Jan Pappelbaum
Set designer and head of set and costume design at the Schaubühne since 2000. Born in Dresden. Competitive volleyball player and bricklaying apprentice in Leipzig. Studied architecture at the now Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and worked in student theatre. From 1993, assistant to the set designer Dieter Klaß for »Urfaust-Kubus« at the Weimar Art Festival under the artistic direction of Manfred Karge where he first collaborated with directing students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin including Tom Kühnel, Thomas Ostermeier and Robert Schuster. In 1994, first work as a solo set designer at the bat-Studiotheater in Berlin for »King Ubu« (directed by Claudia Bauer). From 1995, set designer at theatres including in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Potsdam and Weimar. Since 1998, longstanding collaboration with Robert Schuster and Tom Kühnel as set designer at Schauspiel Frankfurt and, from 1999, as head of set and costume design at the TAT in Frankfurt am Main. Longstanding collaboration with Thomas Ostermeier, first at the Deutsches Theater »Baracke« in Berlin and then, from 2000, at the Schaubühne. Further collaborations with Ostermeier in Vienna, Moscow, Amsterdam and Lausanne. Designed sets for operas at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and the Vienna State Opera, all directed by Andrea Moses. Workshops and solo exhibitions in Oslo (2009), Kraków (2011), Venice (2015), Hong Kong (2018) and Skopje (2019). In 2006, publication of his book »Dem Einzelnen ein Ganzes / A Whole for the Parts: Jan Pappelbaum. Bühnen / Stages« by Theater der Zeit. Exhibition architectures at the Städel in Frankfurt and the Hygiene Museum in Dresden
All productions
Personenkreis 3.1 by Lars Norén, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2000)
Das Kontingent by Soeren Voima, Director: Tom Kühnel and Robert Schuster (2000)
Dantons Tod by Georg Büchner, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2001)
Supermarket by Biljana Srbljanovic, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2001)
Die Arabische Nacht by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Director: Tom Kühnel (2001)
Goldene Zeiten by Richard Dresser, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2002)
Nora by Henrik Ibsen, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2002)
Wunschkonzert by Franz Xaver Kroetz, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2003)
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2003)
Der Würgeengel by Karst Woudstra, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2003)
Das System 1 / Electronic City by Falk Richter, Director: Tom Kühnel (2004)
Das System 2 / Unter Eis by Falk Richter, Director: Falk Richter (2004)
Das System 3 / Amok WENIGER NOTFÄLLE by Falk Richter, Director: Falk Richter (2004)
Das System 4 / Hotel Palestine by Falk Richter, Director: Falk Richter (2004)
Lulu by Frank Wedekind, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2004)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2005)
Die Dummheit by Raffael Spregelburd, Director: Tom Kühnel (2005)
Zerbombt by Sarah Khane, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2005)
Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2005)
Trauer muss Elektra tragen by Eugene O’Neill (Director: Thomas Ostermeier, 2006)
Ein Sommernachtstraum freely adapted by William Shakespeare, Director and Choreography: Thomas Ostermeier and Constanza Macras (2006)
Im Ausnahmezustand by Falk Richter, Director: Falk Richter (2007)
Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach by Tennessee Williams, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2007)
Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2007)
DIE STADT und DER SCHNITT by Martin Crimp And Mark Ravenhill, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2008)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2008)
John Gabriel Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2009)
The Americas – War of the Worlds by Patrick Wengenroth, Director: Patrick Wengenroth (2010)
Othello by William Shakespeare, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2010)
Maß für Maß by William Shakespeare, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2011)
Ein Volksfeind (An Enemy of the People) by Henrik Ibsen, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2012)
Death in Venice / Kindertotenlieder after Thomas Mann/Gustav Mahler, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2013)
Die kleinen Füchse – The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2014)
Richard III. by William Shakespeare, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2015)
Bella Figura by Yasmina Reza, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (World Premiere 2015)
Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2016)
Jugend ohne Gott (Youth without God) by Ödön von Horváth, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2019)
ödipus by Maja Zade; Director: Thomas Ostermeier (World Premiere, 2021)
reden über sex by Maja Zade, Director: Marius von Mayenburg (Uraufführung, 2021)
To Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles (ОЗБРОЮЮЧИСЬ ПРОТИ МОРЯ ЛИХ), a project by Stas Zhyrkov and Pavlo Arie, Director: Stas Zhyrkov (World Premiere, 2022)
Die Möwe (The Seagull) by Anton Tschechow, Director: Thomas Ostermeier (2023)
Postkarten aus dem Osten by Pavlo Arie, Martín Valdés-Stauber and Ensemble, Director: Stas Zhyrkov (World Premiere, 2023)
Territorium by Marco Layera and Martín Valdés-Stauber, Director: Marco Layera (World Premiere, 2025), The production is canceled