Ulrich Schneider

Ulrich Schneider was born in Hamm, Westphalia, in 1962. He studied mining and theater and event technology in Aachen and Berlin. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at the Schauspielhaus Cologne, most recently as lighting director.

From 1995 to 1999, he worked as lighting director at the Berlin Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz under artistic director Frank Castorf. From 2001 to 2014, he was lighting designer and lighting director for the Nibelungen Festival in Worms. He held the same position at the Bad Hersfeld Festival from 2015 to 2019. Since January 1, 2020, he has been head of lighting and lighting designer at the Mainz State Theater.

Since 1999, he has been working as a freelance lighting designer and set designer for opera, musical, theater, and dance productions, as well as in the field of museum and exhibition lighting.

He has worked with directors such as Christoph Marthaler, Lars Ole Walburg, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Karin Baier, Frank Castorf, Johann Kresnik, Karoline Gruber, Christoph Schlingensief, Vera Nemirowa, and Gil Mehmert for the Vienna State Opera, the Burgtheater Vienna, the Korean National Opera in Seoul, the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Theater Basel, Kampnagel Hamburg, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Aalto Oper Essen, Opéra de Metz, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Oper Graz, and Bad Hersfelder Festspiele.

In recent years, he has also been responsible for lighting design for world premieres such as Orlando by Olga Neu.