Wolf Münzner

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Wolf Münzner (born June 22, 1939 ; † January 22, 2010 ) was a German set designer .

Life

Wolf Münzner studied painting with Hermann Kaspar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and stage design with Caspar Neher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . From 1963 to 1966 he was assistant to Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival . He then worked at the houses in Göttingen, Cologne and Stuttgart.

He was best known for his stage sets, which he realized together with Hansgünther Heyme , Jürgen Bosse , Niels-Peter Rudolph and Roberto Ciulli at all the major German-speaking theaters. In opera performances at home and abroad, he worked with Harry Kupfer (The Soldiers at the State Theater in Nuremberg), Joachim Herz (The Flying Dutchman), Wolf Siegfried Wagner , Thomas Schulte-Michels ( Attila at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe) and Wolfram Mehring (Meistersinger at the State Theater Nürnberg), later he celebrated successes with the Italian director Giancarlo del Monaco .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ obituary notice, issue 25 of January 30, 2010, page 6
personal data
SURNAME Münzner, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1939
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2010