Stefan Mayer (set designer)

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Stefan Mayer (born June 26, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German director, set and costume designer.

Life

Mayer is a son of the architect Ro Mayer and the graphic artist Marlis Mayer. After a one-year internship in all departments of the Württemberg State Theater (including with Jean Pierre Ponnelle's “Ring des Nibelungen” and as a lighting assistant with Claus Peymann's “Iphegenie”), he studied stage design with Jürgen Rose at the Stuttgart Art Academy . This was followed by some assistance in Bochum, Düsseldorf and Zurich. With a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg , he later studied lighting design at Yale University in New Haven.

Permanent engagements took him from 1989–1993 to the Stadttheater Freiburg as a permanent set designer (artistic director: Friedrich Schirmer ), 1993–1995 to Schauspiel Frankfurt (artistic director: Peter Eschberg ), as head of equipment from 1995–1999 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (artistic director: Leander Haußmann ) and 1999– 2000 for FAUST at the Expo 2000 as a set designer (director: Peter Stein). For the Freiburg State Theater he designed the entire corporate identity (including the logo and theater newspaper). From 1982 he worked with Peter Stein , Hans Neuenfels , Leander Haußmann, Jürgen Kruse , Thomas Vinterberg , Klaus Michael Grüber , Karin Henkel , Matthias Kaschig, Matthias Hartmann , Nicolas Stemann , Christof Nel , Alexander Nerlich , Christine Mielitz , Alexander Charim and Richard Siegal , Claudio Abbado and Donald C. Runnicles together. Since 1998 he has been directing operas and drama himself, while also taking on the set-up.

Places of work

He worked u. a. at the Thalia Theater, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Kammerspiele Munich , Schauspielhaus Bochum, Burgtheater Vienna, Volksbühne OST, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Theater Bremen, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Landestheater Salzburg, Theater Bonn, Theater Bern, Schauspiel Köln, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Ruhrfestspiele, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival, St. Gallen Opera, Basel Opera, Zurich Opera, Welsh National Opera, La Mama Theater NY, Maggio Musicale Florence Montepulciano, Vienna State Opera, Munich State Opera , Antwerp Opera, Volksoper Vienna and Komische Oper Berlin .

Awards

  • Theatertreffen Berlin
  • Hedda Gabler , directed by Jürgen Kruse, Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Platonov , director: Karin Henkel, Schauspiel Stuttgart 2005
  • Die Räuber , directed by Nicolas Steinmann, Salzburg Festival / Thalia Theater 2008
  • FAUST price
  • Nomination: Liliom , director: Karinn Henkel, Schauspiel Stuttgart 2007

Exhibitions

  • Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation 1989
  • Fist sketches Heide (n) Spektel 2000
  • Quadrennial Prague Richard II / Schauspiel Stuttgart
  • Symposium Kiesler - Foundation Vienna 2002
  • Interior design of the Vienna Opera Ball 2004
  • Interior design auditorium DT 2009

Teaching

  • 1998 - Lectures on lighting design and the development of the Faust Spirale with students from the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences under Prof. Eisele.

Publications

  • International theater posters, 1987–1999
  • Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1995–2000, 2000–2003
  • Salzburg Festival, 1992–2001
  • FAUST 1 + 2 in pictures , 2001
  • Peter Eschberg: Theater Maker , 2000
  • Roland Koberg: Robert Hunger-Bühler
  • Without light, without noise , 2000
  • Claudio Abbado , Riccordi Verlag, 2000
  • Peter Stein: biography, 2001
  • Stage constructions of the 20th century. Article: Notes on theater construction , 2011

Selection of works

  • Judith , directed by Jürgen Kruse (with Anne Tismer) Freiburger Theater.
  • Prince v. Homburg , directed by Jürgen Kruse, (with Robert Hunger-Bühler), Freiburg Theater
  • Seven against Theber , director: Jürgen Kruse, Salzburg Festival
  • Lonely people , director: Leander Haußmann, Volksbühne OST
  • The Taming of the Shrew , directed by Leander Haußmann, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • Faust , 1 + 2, Wozzek , Peter Grimes , Simon Boccanegra , directed by Peter Stein, Expo 2000 / Salzburg Festival / Welsh National Opera / Maggio Musicale Florence
  • Don Juan comes from the war , directed by Klaus Michael Grüber, Expo 2000
  • A sports play , directed by Christoph Nel, S, Schauspiel Kölnchauspielhaus Oper Gelsenkirchen
  • The misanthropist , director: Matthias Hartmann, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • End station Sehnsucht , Platonov , Liliom , Penthilea , Weites Land , Komödie d. Seduction , Mina v. Barnhelm , Faith, Love Hope , The Misanthrope , Three Sisters , Summer Guests / Night Asylum , Director: Karin Henkel, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Ffm. Kammerspiele Munich.
  • Die Kommune , directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Burgtheater Vienna
  • How I became a world , directed by Hans Neuenfels, Zurich Opera
  • Manon Lescaut , directed by Hans Neuenfels, Munich State Opera
  • Iphigenie , Die Räuber , directed by Nicolas Steimann, Thalia Theater, Salzburg Festival

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An architect of opposing worlds. Deutschlandradio Kultur , accessed on February 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ Stefan Mayer. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The sentimental chain dog . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1994 ( online ).
  4. ^ Stefan Mayer at the Landestheater Salzburg
  5. ^ Mayer Stefan. Bavarian State Opera, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Birgit Schmolke: Handbook and planning aid for stage structures . DOM Publishers, 2011, ISBN 978-3-938666-62-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart