Voxi Bärenklau
Lighting Designer
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Voxi Bärenklau has been working as a cameraman for film and television since 1987, with directors including Helge Schneider, Christoph Schlingensief and Adolf Winkelmann and as a lighting and video designer for plays and opera since 2002. Schlingensief engaged him as a lighting designer and cameraman in 2000 at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Their productions included a new Parsifal in Bayreuth. He has worked closely with Kay Voges for some time, including productions of Borderline Prozession, which was invited to the 2017 Berlin Theatertreffen, and Der Freischütz and Aida at the Staatsoper in Hannover, Das 1. Evangelium at Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Volksbühne in Berlin and Die Parallelwelt / The Parallel World at the Berlin Ensemble and Schauspiel Dortmund. He was awarded the Gold 2002 German Short Film Prize for his and Richard Lehun's short film Fetisch. He worked as a witness and cameraman on the documentary Wunder der Wirklichkeit / The Miracle of Reality with Thomas Frickel, which won the 2017 Hessen Film Prize. He has been teaching digital film at FH Dortmund's Design Department and from 2008 to 2010 he was artistic assistant and cameraman involved in setting up the Institute for Moving Image Media at the Dortmunder U under Adolf Winkelmann's direction. A synaesthete, he founded the Research Institute for Synaesthesia and Media in Berlin (ism-berlin.net) with the Swiss artist Raoul Marek in 1999.