Prof. Anne Neuser

Theatre Design | Costume Design

Address:

Güntzstr. 34

Room Nr. 140

Phone:

0351.4402 – 2241

Email:

neuser@hfbk-dresden.de

Website:

www.anne-neuser.de

Lectures

  • “Der spanische Stierkampf und sein Kostüm” (The Spanish bullfight and its costumes)

    Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

  • “Arbeiter-Kleidung” (Workers' attire)

    Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

  • “Die Burgundische Tracht” (The Burgundian costume)

    Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding Munich)

  • “Das Kostüm der Antike” (The costumes of antiquity)

    Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

  • “Punks und Perücken. Zwischen Tradition und Moderne” (Punks and wigs. Between tradition and modernity)

    Salzburger Festspielhaus (Festive Hall in Salzburg)

Prizes

  • NOMINATION FOR THE GERMAN THEATRE PRIZE

    for the Costume Design and Stage Setting of the opera “Der Idiot” (The Idiot), M. Weinberg

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre)

  • BAYERISCHER THEATERPREIS (BAVARIAN THEATRE PRIZE) 2010

    for the Stage Setting of “Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns” (The Merchant’s Contracts), E. Jelinek

    Staatstheater Nürnberg (Nuremberg State Theatre)

  • MENTION IN THE SEASON RECORD OF OPERNWELT 2009

    for the Stage Setting and Staging of “Le Nozze Di Figaro”

    Staatstheater Hannover (Hanover State Theatre)

Catalogue raisonné

  • STAGE SETTING for “DIE MÖWE” (The Seagull)

    A. Tschechov – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatstheater Wiesbaden (State Theatre of Wiesbaden), premiere 21.04.2018
  • STAGE SETTING for “MARIA”

    An opera by Anton Statkovski – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre), premiere 17.03.2018
  • STAGE SETTING for “SALOMÉ” (Salome)

    An opera by Richard Strauss – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover, premiere 18.10.2017
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “YVONNE DIE BURGUNDERPRINZESSIN” (Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy)

    An opera by Philippe Boesmans – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2017
  • STAGE SETTING for “MORGEN UND ABEND” (Morning and Evening)

    An opera by Georg Friedrich Haas - Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater Heidelberg 2017
  • STAGE SETTING for “DIE WIEDERVEREINIGUNG DER BEIDEN KOREAS” (The Reunification of the Two Koreas)

    By Joel Pommerat – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Hans Otto Theater Potsdam 2016
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE DEUTSCHE SEELE” (The German Soul)

    Musical theatre by Thea Dorn – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Bamberg and Bamberger Symphoniker (The Bamberg Symphony) 2016
  • STAGE SETTING for “ALCINA”

    An opera by Georg Friedrich Händel – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatstheater Wiesbaden (State Theatre of Wiesbaden) 2016
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “SATYAGRAHA”

    An opera by Philip Glass – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2016
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE 40 TAGE DES MUSA DAGH”

    By Ferdinand Bruckner – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatstheater Karlsruhe (State Theatre of Karlsruhe) 2015
  • STAGE SETTING for “EINE FAMILIE”

    By Tracy Letts – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatstheater Wiesbaden (State Theatre of Wiesbaden) 2015
  • STAGE SETTING FOR “DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE” (The Magic Flute)

    An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Theater Bielefeld (State Theatre of Bielefeld) 2015
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “PLACE ROYAL”

    By Pierre Corneille – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Münster 2015
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER IDIOT” (The Idiot)

    An opera by M. Weinberg – Director:

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2015
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “LE PROPHÈTE” (The Prophet)

    An opera by G. Meyerbeer – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatstheater Braunschweig (State Theatre of Braunschweig) 2014
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “ZUR SCHÖNEN AUSSICHT”

    By Ödön von Horváth – Director: Sabine Mitterecker

    Schauspielhaus Vienna and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg 2014
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “ANATEVKA” (Fiddler on the Roof)

    A musical by Jerry Bock – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Theater Regensburg 2014
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “RAPE OF LUCRETIA”

    An opera by Benjamin Britten – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Theater Bielefeld (State Theatre of Bielefeld) 2014
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “EINE SCHNEISE”

    By Händl Klaus – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatstheater Nürnberg (Nuremberg State Theatre) 2013
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “WIE IM HIMMEL” (As It Is in Heaven)

    By Kay Pollack – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Hans Otto Theater Potsdam 2013
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER JUDE VON KONSTANZ”

    By Wilhelm von Scholz – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Konstanz 2013
  • STAGE SETTING for “EUGEN ONEGIN” (Eugene Onegin)

    An opera by Tschaikowski – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover 2013
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE MÜDIGKEITSGESELLSCHAFT”

    By Peter Handke/Byung-Chul Han – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatstheater Karlsruhe (State Theatre of Karlsruhe) 2013
  • STAGE SETTING FOR “DIONYSOS”

    An opera by W. Rihm – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater Heidelberg 2012
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER EISVOGEL” PREMIERE

    By Uwe Tellkamp – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam 2012
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “U5”

    Pol Sax – Director: Sabine Mitterecker

    Les Théâtres de la Ville Luxembourg 2012
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “ROMEO AND JULIET”

    An opera by Shakespeare – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Konstanz 2012
  • STAGE SETTING for “ALCINA”

    An opera by Georg Friedrich Händel – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Oper Köln (Cologne Opera) 2012
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER 1000JÄHRIGE POSTEN” PREMIERE

    An opera by Franz Schubert/Elfriede Jelinek – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Theater Heidelberg 2011
  • STAGE SETTING for “ARIADNE AUF NAXOS” (Adriane on Naxos)

    An opera by Richard Strauss – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover 2011
  • STAGE SETTING for “SUPERFLUMINA” PREMIERE

    An opera by Salvatore Sciarrino – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Nationaltheater Mannheim 2011
  • WA “PIRATES OF PENZANCE”

     

    Halle 10 Fliegerhorst Oldenburg 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “HÄNSEL GRETEL” (Hansel and Gretel)

    An opera by Humperdinck – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2010
  • WA “FIGARO” FROM HANOVER

     

    Prinzregententheater Munich 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “GRUPPE JUNGER HUND” PREMIERE

    By Hendl Klaus – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Bern 2010
  • STAGE SETTING for “ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL” (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

    An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “PIRATES OF PENZANCE”

    A musical by Gilbert & Sullivan – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “VERBRENNUNGEN” (Incendies)

    By Wajdi Mouawad – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Bern 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS” (The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death)

    An opera by Victor Ullmann – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatsoper Hannover 2010
  • STAGE SETTING for “DER GOLEM”

    An opera by Eugène d´Albert – Director: Eugène d´Albert

    Oper Bonn 2010
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “KONTRAKT DES KAUFMANNS” (The Merchant’s Contracts)

    By Elfriede Jelinek – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Staatstheater Nürnberg (Nuremberg State Theatre) 2009
  • STAGE SETTING for “HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO” (The Marriage of Figaro)

    An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover 2009
  • STAGE SETTING for “LA CENERENTOLA” (Cinderella)

    An opera by Giacomo Puccini - Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatsoper Hannover 2009
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”

    By Tennessee Williams – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Bern Theatre 2009
  • STAGE SETTING for “L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI”

    An opera by Gioachino Rossini – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Bonn 2008
  • STAGE SETTING for “ALCINA”

    An opera by Georg Friedrich Händel – Director: Ingo Kerkhof, Conductor: Andrea Marcon

    Schlosstheater Potsdam, Handel Festival/Bad Lauchstädt 2009
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER MENSCHENFEIND” (The Misanthrope)

    By Molière – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Bern Theatre 2008
  • STAGE SETTING for “LA CALISTO”

    An opera by Francesco Cavalli – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatsoper Hannover 2008
  • STAGE SETTING for “LA VIE PARISIENNE” (Parisian Life)

    An operetta by Jacques Offenbach – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Bonn 2008
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “AUS DEUTSCHLAND”

    An opera by Mauricio Kagel – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2007
  • STAGE SETTING for “IL PRIGIONIERO”

    An opera by Luigi Dallapiccola – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Hannover (Hanover State Theatre) 2007
  • STAGE SETTING for “L´ENFANT ET LES SORTILLÈGES” (The Child and the Spells)

    An opera by Maurice Ravel – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Hannover (Hanover State Theatre) 2007
  • STAGE SETTING for “DAS WEITE LAND” (The Distant Land)

    By Arthur Schnitzler – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Landestheater Linz 2007
  • STAGE SETTING for “ORFEO”

    An opera by Claudio Monteverdi – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Staatstheater Hannover (Hanover State Theatre) 2007
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “ILLUSION COMIQUE”

    By Pierre Corneille – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater Bern 2007
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE PROBE”

    By Lucas Bärfuss – Director: Stefan Otteni

    Theater Bern 2007
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “TRI SESTRI” (THREE SISTERS)

    An opera by Peter Eötvös – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Theatre) 2007
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “PROVA DI ORCHESTRE”

    An opera by Giorgio Battistelli – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Vlaamse Opéra (Flemish Opera), Antwerpen and Gent 2006
  • STAGE SETTING for “AM ZIEL”

    By Thomas Bernhardt – Director: Sabine Mitterecker

    Landestheater Linz 2006
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER GOLDENE HAHN” (The Golden Cockerel)

    An opera by Rimsky Korsakov – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Kassel (State Theatre of Kassel) 2006
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “HOTEL DISPARU”

    Produced with Rebecca Kricheldorf – Directors: Erich Sidler, Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Neumarkt Zurich 2006 Sophiensaele Berlin
  • STAGE SETTING for “IM WEISSEN RÖSSL” (The White Horse Inn)

    An opera by Ralph Benatzky – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Bonn 2006
  • STAGE SETTING for “DIE HERZOGIN VON CHICAGO” (The Duchess of Chicago)

    An operetta by Emmerich Kálmán – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Bonn 2005
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE FALSCHE ZOFE” (The False Servant)

    By Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Landestheater Linz 2005
  • STAGE SETTING for “ORFEO”

    An opera by Claudio Monteverdi – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Landestheater Linz 2005
  • STAGE SETTING for “DIE FLEDERMAUS” (The Bat)

    An operetta by Richard Strauss – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Landestheater Linz 2005
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “PROVA DI ORCHESTRE”

    An opera by Giorgio Battistelli – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Landestheater Linz 2004
  • STAGE SETTING for “KAISER VON ATLANTIS”

    An opera by Max Ullmann – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Frankfurt/Main 2004
  • STAGE SETTING for “MEISTER PEDRO´S PUPPENSPIEL” (Master Peter's Puppet Show)

    An opera by Manuel de Falla – Director: Sybille Wilson

    Oper Frankfurt/Main 2004
  • COSTUME DESIGN for “L´ELISIR D´AMORE” (The Elixir of Love)

    An opera by Gaetano Donizetti – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Mannheim (State Theatre of Mannheim) 2004
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DAS WEITE LAND”

    By Jean-Luc Lagarce – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf 2004
  • STAGE SETTING for “TOSCA”

    An opera by Giacomo Puccini – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Landestheater Linz 2004
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “ICH STAND IN MEINEM HAUS UND WARTETE DAS DER REGEN KOMMT”

    By Jean-Luc Lagarce – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Sophiensaäle Berlin 2004
  • STAGE SETTING for “DER HELDENPLATZ”

    By Thomas Bernhard – Director: Sabine Mitterecker

    Landestheater Linz 2004
  • STAGE SETTING for “SCHWEJK” PREMIERE

    By Werner Fritsch – Director: Gerhard Willert

    Landestheater Linz 2003
  • COSTUME DESIGN for “EIN WALZERTRAUM” (A Waltz Dream)

    An operetta by Oscar Strauss – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Frankfurt/Main 2003
  • COSTUME DESIGN for “BLUME VON HAWAII” (The Flower of Hawaii)

    An operetta by Paul Abraham – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) 2003
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE SCHÖNE NACHT III”

    Based on the Decameron by Boccaccio – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Zurich Theatre Festival 2003
  • STAGE SETTING for “HYDRA KRIEG” PREMIERE

    By Werner Fritsch – Director: Gerhard Willert

    Landestheater Linz 2003
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”

    By William Shakespeare – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Landestheater Linz 2003
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE SCHÖNE NACHT II”

    WA based on the Decameron by Boccaccio – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    FFT Düsseldorf 2002
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “OPERATION MITTERNACHT” PREMIERE

    An opera by Richard Faber – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Bonn 2002
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “WEILS KIND SCHLAFEN WILL” PREMIERE

    An opera by Christoph Coburger – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Landestheater Linz 2002
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER THEATERMACHER”

    By Thomas Bernhard – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Landestheater Linz 2002
  • STAGE SETTING for “OTHELLO”

    An opera by Giuseppe Verdi – Director: Katja Drewanz

    Opéra Nantes 2001
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DIE SCHÖNE NACHT”

    Based on Boccaccio’s Decameron – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Sophiensaäle Berlin 2001
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “EXPEDITION ZUR ERDE II”

    An opera by Bernhardt König – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatsoper Stuttgart 2001
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “SHE WHO ONCE WAS...”

    Based on Alcestis by Euripides – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin 2001
  • FIVE SPATIAL CONCEPTS IN THE GERMAN PAVILION IN THE ROW FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC “M 20“

    Installation – “Der Winterreise” by Hans Zender 
    Installation – “Die Winterreise” by Reiner Bredemeyer 
    Installation – “Die Winterreise” by Steffen Schleiermacher 
    Installation – “Klang-Bild”, premiere, by V. Staub/J. Hechet/F. Goldmann 
    Installation – “Weill-Metamorphosen” Kurt Weill, H. Goebbels, H. W. Henze

    EXPO 2000 (Hanover)
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “EXPEDITION ZUR ERDE I”

    An opera by Bernhard König – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatsoper Stuttgart 2000
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “VINYL II”

    Kerkhof Produktion – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin 1999
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “SILIKON”

    By Gerardjan Rijnders – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin 1999
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “COSI FAN TUTTE”

    An opera by W. A. Mozart – Director: A. Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Saarbrücken (State Theatre of Saarbrücken) 1999
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “SHIT HAPPENS”

    By Gerardjan Rijnders – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin 1999
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “DER BARBIER VON SEVILLA” (The Barber of Seville)

    An opera by G. Rossini – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Staatstheater Saarbrücken (State Theatre of Saarbrücken) 1998
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for “VINYL”

    Kerkhof Produktion – Director: Ingo Kerkhof

    Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin 1998
  • COSTUME DESIGN for “L´ELISIR D`AMORE” (The Elixir of Love)

    By Gaetano Donizetti – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Oper Frankfurt/Main 1997
  • SCENERY AND COSTUMES for the MUSICAL THEATRE “DIE BOHNENSTANGE”

    By W. Reiter/R. Elzenheimer – Director: Andrea Schwalbach

    Theaterhaus Frankfurt/Main 1997
  • COSTUME DESIGN for “VOR ORT”

    By Reinhild Hoffmann – Dance/Choreography: Reinhild Hoffmann

    Hebbeltheater Berlin 1997

Vita

 After an apprenticeship as a men’s tailor at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Anne Neuser studied: 
1989 - 1991Fashion Designing at the FH Trier (Trier University of Applied Sciences).
1991 - 1995Studied Stage Setting and Costume Design at the HfBK Dresden; graduation: diploma and master class student. Her artistic approach was influenced by the assistance work  she did with costume and set designer Johannes Schütz in collaboration with director Jürgen Gosch.
Since 1997

Freelance costume and set designer


Initial assignments at Oper Frankfurt and the Sophiensaele Berlin followed by music theatre projects in the German pavilion of Expo 2000. She regularly works for operas and plays in collaboration with directors Ingo Kerkhof, Andrea Schwalbach and Stefan Otteni at the state theatres of Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and  Kassel, Oper Frankfurt, Sophiensæle Berlin, Hallesches Ufer Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Hebbeltheater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Oper Bonn, Cologne Opera, the theatres in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Potsdam, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Prinzregententheater Munich. Theater am Neumarkt/Zurich, Theater Bern, Landestheater Linz, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Opéra Nantes, Les Théatres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen and Gent.

2016Nominated for the German theatre prize DER FAUST in the categories Stage Setting and Costume Design.
Since 2016Professor of Costume Design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden