Lioba Winterhalder

Lioba Winterhalder (born March 10, 1945 in Wolfen , † September 13, 2012 in Düsseldorf ) was a German stage and costume designer who has worked with many well-known directors from German and international theater .

life and work

Born in the city of Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt , the artist from the family of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter grew up in Augsburg . At the age of 17 she designed her first set at the Augsburger Puppenkiste . After her studies and her first engagement in Essen, at the age of 23 she assisted the set designer André Acquart (1922–2016) at the Théâtre de Paris and worked with directors such as Roger Blin and Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon . One of her artistic highlights was her participation in the performance The Walls by Jean Genet , first performed in France in 1966 under the direction of Blin. Until the end of 1969 she worked as a freelance costume designer on various stages in Paris as well as at the opera houses in Lyon, Amsterdam and Lisbon.

At the end of 1969, Winterhalder became head of equipment at the Düsseldorfer Kammerspiele , at that time still housed in the Carsch-Haus , and moved to Düsseldorf. In 1971, in the last season of general manager Karl-Heinz Stroux at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , she designed the stage and costumes for Peter Handke's ride across Lake Constance . Many other works followed under the management of Günther Beelitz at the Schauspielhaus, including the world premiere of the play Merlin or Das wüsten Land by Tankred Dorst in 1981, directed by Jaroslav Chundela , with around 250 costumes. Winterhalder made the costumes for the staging of Minna von Barnhelm under the direction of Volker Hesse at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf in 1980. The work continued during the directorship of Volker Canaris . At the same time, she was hired by Peter Zadek in Bochum in 1974 . There she worked for directors such as Jiří Menzel , Jürgen Flimm , Rosa von Praunheim , Zadek himself and many others.

In the 1980s she was engaged by the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto for the opera The Flying Dutchman and by the De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam for the opera Faust by Ferruccio Busoni . She also furnished several productions at the RO Theater in Rotterdam , including 1980/1981 in collaboration with the Belgian director Franz Marijnen for A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare .

In the 1990s, costume designers for productions in Munich, Berlin Wuppertal and Düsseldorf followed, as well as engagements as a film architect and costume designer for German and international film and television productions, and since 1999 she has been a lecturer in the costume design department at the Cologne International Film School .

In the 2004 production by Friedrich Meyer-Oertel of Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den Drei Orangen in Darmstadt, Lioba Winterhalder “put the main characters in such fantastic new clothes that you can't get enough of them during the two and a half hour performance [could]. "( Heinz Zietsch : Darmstädter Echo from June 28, 2004)

Lioba Winterhalder was a member of the Association of Scene Photographers and showed her figurines, drawings and costumes in December 2005 in the Lattemann Gallery in Darmstadt. Meyer-Oertel gave the introduction to her exhibition “The Magic of Metamorphosis”. In the same year she designed costumes for the great opera Teatr Wielki in Łódź .

With a dance around the golden self , a theatrical court report using Stanislaw Lem's radio play Are you real, Mister Johns? and the court scene from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare , she presented her first directorial work in 2008 at the Forum Free Theater (FFT Kammerspiele) in Düsseldorf.

Winterhalder's style was characterized by brightly colored, opulent fantasy costumes with a surreal feel. Examples of this are the dragon in the opera Alcina , the Oberon as a rocker with elven wings in A Midsummer Night's Dream or a cyborg with cables oozing out of his head in his own production Tanz ums goldene Selbst . In 2008, the Theatermuseum Düsseldorf showed their designs and numerous costumes in the exhibition “FacettenReich”. The theater museum preserves the memory of her artistic work in its collections.

Honor

• 1973: “Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst” of the city of Düsseldorf for their stage design work, including for furnishing the Heinrich-Heine-Revue at the “Kammerspiele”.

Web links

• Lioba Winterhalder: Drafts and costumes for the European theater , on kulturpur.de, accessed on June 30, 2016
• Mourning for Lioba Winterhalder. Author (arz) , on niedersachsen.deutschland-aktuell.info, accessed on June 30, 2016

proof

1. ^ Obituary notice Lioba Winterhalder , Rheinische Post from September 22, 2012, accessed on June 30, 2016
2. ↑ Lioba Winterhalder, short biography , on emuseum.duesseldorf.de
3. ↑ Special flair - Rhein-Bote is giving away three copies of “Düsseldorf-Oberkassel - Interior Views”. The costume and set designer, a great-great-great-grandniece of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter, died the day before the book was published. On lokalkompass.de, accessed on June 30, 2016.
4. ^ "Merlin or Das wüsten Land", by Tankred Dorst, world premiere on October 24, 1981 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, general manager: Günter Beelitz, costumes: Lioba Winterhalder. At muelheim-ruhr.de, accessed on June 30, 2016.
5. ^ Minna von Barnhelm, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Grosses Haus), 1980/1981, director: Volker Hesse; Set design: Lioba Winterhalder (1945–2012) with illustrations of costume designs , on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on June 30, 2016.
6. ↑ 1980-1981: "Een Midzomernachtsdroom" (William Shakespeare). Vertaling: Cees Buddingh '. Director: Franz Marijnen. Decorontwerp: Peter de Kimpe and Franz Marijnen. Kostuumontwerp: Lioba Winterhalder. Lichtontwerp: Steve Kemp, p. 61 / "Kritisch Theater Lexicon". From September 18, 2002 (Dutch) ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Bernarda Albas Haus , 1989 Bernarda Albas Haus, Freie Volksbühne Berlin. Director: Werner Heinrichmöller, costume design: Lioba Winterhalder.
8. ↑ Lecturers: Winterhalder ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on filmschule.de, accessed on June 30, 2016. 
9. ↑ Darmstadt, Friedrich Meyer-Oertels staged "The Love of the Three Oranges" in Darmstadt. Opera like out of a picture book - brilliant farewell. Reviews of love for the three oranges . Retrieved June 30, 2016
10. ^ In the gallery Lattemann Art of Our Time, exhibition "Magic of Metamorphosis", Darmstadt. Our member Lioba Winterhalder, stage, scene and costume designer from Düsseldorf, is exhibiting. , at szenografen-bund.de, accessed on June 30, 2016.
11. ↑ "Dance for the Golden Self". Direction, equipment, text version: Lioba Winterhalder ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at forum-freies-theater.de, accessed on June 30, 2016. 
12. ↑ First performance January 2008, Lioba Winterharter, “Tanz ums goldene Selbst” (PDF) , on gegenargumente.com, accessed on June 30, 2016.
13. ↑ Theater Museum shows Lioba Winterhalder's designs for the stage. With illustration of the draft, exhibition from June 1 to October 5, 2008 , on musenblaetter.de, accessed on June 30, 2016.
14. ^ Exhibition: The monsters are greedy under the costume hoop skirt. On Westdeutsche Zeitung, June 5, 2008.
15. ↑ Advancement award for fine arts, all award winners since 1972 , on the website of the cultural office of the city of Düsseldorf.