Rolf Langenfass

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Rolf Langenfass (born June 9, 1944 in Bayrischzell , Germany , † April 20, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian costume and set designer of German origin.

Life

Vienna Central Cemetery - honorary grave of Rolf Langenfass

After graduating from high school, Langenfass studied theater studies in Munich . He received his training as a costume and set designer at the Wimbledon School of Art in London . Since 1975 he lived in Vienna and worked many times in Austria , e.g. B. for the Vienna State Opera , the Vienna Volksoper , the Theater an der Wien , the Burgtheater and the Vienna Volkstheater and also received Austrian citizenship. He also took part in the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals and the Munich Opera Festival and was closely associated with the Mörbisch Seefestspiele and the Graz Opera . He has also received invitations to the opera houses in Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Cologne , Munich , Berlin , Gothenburg , Oslo , Basel , Zurich and in New York to the Metropolitan Opera and City Opera .

Opened in April 2004, Sisi Museum in the Vienna Hofburg he designed with significant, as is the renovation in June 2009. From 1993 to 2011 was a long barrel outfitter of the Mörbisch Lake Festival , he moved in 2012 in the battle its name from the Gypsy Baron production back. From 1997 until his death he acted as head of equipment for the theater in der Josefstadt .

11 February 2011 Long Barrel went with Michael Eibl in Mirabell Palace a registered partnership one. The ceremony was chaired by the Mayor of Salzburg , Heinz Schaden , and witnesses were Otto Schenk and Helmuth Lohner .

In 2012 Rolf Langenfass died in Vienna after a long illness.

Awards

Web links

  • Rolf Langenfass (picture on the occasion of the awarding of the Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna in June 2005 (far right); accessed on April 22, 2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the article in the English Wikipedia: Wimbledon College of Art .
  2. ↑ Costume and stage designer Rolf Langenfass is dead In: Die Presse from April 20, 2012 (accessed on April 22, 2012).
  3. ^ Seefestspiele Mörbisch: Langenfass goes , burgenland.orf.at, April 11, 2012
  4. ^ Rolf Langenfass marries Michael Eibl , salzburg.orf.at, February 11, 2011
  5. ↑ Set designer Rolf Langenfass died , wien.orf.at, April 20, 2012
  6. ^ Vienna award for Rolf Langenfass In: Rathauskorrespondenz from June 22, 2005 (accessed on April 22, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Long barrel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian costume and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayrischzell
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2012
Place of death Vienna