Stage and costume design

Bettina Munzer

Bettina Munzer, born in Lower Bavaria, studied stage and costume design at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and then lived in London for 15 years.

She worked with various directors including Francesca Zambello in the USA, in Tel Aviv and at the Aalto Theatre in Essen (»Hoffmanns Erzählungen«), Phillip Himmelmann in Lucerne, Nuremberg, Hanover (»Martha«, »Katja Kabanowa«), Nigel Lowery in Saarbrücken (»Werther«) and Barbara Beyer in Innsbruck and Meiningen.

Since 1991, she has collaborated regularly with Brigitte Fassbaender, working in such locations as Wiesbaden (»La Cenerentola«), Braunschweig (»Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht«) and St. Gallen (»La traviata«). From 1999 to 2007, Bettina Munzer was Head of Stage and Costume Design at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. Her most important works there were a cycle of Britten works (»A Midsummer Night’s Dream«, »Peter Grimes«, »Turn of the Screw«, »Albert Herring«) plus »Tristan und Isolde«, numerous productions for dramas and dance theatre (including work with Birgit Scherzer) and three of her own directorial projects.

In between this, she has worked as a guest artist at Vienna's Burgtheater/Akademietheater, in Basel and Dortmund, and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

Since 2007, Bettina Munzer has worked on a freelance basis, including working as a costume designer for Barbara Frey in Zürich (»Maria Stuart«, »Platonow«, »Richard III.«) and most recently on »Der Freischütz« with Nigel Lowery in Giessen.

Various teaching activities have taken her to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and the Mozarteum in Salzburg.