Tobias Löffler

Tobias Löffler (born 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German lighting designer who works mainly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.

Life

Löffler has been working in stage lighting for theater productions since 1988. At first he was permanently engaged at the Münchner Kammerspiele , later at the Bavarian State Theater , the Munich Residenztheater . During these years Löffler worked with a number of well-known and up-and-coming directors, such as Calixto Bieito , David Bösch , Dieter Dorn , Barbara Frey , Jens-Daniel Herzog , Martin Kušej , Thomas Langhoff and Tina Lanik , Michael Thalheimer and the outfitter Olaf Altmann , Aleksandar Denić , Magdalena Gut , Rebecca Ringst , Jürgen Rose and Martin Zehetgruber .

In 2000 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival , where he designed the lighting for Wolfgang Rihm's chamber opera Jakob Lenz , staged by Herbert Kapplmüller and Lisa Stumpfögger . He returned to Salzburg regularly for both operas and speaking pieces: in 2003 for the world premiere of Henze's L'Upupa and the Triumph of Son's Love (director: Dieter Dorn), in 2005 for Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods (director: Barbara Frey ), 2010 for Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and 2016 for Beckett's Endspiel (both also staged by Dieter Dorn). Since 2003 Löffler has also worked regularly in musical theater, including at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Opéra de Lyon and the Opéra National de Paris as well as the Teatro Real in Madrid.

In 2014 he was responsible for the lighting design of Kušej's Faust interpretation at the Munich Residenztheater.

Web links

• Tobias Löffler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• State Opera in the Schiller Theater , short biography Tobias Löffler
• Tobias Löffler at Operabase (engagements and dates)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Skasa : Here I can be - and drift , A ragged brawl: Martin Kušej lets off steam at Goethe's "Faust" at the Munich Residenztheater, Die Zeit (Hamburg), June 12, 2014, accessed on June 26, 2016.