Bernhard Siegl
Set Designer
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Augsburg born Bernhard Siegl studied set, costume and painting scenery at the University for the Fine Arts in Dresden. He's been working as a free-lance set and costume designer since 2000, with directors and producers including Miriam Tscholl, Burghart Klaußner, Tilo Nest, Barbara Weber, Katja Ott, Uwe Gössel, Arved Schultze, Stephan Müller and Fatih Akin. He also enjoys a close working relationship with Manuel Schmitt, with whom he stages this new production of Rossini's Tancredi, following on from their first work for Frankfurt in 2023, a Britten Prodigal Son / Burning Fiery Furnace double bill in the Bockenheimer Depot, and they return in 2026/27 for a new production of Chausson's Le roi Arthus. They've worked on projects at theatres including the Kammerspiele in Munich, the Musicheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, the Deutsche Theater Berlin, Burgtheater in Vienna, Schauspielhaus in Bochum, the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden, Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf, the state theatres in Stuttgart, Hannover and Nürnberg, Theater Graz and Egypt's Alexandrina Library. He also stages installations and created interiors for theatre. His own productions, for which he also designed the sets and costumes, were seen in 2014 at the Theater an der Rott in Eggenfelden (Der Drang, a play by Franz Xaver Kroetz; which was invited to the 2015 Bayerische Theatertagen – a big honour) and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at Theater Trier in 2016. Bernhard Siegl lives in Berlin.