About
Bernd Ernst Skodzig (*1969 in Datteln) is a German costume designer who designs large-format costumes for international theatres and opera houses for the fields of drama, opera and dance.
Life
Following his studies and assistance with Jürgen Rose at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Skodzig moved to London, where he worked as a freelance employee in the textile collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, focusing on historical garments from the 16th to the 18th century.
Create
His career as a costume designer at the Theater began with the collaboration with director Thomas Ostermeier and choreographer Sasha Waltz, with whom he designed costumes for contemporary pieces and modern choreographies at the New Berlin Schaubühne in 2000. His costume design for the show stage production "body"by the choreographer and director Sasha Waltz became his breakthrough. Since its Premiere in 2000, "Körper" has been shown more than 150 times worldwide and filmed by Arte.
Since 1999, Skodzig has been designing costumes for productions by Sasha Waltz, for example for the works "No Body", "Continu" and the Opera "Romeo et Juliet" by Valery Gergiev for the Paris National Opera Bastille and for the Milan Scala.
In 2013, Skodzig will be tasked with designing the costumes for the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's work Le sacre du printemps for the opening of the new Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and the anniversary event at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In 2014, on the occasion of the opening of the Berliner Festwochen, Skodzig designed the costumes for Richard Wagner's der Tannhäuser in the production of Sasha Waltz under the baton of Daniel Barenboim for the Berlin State Opera at Schillertheater.
Skodzig's designs for the productions of the "Sasha Waltz and Guests" company attracted public interest during a number of opening events of important buildings in which choreographic installations of Sasha Waltz were set up. Skodzig designed in accordance with the choreographies for the special architecture of the buildings, the costumes for the inaugural event of the Jewish Museum Berlin, for the opening of the New Museum in Berlin, as well as of the .
The current director of the Berliner Staatsoper, Peter Mussbach, dedicated Skodzig from 2005 for the costume design of the world premieres at the Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden. In the same year, Skodzig designed the costume design for the world premiere of Hans Zender's "Chief Joseph". For the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's concert Opera Phaedra at the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden, designed Skodzig the costumes for the staged installation of the plant.
At the same time, Skodzig was entrusted with the task of designing the costumes for the production of "Der Ring des Nibelungen", directed by Tankred Dorst under the direction of Christian Thielemann for the Bayreuth Festival.
Skodzig also designs costumes for the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
In 2008 he was appointed by Florence von Gerkan as a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the arts for the Department of costume design, where he taught temporarily.
He works freelance and lives in Berlin.