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10. Aug - 31. Aug 2025
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Heike Vollmer is originally from Lower Saxony and currently lives in Berlin. She studied costume and stage design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. As an assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, she worked with Claus Peymann, George Tabori, Achim Freyer, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ulrike Ottinger, and Jörg Immendorff.
Key milestones in her freelance career as a stage designer include work at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Hannover, Schauspiel Essen, Nationaltheater Weimar, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Bárka Shínház in Budapest, Teatrul Național Târgu Mureș, Theater Basel, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, and the Bregenzer Festspiele.
In addition to ongoing collaborations with directors such as Dominik Günther, György Vidovszky, Sebastian Sommer, Philipp M. Krenn, and Thomas Dannemann, she worked closely with director Philipp Stölzl between 2013 and 2020 on numerous theatre and opera productions. These include Frankenstein (Theater Basel, 2014), Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci by Mascagni and Leoncavallo (Salzburger Osterfestspiele, 2015 / Semperoper Dresden, 2016), and Gounod’s Faust (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015 / Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 2016), Der Phantast (Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2017), Andrea Chénier (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2017), Frankenstein (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2018), and Andersen’s Tales (Theater Basel, 2019). In 2019, she also designed the stage for Rigoletto at the Bregenzer Festspiele. For the technical achievements of this production, the festival was awarded the OPUS – Deutscher Bühnenpreis in 2020. In June 2023, her production of Dvořák’s Rusalka premiered at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
In the 2021/22 season, she collaborated for the first time with Thomas Fiedler, Jan Dvořák, and Julia Warnemünde (Kommando Himmelfahrt) on Der Freischütz at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
In the same season, she worked with director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan on Tosca at Oper Dortmund. Upcoming projects include Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Oper Dortmund, 2023) and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) in 2024.
In 2021, Heike Vollmer received a work and research grant for the performing arts from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe to explore digital formats.
Heike Vollmer is originally from Lower Saxony and currently lives in Berlin. She studied costume and stage design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. As an assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, she worked with Claus Peymann, George Tabori, Achim Freyer, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ulrike Ottinger, and Jörg Immendorff.
Key milestones in her freelance career as a stage designer include work at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Hannover, Schauspiel Essen, Nationaltheater Weimar, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Bárka Shínház in Budapest, Teatrul Național Târgu Mureș, Theater Basel, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, and the Bregenzer Festspiele.
In addition to ongoing collaborations with directors such as Dominik Günther, György Vidovszky, Sebastian Sommer, Philipp M. Krenn, and Thomas Dannemann, she worked closely with director Philipp Stölzl between 2013 and 2020 on numerous theatre and opera productions. These include Frankenstein (Theater Basel, 2014), Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci by Mascagni and Leoncavallo (Salzburger Osterfestspiele, 2015 / Semperoper Dresden, 2016), and Gounod’s Faust (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015 / Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 2016), Der Phantast (Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2017), Andrea Chénier (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2017), Frankenstein (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2018), and Andersen’s Tales (Theater Basel, 2019). In 2019, she also designed the stage for Rigoletto at the Bregenzer Festspiele. For the technical achievements of this production, the festival was awarded the OPUS – Deutscher Bühnenpreis in 2020. In June 2023, her production of Dvořák’s Rusalka premiered at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
In the 2021/22 season, she collaborated for the first time with Thomas Fiedler, Jan Dvořák, and Julia Warnemünde (Kommando Himmelfahrt) on Der Freischütz at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
In the same season, she worked with director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan on Tosca at Oper Dortmund. Upcoming projects include Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Oper Dortmund, 2023) and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) in 2024.
In 2021, Heike Vollmer received a work and research grant for the performing arts from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe to explore digital formats.
