Stéphane Laimé

Stéphane Laimé (* 1966 in La Terté-Bernard , Bretagne ) is a French set designer . He has been awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize and the Opus Prize for his work .

Life

Laimé was born in La Terté-Bernard in Brittany in 1966. After the end of his school career, he left his parents' home to find a path for music or art. Laimé did not complete a degree or a degree. He says he learned his job by “getting around and gaining experience”.

Laimé spontaneously worked for Manu Chao and Agnès Varda and was part of the craft team in the film Delicatessen in the early 1990s . He also worked with Royal de Luxe and was assistant set designer to Andrea Breth , Luc Bondy , Robert Wilson and Klaus Michael Grüber . In Paris , Laimé met the German director Klaus Michael Grüber, whose working method he took as a model.

In Erlangen , Laimé met Jan Bosse through a friend who was studying there, with whom he has been working on all of his productions since 1997. Among other things, they worked on William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 2007 , on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's work The Sorrows of Young Werther at the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2006 , on Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner in 2009 and on Platonow at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 2012 .

In addition to his collaboration with Bosse, Laimé co-designed the set for directors Stefan Pucher , Thomas Ostermeier and Thomas Dannemann as the main stage designer. At the Hamburg Thalia Theater, Laimé was involved in productions such as a staging of Goethe's Faust in 2004 and a staging of Henrik Ibsen's work Peer Gynt in 2009 . In 2007 Laimé received the Nestroy Theater Prize and in 2008 he was awarded the Opus Prize. In 2011, Laimé was named Set Designer of the Year for his work on Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman .

Laimé also worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Wiener Festwochen , the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg .

Staging

Laimé works strongly with the audience in his pieces. In Hamlet , for example, actors and spectators sat together at tables laid white to experience a wedding, an accession to the throne and a funeral. Simone Kaempf from the Goethe Institute wrote about Laimé's choice of works and staging: “The fact that the set designer Stéphane Laimé actually has a preference for William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov can be seen from his list of works. Again and again he [...] worked on these classics and developed their wealth of content over the years. […] Based on […] considerations, Laimé develops stage sets that change specifically in the course of a staging and often contain several aspects of content. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Simone Kaempf: Portrait of Stéphane Laimé. In: Goethe Institute . Retrieved June 13, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Stéphane Laimé. In: Thalia Theater . Retrieved June 13, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Stéphane Laimé. (No longer available online.) In: Schauspiel Stuttgart . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 13, 2014 . 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.