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Caspar Neher was an Austrian-German scenographer and librettist, known principally for his career-long working relationship with Bertolt Brecht.
Background
Neher was born in Augsburg. Their son, Georg, was born on 14 October
Education
In , he studied under Angelo Jank at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Career
He was first engaged professionally by the Munich Kammerspiele in , although his designs for its production of Brecht&#;s Drums in the Night were rejected. On 18 August , Neher married Erika Tornquist in Graz. In autumn , Neher became the staff designer at the Berlin Staatstheater.
A year later, he became head of design at the Grillo-Theater in Essen, Germany, where he designed 8 operas and 11 plays.
He died in Vienna.
(All plays by Bertolt Brecht unless otherwise stated)
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist at the Berlin Staatstheater.
Director Jürgen Fehling
In the Jungle at the Residenztheater in Munich
The Life of Edward II of England at the Munich Kammerspiele.
Director Brecht
Jungle: Decline of a Family
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Designing ‘Good Theatre’
Caspar Neher (–)
An Introduction by Gavin Plumley
For Bertolt Brecht, theatre needed to appeal ‘less to the feelings than to the spectator’s reason’. In his productions during the s and early s, the principle was demonstrated by reduced but resolutely focussed visual means. ‘A number of stage designers feel they have achieved their aim if you can look at the stage and believe you are in a real place in real life’, he claimed. ‘What they ought to be doing instead is to make you believe you are in a good theatre.’
Brecht’s long-term collaborator and designer was Caspar Neher. Schoolmates and then equally committed socialists after World War I, Brecht and Neher’s careers emerged in parallel. Neher had originally imagined himself as a writer, but, having entered the Munich Academy in , he became a stage designer, esta
Caspar Neher:
Summer
Neher designs the costumes for G. W. Pabst's film treatment of The Threepenny Opera.
6 February
Brecht directs Man Equals Man at the Staatstheater, with Neher's set.
29 May
Leos Janácek's From the House of the Dead opens at the Kroll Oper.
21 December
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny opens at Theater am Kurfürstendamm. Neher and Brecht codirects.
17 January
The Mother opens at the Komödienhaus.
10 March
Premiere of the opera Die Bürgschaft, music by Kurt Weill and libretto by Neher, at Stadtische Oper. The production is conducted by Fritz Stiedry and directed by Carl Ebert with designs by Neher.
28 September
Verdi's Ballo in Maschera opens at the Stadtische Oper, directed by Carl Ebert and designed by Neher.
December
Hans Curjel stages a shortened version of Mahagonny at th Salle Gaveau in Paris, with Neher's sets.
22 December
At the Volksbühne, Heinz Hilpert stages Oliver Cromwell's Sendung by the nationalist playwright Walter Gilbrecht, with Neher's design.
18 February
Kurt Weill's opera (libretto by Georg Kaiser) Silver Lake opens at the Altes T
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