Set Bert Neumann died “suddenly and unexpectedly” – T-Online

The stage designer Bert Neumann, who worked for decades with the director Frank Castorf, is dead. He died already on Thursday “suddenly and unexpectedly” at the age of 54 years, as a spokeswoman for the Berlin Volksbühne, whose artistic director is Castorf , on Friday confirmed.

First, had reported about the “North Kurier”. Neumann also collaborated with directors such as René Pollesch, Leander Haussmann and Johan Simons.

Neumann designed movable Cityscapes

With partly multi-storey residential containers Neumann designed movable Cityscapes on stage. The theater audience he granted insight into foreign bedrooms and living rooms. The game of the actors behind the facades and doors of Neumann’s famous bungalows could viewers often watch only via video link.

Neumann was born in Magdeburg. He grew up in East Berlin. After a stage studies at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee, he worked at the Hans Otto theater in Potsdam. In 1990 he was co-founder of the graphic LSD offices in Berlin. Since 1988 worked Neumann and Castorf together.