Thomas Reimer (video designer)

Thomas Reimer

Thomas Reimer (born September 1, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German video designer .

life and work

After training as a television technician , Reimer turned his hobby - video design and graphic design - into a profession. Since then he has worked on theater, TV and DVD productions. He began with camera and editing for the nationwide series of concerts for the TV Today Band Award and then for recordings of ballets by John Neumeier : Nijinsky at the Hamburg State Opera , recorded for Bavarian Broadcasting , and Illusions - such as Swan Lake for SWR and an international one DVD release. With John Neumeier's Winterreise (2001) Reimer gained his first experience in the field of stage design . For WDR he produced the filmed symphonies Jean Sibelius & Alvar Aalto , Finland - An Architectural Winter Tale and Edvard Grieg - The Story of Life . Films like Shalom Hamburg , training films for the German Air Rescue Service and some music video clips also bear his signature. He realized the TV and DVD productions of the musicals Miami Nights (WDR), Robin Hood and Beauty and the Beast .

Since 2008 he has been working closely with the director Harry Kupfer and the set designer Hans Schavernoch for various opera and musical productions, including the successful Viennese production Elisabeth .

Stage productions

• 2008 Elisabeth - Theater des Westens Berlin
• 2009 The Merry Widow - Hamburg State Opera
• 2010 Ariadne auf Naxos - Theater an der Wien
• 2012 Elisabeth - anniversary production at the Raimund Theater Vienna
• 2013 The Player - Oper Frankfurt
• 2014 Der Rosenkavalier - Salzburg Festival , also in 2016 at the Teatro alla Scala , Milan
• 2014 Parsifal - New National Theater Tokyo
• 2014 Elisabeth - Culture Square Theater Shanghai
• 2015 Mozart! - Raimund Theater Vienna
• 2015 Iwan Sussanin - Oper Frankfurt
• 2015 La Bohème - Cologne Opera
• 2016 Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk - Bavarian State Opera
• 2016 Mozart! - Tour version at the Culture Square Theater Shanghai
• 2017 The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Teatro alla Scala Milan
• 2018 WAHNSINN - the musical with the hits by Wolfgang Petry - - world premiere Theater am Marientor Duisburg
• 2018 Macbeth - State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin
• 2019 Poros - Komische Oper Berlin

Web links

• Thomas Reimer , website
• Thomas Reimer , short biography on the website of the Salzburg Festival
• Short biography on the website of the Bavarian State Opera
• Short biography on the website of the United Theaters Vienna
• Short biography on the Frankfurt Opera website
• Short biography on the website of the Berlin State Opera