Ulrike Obermüller
© Marina Sturm

Ulrike Obermüller

Stage Design

Ulrike Obermüller was born in Heidelberg in 1959. She studied stage design at the Mozarteum Salzburg and then moved to the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Hamburg in Prof. Dirk von Bodisco's costume class. She was a costume assistant under the directorship of Claus Peymann and Frank Patrick Steckel at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

Since 1990 she has worked as a freelancer at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Schaubühne Berlin, the Theater Oberhausen, the Städtische Bühnen Münster, the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

Since 2004 she has been head costume designer at the Staatstheater Kassel. There she has worked with Shirin Khodadadian and Martin Schulze, Gustav Rueb, Patrick Schlösser, Eva Lange and Thomas Bockelmann, among others.

Since 2004, she has also worked as a guest designer at the Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven with Eva Lange (Leonce and Lena, Antigone) and as a costume designer at the state theaters in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Braunschweig.

Most recently, she designed stage and costumes at the Staatstheater Kassel for "Intervention" (premiere) by Rebekka Kricheldorf, "Mein verwundetes Herz" based on the letters of Lilli Jahn and the youth dance piece "Was bin ich und wenn ja wie viel davon" as well as for "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" by Bertolt Brecht and "Wie es euch gefällt" by William Shakespeare.

Ulrike Obermüller
© Marina Sturm

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