she realized the space for an opera production for the first time at the Berlin State Opera for La Douce based on Dostoyevsky's Die Softie .

For her stage set for the world premiere of the interlocking Henrik Ibsen trilogy Nora, Hedda and their sisters at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in October 2018, Faltner designed a simultaneous stage with two levels and about twelve interleaved rooms, which are initially assigned to the main characters and thus the narrative allow three parts in parallel; these spaces dissolve later and form only three blocks. In the review review on nachtkritik.de Christian Mayer is quoted from Welt Plus , who wrote of a “spectacular stage design”. The Germany radio writes for stage setup: "You can speak, follow three interlocking stories woven at the same time and gets the chance to experience the same moments despite differences between individual cases. The three-piece staff do gymnastics in this labyrinth on two levels, which leads to interesting encounters and lots of new, unexpected constellations: A few steps to the right - and Nora slides into Hedda Gabler's area. A few steps up - and the woman from the sea is stranded in the nursery of Nora's offspring. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile on the website of the Karlsruhe State Theater
2. ↑ Manfred Jahnke: Gigantic hidden object. "The German Stage" from October 7, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018.
3. ^ Elisabeth Maier: Breaking out of the marriage cage. From: nachtkritik.de, accessed on December 18, 2018
4. ↑ Cornelie Ueding: Ibsen's women in a marriage cage. On: deutschlandfunk.de from October 8, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018.