About
Volker Hintermeier (* 1968 in Donauwörth) is a German stage designer, who works mainly at the Vienna Burgtheater.
Hintermeier originally wanted to be a painter, but his parents recommended a craft for safety. After graduating from high school, he completed a carpentry apprenticeship, helped a stage designer with his models, and subsequently studied stage design and costume at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 2002 to 2005 he was equipment manager at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, where he u. a. collaborated with Helge Schneider. In 2002 he realized the opening production of the Ruhrtriennale - Germany Deine Lieder. From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a chief stage designer at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, since then he has worked mainly for the Burgtheater. He also designed stage sets for Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspiel Köln, Schauspiel Leipzig and Schauspiel Stuttgart, for the Theater Oberhausen, the Vienna Volkstheater, the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich and the Lucerne Theater, as well as for the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
Many years of cooperation Hintermeier connects with the directors Jürgen Kruse and Matthias Hartmann. He accompanied the latter from Bochum via Zurich to Vienna. With Hartmann at the director's desk, he also took over opera arrangements for the first time, first in 2003 at the Zurich Opera House for Smetana Verkaufte Braut, 2006 for d'Alberts Tiefland and 2008 for Bizet's Carmen and in 2009 at the Vienna State Opera for Lady Macbeth von Mzensk by Dmitri Shostakovich. Lowland was also shown in 2008 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He also designed the sets for Volker Schlöndorff's productions by Carmen and Katja Kabanowa in St. Petersburg. The Carmen was shown in 2012 at the Seefestspiele Berlin.
Hintermeier debuted at the Salzburg Festival in 2007 with the stage design for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Christian Weise. His first productions at the Burgtheater were Faust I and Faust II, again with Hartmann as director.
In the season 2013-14 he participated in the contemporary witness production The Last Witnesses of Doron Rabinovici and Matthias Hartmann at the Vienna Burgtheater; the production referred to the November Pogroms 1938, gained high esteem from the public and the press and was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen 2014.