Volker Hintermeier

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Volker Hintermeier (* 1968 in Donauwörth ) is a German set designer who mainly works at the Vienna Burgtheater .

Life

Hintermeier originally wanted to be a painter , but his parents recommended a craft to be on the safe side. After graduating from high school, he finally completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter , helped a set designer with his models and then studied stage design and costume at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Create

From 2002 to 2005 he was head of equipment at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he a. a. worked with Helge Schneider . In 2002 he realized the opening production of the Ruhrtriennale - Deutschland Deine Lieder . From 2005 to 2009 he worked as chief stage designer at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , and since then he has mainly worked for the Burgtheater . He also designed sets for Schauspiel Frankfurt , Schauspiel Köln , Schauspiel Leipzig and Schauspiel Stuttgart , for the Theater Oberhausen , the Vienna Volkstheater , the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich and the Lucerne Theater , as well as for the Dresden State Theater .

Hintermeier and the directors Jürgen Kruse and Matthias Hartmann have been working together for many years . He accompanied the latter from Bochum via Zurich to Vienna. With Hartmann at the director's desk, he also took on opera equipment for the first time, first in 2003 at the Zurich Opera House for Smetana Sold Bride , there in 2006 for d'Alberts Tiefland and in 2008 for Bizet's Carmen and in 2009 at the Vienna State Opera for Lady Macbeth von Mzensk by Dmitri Shostakovich . Tiefland was also shown at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2008 . He also designed the sets for Volker Schlöndorff's productions of Carmen and Katja Kabanowa in St. Petersburg . The Carmen was also at the 2012 Lake Festival Berlin shown.

Hintermeier made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2007 with the set for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream , directed by Christian Weise . His first productions at the Burgtheater were Faust I and Faust II , again with Hartmann as director.

In the 2013–14 season he took part in the contemporary witness production The Last Witnesses by Doron Rabinovici and Matthias Hartmann at the Burgtheater in Vienna ; the production related to the November pogroms in 1938 , was highly valued by the public and the press and was invited to the 2014 Berlin Theatertreffen .

Works (selection)

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : The abandoned catwalks of a set artist , January 11, 2006
  2. ↑ Ralf Schnettkers: Ostermaiers "It's time. ABRISS" . October 15, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed December 2, 2019]).
  3. ^ Alexander Jürgs: Closed Society - Schauspiel Frankfurt - Johanna Wehner remodels Jean Paul Sartre's classics. Accessed December 1, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hintermeier, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Donauwörth