Markus Windberger
Markus Windberger (born October 17, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian set designer and director of the Vienna operetta summer .
life and work
Markus Windberger is the son of the set designer Ferry Windberger and the ballet dancer Inge Skof. He was assistant set designer at the last operetta house in Vienna, the Raimundtheater . Windberger studied set design with Lois Egg and painting with Anton Lehmden at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He graduated as a Dipl. Akad. Set Designer in 1982. He works as a landscape painter and sculptor, advertising designer and decorator.
He made his stage design debut as a festival designer at the beginning of his studies at the international jazz festival "Wiesen" for Franz Bogner. While still a student, he designed the set for Beaumarchai's “The Great Day” at the Baden City Theater .
He worked as a set designer for the Baden and St. Pölten city theaters . During an engagement at the Bregenz Festival , he met Ernst Fuchs , for whom he then worked as a personal assistant for two years.
Michael Mohapp hired him as a set designer for his "Graumann Theater". He won the Europalia international theater competition in Ghent and Antwerp with the stage design for the production “The Merry Widow”, staged by Elfriede Mohrenberger . In 1991 and 1992 he was involved in the conception and implementation of the Lower Austrian Danube Festival in 1991 and 1992. In the course of the “Rooms in Movement” festival, he developed the concept of a multifunctional modular theater in collaboration with Eduard Neversal, which was realized in Potsdam. The resulting theater was nicknamed "Blechbüchse" by the Berlin media.
With the three experimental theme parks “Anderswelt”, “Blue Dome” and “Michelstettner Schule”, attempts were made to make theater interactively understandable for a larger audience through new play and forms of perception. With the takeover of the Viennese operetta summer, Windberger returned to operetta.
His company "Windberger Art GmbH", which was the organizer of the Vienna Operetta Summer, had to be liquidated in 2013 due to insufficient cost coverage in the insolvency proceedings. "Windberger Art GmbH" was deleted from the commercial register on September 1, 2016. FN 324288w: Wiener Zeitung No. 183 of 17./18. September 2016.
Web links
- Windberger on the Simpl side
- Markus Windberger Personal website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Windberger, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian set designer and director of the Vienna operetta summer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |