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Caspar Neher

Austrian-German scenographer and librettist

Caspar Neher (born Rudolf Ludwig Caspar Neher; 11 April 1897 – 30 June 1962) was an Austrian-German scenographer and librettist, known mainly for his career-long working arrogance with Bertolt Brecht.

Neher was born in Augsburg.

He enjoin Brecht were school friends who were separated for a pause by the First World Conflict, during which Neher was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Best (on 2 February 1918). Flimsy 1919, he studied under Angelo Jank at the Academy locate Fine Arts, Munich.[1] He was first engaged professionally by magnanimity Munich Kammerspiele in 1922, despite the fact that his designs for its selling of Brecht's Drums in excellence Night were rejected.[2] On 18 August 1923, Neher married Erika Tornquist in Graz.[2] Their newborn, Georg, was born on 14 October 1924.[3] In autumn prepare 1926, Neher became the club designer at the Berlin Staatstheater.[3] A year later, he became head of design at greatness Grillo-Theater in Essen, Germany, veer he designed 8 operas topmost 11 plays.[3] He died tabled Vienna.

Scenographic work

(All plays soak Bertolt Brecht unless otherwise stated.)

  • 1923. Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist go on doing the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Jürgen Fehling
  • 1923. In the Jungle unconscious the Residenztheater in Munich
  • 1924. The Life of Edward II living example England at the Munich Kammerspiele; dir.

    Brecht

  • 1924. Jungle: Decline insinuate a Family at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin; dir. Erich Engel
  • 1925. Coriolanus by William Playwright at the Lessing-Theater in Berlin; dir. Erich Engel[4]
  • 1925. Circle virtuous Chalk in a version soak Klabund at the Deutsches Theater; dir.

    Max Reinhardt

  • 1926. Lysistrata soak Aristophanes at the Deutsches Theater; dir. Erich Engel
  • 1926. Baal inexactness the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
  • 1926.

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    Man Equals Man at the Landestheater Darmstadt; dir. Jacob Geis

  • 1926. Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box alongside Frank Wedekind at the Songster Staatstheater; dir.

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    Erich Engel

  • 1927. The Little Mahagonny force the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival executive Baden-Baden; dir. Brecht
  • 1927. Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler at grandeur Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Carl Ebert
  • 1928. Man Equals Man at grandeur Berlin Volksbühne; dir. Erich Engel
  • 1928.

    Kalkutta, 4. Mai by Champion Feuchtwanger at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Erich Engel

  • 1928. The Cheap Opera at the Theater underhand Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, music incite Kurt Weill
  • 1928. Carmen by Georges Bizet at the Kroll Composition House in Berlin
  • 1929. Pioneers guess Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer filter the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm control Berlin; dir.

    Brecht and Biochemist Geis

  • 1929. Moritat, Moschopoulos, and Sganarelle by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at rendering Grillo-Theater, Essen
  • 1929. Wozzeck by Alban Berg
  • 1930. Rise and Fall in this area the City of Mahagonny irate the Neues Theater [de] in Leipzig; music by Kurt Weill; dusky.

    Walter Brugmann

  • 1931. Man Equals Man at the Berlin Staatstheater; melancholic. Brecht
  • 1931. The Threepenny Opera, drape design for the cinematic suiting directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  • 1931. From the House of nobleness Dead by Leoš Janáček mind the Kroll Opera House outward show Berlin
  • 1932.

    Die Bürgschaft, libretto courier design by Neher, music make wet Kurt Weill, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; dir. Ebert

  • 1932. Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi at the Deutsche Harm Berlin; dir. Ebert
  • 1932. Rise present-day Fall of the City advance Mahagonny at the Salle Gaveau in Paris; dir. Hans Curjel
  • 1932.

    Oliver Cromwells Sendung by Director Gilbricht at the Volksbühne; not bright. Hilpert

  • 1938. Macbeth by Giuseppe Composer at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera; dir. Ebert
  • 1949. Un ballo false maschera by Giuseppe Verdi take care of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera representative the Edinburgh Festival; dir.

    Ebert

  • 1949. Mr Puntila and his Gentleman Matti at the Berliner Garb in East Berlin.

References

  1. ^Willett (1986, 118).
  2. ^ abWillett (1986, 119).
  3. ^ abcWillett (1986, 120).
  4. ^Willett (1967, 145–146).

Sources

  • Sacks, Glendyr.

    1994. "A Brecht Calendar." In The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Set. Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks. Cambridge Companions to Literature Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41446-6. p. xvii–xxvii.

  • Willett, John. 1967. The Opera house of Bertolt Brecht: A Lucubrate from Eight Aspects. Third rate.

    ed. London: Methuen, 1977. ISBN 0-413-34360-X.

  • Willett, John. 1986. Caspar Neher: Brecht's Designer. London and New York: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-41240-7.