Matthias Werner

Matthias Werner, born in Nordhausen, trained as an interior designer before studying architecture at the Bauhaus Weimar.

From 2000 to 2006, he worked as a stage design assistant with Jan Pappelbaum at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, the Theater Nordhausen, and the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, among others.

Since 2004, he has been designing his own stage sets and costumes at the Schauspiel Stuttgart, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Theater an der Wien/Neue Oper Wien, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Staatstheater Braunschweig, and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, among others. He has worked with directors such as Anna Bergmann, Helena Waldmann, Jan Neumann, Hendrik Müller, Neco Celik, Maguerite Donlon, Petra Wüllenweber, and Bob Ziegenbalg.

Matthias Werner also designs sets for films, most recently for Ramon Zürcher’s Das merkwürdige Kätzchen (The Strange Little Cat), which premiered at the 63rd Berlinale in 2013.