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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Ruodi Barth

Additional information: Born in 1921 in Basel. He was awarded a scholarship to study commercial art at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, where he qualified with the final diploma. Until 1950 he worked as a freelance commercial artist. From 1950 to 1953 he worked as stage designer at the Stadttheater Basel, and then untii 1963, at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. From 1963 to 1970 he was artistic director of the Department of Stage Design in Darmstadt. Hist most important design work has been in cooperation with Hans Bauer (Barlach, Lorca, Giraudoux), Leopold Lindtberg, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Gerhard F. Hering ("Iphigénie", which was shown in Paris and Oslo), Barlog and Bohumil Herlischka.

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (The Cunning Little Vixen), 0
  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• Leoš Janáček: (The Excursions of Mr. Broucek), 0
  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• : (The Makropulos Affair), 0
  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• Leoš Janáček: (From the House of the Dead), Deutsche Oper am Rhein 0, Director: B. Herlischka,
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• : (Katya Kabanova), Deutsche Oper am Rhein 0, Director: B. Hrdlička,
  

  
  
  
• Jürgen Dreier

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (Katya Kabanova), 0
  

  

  
  
  
• Ekkehard Grübler

Additional information: Born in 1928 in Berlin. After the Abitur he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, and at the same time at the Free University of Berlin, where he studied history of art, English and drama. Then he went as an exchange student to Yale University, New Haven, USA, where he studied stage composition under Josef Albers. In 1951 he studied in Salzburg on a scholarship awarded by Harvard University. From 1953 to 1956 he was assistant to and collaborator of Caspar Neher in Berlin, Vienna and Salzburg. In 1956 Harry Buckwitz engaged him for the Städtische Bühnen at Frankfurt, and from 1960 to 1965 he was chief designer in Kassel, where he created important sets under Neugebauer, Herlischka and Christoph von Dohnanyi. From 1965 to 1967 he was chief designer in Frankfurt, where he worked above all on productions by Brecht, on Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust", and Debussy's "Péleas et Mélisande". From 1967 to 1968 he worked under Egon Monck in Hamburg, and also as guest designer for Rudolf Liebermann. From 1969 he has been chief designer at the opera of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. He has had commissions as guest designer in Salzburg, Vienna, Munich, and Recklinghausen. He has repeatedly worked for television, including the first colour production of Peter Weiss's "Marat/Sade".

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (Katya Kabanova), 0
  
  
  
• Hermann Soherr

Additional information: Born in 1924 in Mannheim. After a short training at the Bavarian Kunstakademie (in the class of Emil Pretorius), he was in 1946 employed by the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt, where he, amongst others, designed under Erwin Piscator the now famous sets for the German premiere of Sartre's "Räderwerk". He worked in Frankfurt untii 1956; from 1957 to 1961 he was chief designer in Mainz, in 1963 in Wuppertal, in 1964 with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. A guest designer, he has worked in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires ("Arabella"), and Schwetzingen ("Tasso" under Ludwig Berger). He considers the set for the premiere of "Roi Ubu" at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as one of his most important recent designs.

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (Jenufa ), 0
  

  

  
  
  
• Erich WONDER (Erich Wonder)

Specialization: jury


Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (The Makropulos Affair), 0
  
  
  
• Marco Arturo Marelli

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (Jenufa), Oper Frankfurt 0, Director: A. Kirchner,
  

  

  

  
  
  
• Liselotte Erler

Exhibiting works

• Leoš Janáček: (Katya Kabanova), 0