Anna
Viebrock Stage & Costumes

Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler has taken her to numerous theatres such as the Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Frankfurt Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, the Wiener Festwochen, the Festival d'Avignon and the Schauspielhaus Zürich, where she was a member of the management team until summer 2004. Since 1994, she has worked on opera productions with the Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito directing team and designed stages for René Pollesch and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As a director, she has staged music theatre at the Hanover State Opera and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, among others; drama at the Hebbel Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Theater Basel and Schauspiel Köln. Exhibitions of her stage design models have been shown in Rotterdam, Prague, Madrid, Brussels, Ghent, Helsinki, Basel and Giessen, among others. She was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna until 2021. She has been recognised as 'Stage Designer of the Year' and 'Costume Designer of the Year' a total of 17 times. The state of Hesse honoured her in 1997 with the Hessian Culture Prize, in 2004 she was awarded the Berlin Theatre Prize and in 2013 the Hein Heckroth Prize. She received the Zurich Festival Prize in 2015 and most recently worked with Christoph Marthaler at Theater Basel on 'Der Freischütz' (2022) and 'L'incoronazione di Poppea' (2024).