Barbara Beyer
has been artistic director of the opera course at the since 2015. Between 2009 and 2014 she was professor at Kunstuniversität Graz and trained in theatres and opera houses, including the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Carl Maria von Weber Musikhochschule Dresden musicology with Prof. Carl Dahlhaus (Promotion 1983). She has worked as a dramaturg in many theatres and opera houses, including the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Kammerspiele Berlin and Freie Volksbühne Berlin. She has worked as a high profile director since 1991, with more than 40 productions in different cities including Basel (Ballo in maschera, Die Soldaten), Nuremberg (The Death of Klinghofer, Entführung aus dem Serail, Fidelio, Der Gefangene), Hannover (Lulu, Jenufa, Penthesilea) and Bonn (Verkaufte Braut, Kokain, Votre Faust). Between 2004 and 2009 she was guest professor for dramaturgy and set design at the Berlin University of the Arts and lecturer for music theatre direction at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin. In addition to her theatre work, her research has been featured in numerous publications. Her book Why Opera? has been internationally recognized and extracts were published in the American journal Opera Quarterly. Following a further two years of research, her book The Future of Opera was published in 2014.
Frank Hänig
studied architecture and set design at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin with study trips to Warsaw, Krakow and Saint Petersburg. He was chief set designer at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden from 1981 to 1996. He first worked as a director in 1994 and has directed 15 further productions. Since 1996 Frank has worked as a freelance artist in Athens, Barcelona, Maastricht, Nicosia, Knoxville and Tennessee among others. Since 1983 he has also taught at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Mozarteum Salzburg, Skoulli-Art-School Cyprus and the University of Tennessee. He has been lecturer for set design at TU Berlin since 2007 and guest professor at UdK Berlin since 2011. His work has been presented in over 30 solo and group exhibitions.
Awards: 1990 Gold medal at the ninth international triennial for set and costume design Novi Sad, 1995 Gold medal at the eighth international Prague quadrennial, 2002 Bavarian Theatre Prize: best theatre production for Brand by Ibsen (Director: Hasko Weber).
Hartmut Meyer
studied set design at the Berlin College of Fine Arts Weissensee. From 1981 he worked with Frank Castorf at Theater Anklam on many productions, including Die Schlacht, Othello, Trommeln in der Nacht and Nora. He left East Germany in 1988 and worked with Ruth Berghaus from 1990; highlights include Pelléas und Méllisande at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Fliegender Holländer and Freischütz in Zürich. Since 1992 there have been further collaborations with Frank Castorf at the Volksbühne Berlin, most recently Sache Danton, Schmutzige Hände, Caligula/Das obszöne Werk. Since 1994 he has worked with Andreas Homoki (Don Giovanni Copenhagen, The Castle Hannover, Electra and Requiem Basel, The Magic Flute Cologne, Troubadour Bonn) and Michael Klette (Richard the Third Kassel, Torquato Tasso, Hamlet, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth Aachen). He has also worked with Reinhild Hoffmann (Don Giovanni Luzern, Ariadne auf Naxos Berlin) and with Sebastian Baumgarten (Tosca Kassel, La Boheme and Salome Luzern, Werther Berlin, The Trojans Mannheim.) Other credits include Das Geräusch Volksbühne Berlin in 1996, Peerlboot Aachen in 1999, and Die Schöpfung by Haydn in Meiningen.
Awards: 1990 set design of the year for Miss Sara Sampson from the Abendzeitung München, 1992 Friedrich-Luft prize for Rheinische Rebellen in Berlin, 1995 gold medal Prague Quadrennial for the ensemble work Bundesrepublik Deutschland with Robert Ebeling, Frank Hänig and Peter Schubert. Between 1992 and 1998 he received multiple set design of the year nominations from Theater Heute for Clockwork Orange, Frau vom Meer and Schmutzige Hände. Work as guest professor: 1997 at the Kunstakademie Dresden, 1998 at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee. Since 2002 Hartmut Meyer has been a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Jakob Niedermeier
completed a set design course at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Berlin with Willi Schmidt and Achim Freyer. After a three-year engagement as set design assistant and set designer at the Württembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart, he has been working as a freelance set designer for theatre, opera and musicals in prominent German and European theatres. As of 1984 he is also a lecturer in set design at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Dirk Thiele
studied with Jürgen Klauke and Rolf Glittenberg in Cologne. He has been active as a set and costume designer at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Deutschen Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Maly Theatre St. Petersburg, Famous Door Theatre Chicago, Burgtheater Vienna, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Schauspiel Basel, the Salzburg festivals as well as the EXPO Switzerland and the EXPO Hanover. Directors he has worked with include Brigitte Landes, Günter Gerstner, Niklaus Helbling, Karin Henkel, Stephan Pucher, Falk Richter, Andrew Aldrich and Heike M. Götze (alter ford escort dunkelblau, 2010 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum). He has worked with David Bösch intensively and notable productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and Antigone at Schauspiel Essen and The Tempest at Schauspielhaus Bochum.
Nicole Timm
completed a tailoring apprenticeship before studying costume and set design at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has worked in theatre, video/film and performance art including raumlabor, a group project on architecture and urban development. Her theatre work with directors such as Vegard Vinge, Milan Peschel, Katja Czellnik, Lars Eidinger and with the theatre cooperative Schauplatz International has been showcased at Hebbel am Ufer, the Sophiensaelen, the Deutschen Theater, the Schaubühne, the Komischen Oper Berlin, the Deutschen Oper Berlin, the Ringlokschuppen Mülheim, the Kaserne Basel, the Theater Århus (Denmark) and the festival Rencontres Internationales in Paris among others. Through raumlabor she developed diverse projects with directors Adrienne Goehler,Matthias Lilienthal and Jens Hillje that have been widely exhibited, including in Berlin, Rostock, Austria and England. She has also taught set design at the UdK Berlin. In 2012/2013 Nicole Timm was guest professor of scenography/set design at the Akademie für Bildende Künste in Vienna.
Thomas Regensburger
studied at the drama departments of the Universities of Cologne and Gießen. Since 1990 he has worked as a dramaturge, personal assistant to the artistic director and head of public relations at German theaters with stations in Braunschweig, Münster, Gießen, Oldenburg and Freiburg. Professional excursions into the academic field took him to the Humboldt University in Berlin (1995/96) and to the Queensland University of Technology (2005). In 2001 he shifted his dramaturgical focus from opera and drama to ballet and dance when the opportunity arose to share responsibility to organize and program an edition of the International Ballet Festival at the Oldenburg State Theatre. In 2004, an encounter with the then director of Queensland Ballet led to the idea of founding his own agency. From 2011 to 2017 he was visiting lecturer at the Berlin College of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Hamburg.
Bibi Abel
Marc Albrecht
Aydin Alinejad
Kerstin Berner
Frank Bittermann
Reinhild Blaschke
Beate Breidenbach
Angelika Broetzmann
Caspar Broetzmann
Thomas Dannemann
Eduardo Delgardo Lopez
Rebekka Dornhege
John von Düffel
Dani Dupont
Nurkan Erpulat
Lena Fey
Sebastian Figal
Jana Findeklee
Dr. Peter Gehring
Andrew Gilbert
Stephan Grollmitz
Christof Grothaus
Judith Hamann
Anna Henschel
Regine Herrmann
Nele Hertling
Andreas Homoki
Michael Höppner
Hsiu-Ying Hou
Hsuan Huan
Karoline Huld
Nina Jahnke
Katharina John
Susanne Jura
Isabelle Kaiser
Anja Kerschkewitz
Ulrich Khuon
Christian Kiel
Anne Klee
Katharina Korth
Andreas Kraneburg
Franziska Kronfoth
Judith Kuckart
Kerstin Laube
Emily Laumanns
Matthias Lilienthal
Stefanie Lindner
Julia Lwowski
Friederike Meese
Heiner Metzger
Gottfried Meyer-Thoss
Nicola Minssen
Martin Miotk
Fabienne Müller
Dr. Christoph Nix
Felice Perelaer
Henry Perrey
Evelyn Pfitzner
Barbara Pfyffer
Judith Phillip
Ute Pinkert
Anna- Alma Quastenberg
Martin Rink
Pheline Rinnert
Juli Rüther
Björn Salzer
Felicitas Sandor
Christina Schmidt
Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer
Alvaro Schock
Benjamin Schönecker
Ilse Schüssler
Andreas Schüssler
Franziska Schuster
Robert Schuster
Peter Schubert
Ingibjörg Jara Sigurðardóttir
Lee Sooeun
Maike Storf
Martin Stricke
Patricia Talatzko
Joki Tewes
Galizia Thiele
Katja Thiele
Andreas Treykorn
Sue Viebahn
Merle Vierck
Paula Wellmann
Stefan Wetzel
Renate Wiechers
Bo Wigget
Wolfgang Willaschek
Nora Willy
Karin Winkelsässer
Matthias Winkler
Sabina Winkler
Dr. Alfred Wopmann
Yassu Yabara
Barbara Beyer
Frank Hänig
Hartmut Meyer
Jakob Niedermeier
Dirk Thiele
Nicole Timm
Thomas Regensburger
Bibi Abel
Marc Albrecht
Aydin Alinejad
Kerstin Berner
Frank Bittermann
Reinhild Blaschke
Beate Breidenbach
Angelika Broetzmann
Caspar Broetzmann
Thomas Dannemann
Eduardo Delgardo Lopez
Rebekka Dornhege
John von Düffel
Dani Dupont
Nurkan Erpulat
Lena Fey
Sebastian Figal
Jana Findeklee
Dr. Peter Gehring
Andrew Gilbert
Stephan Grollmitz
Christof Grothaus
Judith Hamann
Anna Henschel
Regine Herrmann
Nele Hertling
Andreas Homoki
Michael Höppner
Hsiu-Ying Hou
Hsuan Huan
Karoline Huld
Nina Jahnke
Katharina John
Susanne Jura
Isabelle Kaiser
Anja Kerschkewitz
Ulrich Khuon
Christian Kiel
Anne Klee
Katharina Korth
Andreas Kraneburg
Franziska Kronfoth
Judith Kuckart
Kerstin Laube
Emily Laumanns
Matthias Lilienthal
Stefanie Lindner
Julia Lwowski
Friederike Meese
Heiner Metzger
Gottfried Meyer-Thoss
Nicola Minssen
Martin Miotk
Fabienne Müller
Dr. Christoph Nix
Felice Perelaer
Henry Perrey
Evelyn Pfitzner
Barbara Pfyffer
Judith Phillip
Ute Pinkert
Anna- Alma Quastenberg
Martin Rink
Pheline Rinnert
Juli Rüther
Björn Salzer
Felicitas Sandor
Christina Schmidt
Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer
Alvaro Schock
Benjamin Schönecker
Ilse Schüssler
Andreas Schüssler
Franziska Schuster
Robert Schuster
Peter Schubert
Ingibjörg Jara Sigurðardóttir
Lee Sooeun
Maike Storf
Martin Stricke
Patricia Talatzko
Joki Tewes
Galizia Thiele
Katja Thiele
Andreas Treykorn
Sue Viebahn
Merle Vierck
Paula Wellmann
Stefan Wetzel
Renate Wiechers
Bo Wigget
Wolfgang Willaschek
Nora Willy
Karin Winkelsässer
Matthias Winkler
Sabina Winkler
Dr. Alfred Wopmann
Yassu Yabara