Michael Heinrich (set designer)

Michael Heinrich (* 1966 in Munich ) is a German designer, set and costume designer. He is a professor in the interior design department at the Design Faculty of the Coburg University of Applied Sciences and dean of the faculty. His teaching focuses on design and representation, visual communication, spatial history and psychological aesthetics; his main research interests are systematics, didactics and application methodology of psychological aesthetics. He is head of the design and visual communication department at the TAC research transfer institute at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences.

Life

Michael Heinrich studied stage and costume design at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg from 1986 to 1992 and graduated with a Magister Artium degree . From 1989 to 1990 he worked as a designer for Rolf Zehetbauer ( Bavaria Film ) in the fields of film and interior design.

From 1993 he worked for many years - initially as an assistant to Peer Boysen , Florian Parbs and Pet Halmen , then in charge - as a set and costume designer for various theaters and opera houses in Germany, Austria and other European countries.

This resulted in over 40 overall plans or stage and costume sets (Wiesbaden State Theater, Mannheim National Theater, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg State Theater, Teatro Bellini Catania, Aalto-Theater Essen, Théatre de l 'Opéra de Nice, Leipzig Opera, Meininger Theater, Coburg State Theater, Concert Directorate Landgraf, Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg, Theater Halberstadt, Landestheater Detmold, Theater Hagen, Museum Mozart Residence Salzburg, Hamburg State Opera, State Theater Darmstadt, "Weimar - European Capital of Culture 1999", Trier Antique Festival) on works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Monteverdi , Handel, Mozart, Marivaux, Goethe, Lortzing, Offenbach, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Tschaikowski, Henze, Brecht, Tabori, Mann, Thomas, Wallace, Vilar and Pohl.    

In addition to numerous projects in the areas of interior design, trade fair architecture and graphics, he illustrated extensive teaching works, including the Latin book series Cursus . For his website at the time, he was listed as an "Official Honoree" at the "10th Annual Webby Award" ("The Internet's highest honor." The New York Times ) of the International Academy for Digital Arts & Sciences. Heinrich provided the concept and design for several hotel properties; In 2014, the ambitious culture and community center "LEISE am Markt" was built in Coburg under his creative direction.

In 2004 he took on teaching positions for acting and stage design at the universities of Coburg and Rosenheim; workshops at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich have followed since 2007.

Heinrich has held a professorship for representation and visual communication at the Coburg University since 2006 . From 2007 to 2009 he was the course director of the interior design department, from 2009 to 2014 Vice President of the Coburg University of Applied Sciences for the departments of communication, health and culture. Since 2016 he has been the Dean of Studies for the Design Faculty at the University of Coburg.

Others

For the Landestheater Coburg, Heinrich designed the equipment for the premiere of the musical "Dorian Gray" by conductor Roland Fister in 2013 under the direction of the then artistic director Bodo Busse.

Heinrich campaigned for the preservation of the houses at Judengasse 49 and 51, which were threatened with demolition according to the proposals of the Building Senate of the City of Coburg. These houses - house number 51 is listed as an individual monument - form the end of a long chain of historically valuable and predominantly individual monuments protected houses in Judengasse.

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  House Judengasse 49

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  House Judengasse 51

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  House Judengasse 51, back

Heinrich is married to Christine Rechl, who was born in Munich and has been working as a freelance graphic and textile designer since 1988. The two have a son and live in Coburg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margareta Bögelein: Prof. Heinrich follows Prof. Reiners-Kröncke  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from the Coburg University of Applied Sciences from January 30, 2009  
2. ↑ Professor fights against demolition . Coburger Tageblatt of April 22, 2009.
3. ↑ See also List of monuments in Coburg / J .
4. ↑ Christiane Lehmann: In Coburg it is very consecrated ... Coburger Tageblatt, December 24, 2009, p. 9.

Web links

• Website Prof. Michael Heinrich at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences.
• Michael Heinrich's website