Johannes Schütz, born 1950 in Frankfurt am Main, studied stage design at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and subsequently worked with Harald Clemen, Dieter Dorn, Hans Lietzau, and Ernst Wendt. From 1976 to 1978 he served as stage and costume designer at the Münchner Kammerspiele, from 1978 to 1981 as head of design at the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, and from 1986 to 1992 he was a member of the artistic directorship at Schauspielhaus Bochum. His intensive collaboration with Jürgen Gosch at the Deutsches Theater Berlin led to many invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen. Since 2007, he has worked closely with playwright and director Roland Schimmelpfennig, for example in Der goldene Drache (Theatertreffen 2010) at the Burgtheater. In 2016, he was invited to the Theatertreffen with Schiff der Träume after Federico Fellini (directed by Karin Beier, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2015). He has held a professorship for stage design at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2010. In 2006 he was voted Stage Designer of the Year by Theater heute for Jürgen Gosch’s Macbeth. His design for Thomas Vinterberg’s Das Begräbnis at the Burgtheater won the NESTROY Theatre Prize in 2010. Johannes Schütz was awarded the Kunstpreis des Landes Nordrhein‑Westfalen in 2022 for his outstanding body of work. At Schauspielhaus Bochum, Johannes Schütz designed the stage for productions such as Die Jüdin von Toledo, Penthesilea, Hamlet, Iwanow, Alkestis, Der Würgeengel, and King Lear. Several of these works were invited to festivals and nominated for the German theatre prize Faust.

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