Katja Haß
Set Designer
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The set designer Katja Haß and Anselm Weber staged Die tote Stadt/The Dead City and this production of Weinberg's Die Passagierin/The (female) Passenger at Oper Frankfurt, and she returned for the new production of Eugene Onegin. Future operatic projects include Elektra at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She designed neary all the sets for Stephan Kimmig's productions, the most recent being The Golden Cockerel at the National Theater in Weimar, Das Rheingold, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Prince of Homburg at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, King Arthur at Theater Basel, the world premiere of Wahlverwandtschaften at Theater Bremen, Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Maria Stuart at the Thalia Theater - awarded a »3sat Innovation Prize« and Judith Herzberg's Die Träume der Abwesenden at the Residenz Theater in Munich, which won her a DER FAUST Theater Prize. She works regularly at the Deutsche Theater Berlin and the Schauspielhaus in Hannover. She also worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Kammerspiel in Munich and theatres in Zurich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. She led the staging department at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg from 2000-2002 before taking up the same position at the Deutsche Theater in Berlin (2009 - 2011). After studying with Erich Wonder in Vienna she worked as an assistant to Anna Viebrock at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Katja Haß won the Karl Schneider Prize and productions she has worked on have often been invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin.