Susanne Raschig

Susanne Raschig (* 1941 in Potsdam ) is a German stage and costume designer .

life and work

Susanne Raschig studied with Willi Schmidt at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . Then she worked in Bremen with Wilfried Minks and went to Berlin with Peter Stein , where she was one of the founders of the Schaubühne Berlin . Many of her productions were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. She then worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (where, under the direction of Frank-Patrick Steckel, she outfitted Heiner Müller's “ Der Lohndrücker ” in 1976 ) and after a few years went to the Berlin Schiller Theater . She worked at other theaters ( Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart , Hamburger Schauspielhaus and from 1991 in collaboration with Luc Bondy and Andrea Breth at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz ), but also at the Salzburg Festival , at the Vienna State Opera , at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels , in Zurich, at the Leipzig Opera House , at the Châtelet in Paris, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (London).

Mechthild Feuerstein is one of her students . Her daughter Jette Steckel from her marriage to Frank-Patrick Steckel is a theater director.

literature

• Frank Böckelmann, Herbert Nagel: Subversive Action. The point of the organization is its failure. New Critique Verlag, [Frankfurt / Main] 2002, ISBN 3-8015-0352-6 , p. 504 (excerpt)