Sebastian Hannak
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Sebastian Hannak, one of the most distinguished stage designers of his generation, designs spaces for opera, ballet, dance theater and drama at renowned theaters in Germany and abroad. He studied stage and costume design at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Jürgen Rose and Martin Zehelgruber.
His spatial designs have taken him, among others to the Karlsruhe State Ballet under Birgit Keil, where he created the ballet "Anne Frank" by Reginaldo Oliveira, "MOMO" by Tim Plegge and the three-part ballet evening "Mythos", to the Hessian State Ballet under Tim Plegge, where he created "Aschenputtel", "Kaspar Hauser" and Hans Zenders' "Eine Winterreise", to the Halle Opera, where he created numerous projects and received the theater prize DER FAUST for his spatial stage HETEROTOPIA. At the Staatstheater Kassel, he opened the 21/22 season as in-house scenographer with artistic director Florian Lutz with "PANDAEMONIUM". There he created "Wozzeck", which won the FAUST for best director of musical theater, and Sláva Daubnerová's "Tosca". He was awarded the Opus for PANDAEMONIUM in 2023. He is currently developing the spatial stage ANTIPOLIS for the entire 23/24 season, in which he designed Carmen, Don Giovanni and Nutcracker. For Stijn Celis and the Saarland State Ballet, he created "Shunkin", "Prometheus", which was produced by arte in dance film format, Schubert's "Winterreise", "Sound and Vision", "Privacy of Things" and most recently the classic "Nutcracker". With Reginaldo Oliveira and the company of the Salzburger Landestheater, he worked on "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet", "Anna Karenina" and most recently "Lili, the danish Girl". He worked with Joachim Schloemer on "Morton Morton Morton" and with Eun-Me Ahn on the dance piece "Louder! can you hear me", which was also produced by arte as a dance film. He made his debut at the Budapest State Opera in 2016 with "Fairy Queen", followed by "Porgy and Bess", "Parsifal", "Idomeneo" and Boris Godunov. Heregularly collaborates with directors such as Florian Lutz, Paul-Georg Dittrich, Jakob Peters- Messer, Sláva Daubnerová, Frank Hilbrich, Lorenzo Fioroni, András Almási-Tóth, Florentine Klepper, Thorleifur Örn Arnasson, Martin Nimz, Data Tavadze, Yuval Sharon and Christof Nel .
He was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute and is chairman of its alumni board. He is also a member of the Szenografie-Bund and the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste. In addition to various jury activities, he was a lecturer at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, gives lectures and seminars and regularly publishes articles in specialist journals. Together with Florian Lutz, he published the book "Raumbühne HETEROTOPIA- Neue Perspektiven im Musiktheater" with the publisher Theater der Zeit and organized a PQ TALK at the Prague Quadriennale on his Raumbühnen. He is also researching hybrid forms of presentation with digital media with the project "Augmented & Expanded Scenography". Sebastian Hannak is married and has two children; he lives and works in Heidelberg.
His spatial designs have taken him, among others to the Karlsruhe State Ballet under Birgit Keil, where he created the ballet "Anne Frank" by Reginaldo Oliveira, "MOMO" by Tim Plegge and the three-part ballet evening "Mythos", to the Hessian State Ballet under Tim Plegge, where he created "Aschenputtel", "Kaspar Hauser" and Hans Zenders' "Eine Winterreise", to the Halle Opera, where he created numerous projects and received the theater prize DER FAUST for his spatial stage HETEROTOPIA. At the Staatstheater Kassel, he opened the 21/22 season as in-house scenographer with artistic director Florian Lutz with "PANDAEMONIUM". There he created "Wozzeck", which won the FAUST for best director of musical theater, and Sláva Daubnerová's "Tosca". He was awarded the Opus for PANDAEMONIUM in 2023. He is currently developing the spatial stage ANTIPOLIS for the entire 23/24 season, in which he designed Carmen, Don Giovanni and Nutcracker. For Stijn Celis and the Saarland State Ballet, he created "Shunkin", "Prometheus", which was produced by arte in dance film format, Schubert's "Winterreise", "Sound and Vision", "Privacy of Things" and most recently the classic "Nutcracker". With Reginaldo Oliveira and the company of the Salzburger Landestheater, he worked on "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet", "Anna Karenina" and most recently "Lili, the danish Girl". He worked with Joachim Schloemer on "Morton Morton Morton" and with Eun-Me Ahn on the dance piece "Louder! can you hear me", which was also produced by arte as a dance film. He made his debut at the Budapest State Opera in 2016 with "Fairy Queen", followed by "Porgy and Bess", "Parsifal", "Idomeneo" and Boris Godunov. Heregularly collaborates with directors such as Florian Lutz, Paul-Georg Dittrich, Jakob Peters- Messer, Sláva Daubnerová, Frank Hilbrich, Lorenzo Fioroni, András Almási-Tóth, Florentine Klepper, Thorleifur Örn Arnasson, Martin Nimz, Data Tavadze, Yuval Sharon and Christof Nel .
He was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute and is chairman of its alumni board. He is also a member of the Szenografie-Bund and the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste. In addition to various jury activities, he was a lecturer at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, gives lectures and seminars and regularly publishes articles in specialist journals. Together with Florian Lutz, he published the book "Raumbühne HETEROTOPIA- Neue Perspektiven im Musiktheater" with the publisher Theater der Zeit and organized a PQ TALK at the Prague Quadriennale on his Raumbühnen. He is also researching hybrid forms of presentation with digital media with the project "Augmented & Expanded Scenography". Sebastian Hannak is married and has two children; he lives and works in Heidelberg.