Kathi Maurer
Kathi Maurer was born in Munich and, after a one-year internship in the costume department of the Residenztheater, initially studied at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design in London before moving to Achim Freyer's stage design class at the Berlin University of the Arts. As a costume designer, she works internationally at opera houses, theaters and festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, the Perm Opera, the Opéra de Dijon, the Hamburg State Opera, the Cologne Opera, the three Berlin opera houses, the Bregenz Festival, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Ruhrtriennale. Further work has taken her to numerous German-speaking theaters, including Munich, Basel, Zurich, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. She has a close artistic collaboration with director Philipp Stölzl. At the Residenztheater, this collaboration included the costumes for the German-language premiere of «Das Vermächtnis», invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2023, as well as for the world premiere of «James Brown trug Lockenwickler» by Yasmina Reza and for «Andersens Erzählungen».
Productions
In poetic images and with moving music, the ensemble of actors, dancers and singers tell a drama about the unfulfilled love of Hans Christian Andersen's unfulfilled love and how the famous fairy tale writer fairy tale poet merges with one of his most famous characters, the the little mermaid. Andersen's escape from reality becomes a touching, visually stunning theatre event.
Andersens Erzählungen (Andersen’s stories)
After a quarter of a century, Brandner Kaspar returns to the Residenztheater - and how! Based on Franz von Kobell's dialect tale, Franz Xaver Kroetz tells the story of the stubborn Bavarian who won't even bow to death in the flesh, the Boanlkramer, in a very honest and touching, yet completely unsentimental and humorous way. Günther Maria Halmer also returns to the Residenztheater as Kaspar Brandner and, together with Munich film, theatre and opera director Philipp Stölzl, they will bring the «Gschichtn vom Brandner Kaspar» to the stage as a «big picture book, because the play is of course a fairy tale».
Gschichtn vom Brandner Kaspar (Stories from Brandner Kaspar)
New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s.
Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 1
New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s.
Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 2
Yasmina Reza, the celebrated author of hit social comedies such as «The God of Carnage» and «Life x 3» and bestselling novels – most recently «Serge» – has written a new play that incisively dramatises the profound problems of understanding that increasingly dominate relations between generations.
James Brown trug Lockenwickler (James Brown wore curlers)