Wolfgang Gussmann

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Wolfgang Gussmann (2006)

Wolfgang Gussmann (born August 9, 1952 in Oldenburg ) is a German stage and costume designer.

After graduating from high school and working as a theater painter at the Wuppertal theaters for two years, he was hired as a personal assistant by the director, stage and costume designer Herbert Wernicke in January 1975 . After almost four years of cooperation (around 20 assistants at the Hamburg State Opera , the National Theater in Munich , the Stuttgart State Opera , the Schiller Theater and the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Schwetzinger Festival , the Basler Theater, the State Theaters in Kassel, Wiesbaden and Darmstadt), he received from then artistic director Kurt Horres in the spring of 1979 first independent equipment at the Darmstadt State Theater. With Jürgen Kirchhoff, he developed blood band of Athol Fugard .

Since then, Wolfgang Gussmann has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer, primarily with the directors Willy Decker and Andreas Homoki , and there have also been many joint projects with Harry Kupfer , Johannes Schaaf , Kathrin Prick and others. Overall, he gained 180 total equipment among other several times at the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Ruhr Triennale, at the Salzburg Festival , the Leipzig Opera, the Bastille and Chatelet opera houses in Paris, the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the La Scala in Milan, the Zurich Opera House, in Florence, Bologna, Venice, Genoa, Naples, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Teatro Real in Madrid as well as in Geneva, Lyon, Montpellier, Seville, Oslo, Copenhagen, Antwerp and Brussels, at the Santa Fe Opera Festival, the San Francisco Opera, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and the Metropolitan Opera New York.

Many of his productions were revived in several European, American and Japanese opera houses.

For the Ruhrtriennale 2009 to 2011, Wolfgang Gussmann acted as artistic advisor to the artistic director Willy Decker.

In addition to several critical awards in France, Italy and Spain, he was awarded the “ Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres ” in Paris in 2002 for his services to cultural life in France .

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