Jo Schramm
Set Designer
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Jo Schramm works as a set designer in opera and drama. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he works regularly with David Hermann, most recently on Schönberg / Frank Martin's Waiting for Today, which was preceded by a Křenek Triple Bill, which was voted »Best Re-discovery« at the 2018 International Opera Awards, for Magnard's Guercœr. They recently Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde / Jelinek's King Bees and Die Frau ohne Schatten at Stuttgart State Opera, Lohengrin and Parsifal in Nürnberg, Falstaff at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Così fan tutte at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, Tannhäuser at the Opéra de Lyon and the world premiere of Gorden Kampe's Dogville at the Aalto Theater in Essen. These were preceded by Armide at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, Das Rheingold at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, We, of Glass for the Munich Biennale and the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the world premiere of Anno Schreier's Tis Pity she's a Whore. Later in the 2024/25 season they stage a new Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatoper in Munich. He regularly works on plays directed by Anna Bergmann and Tom Kühnel, at places including the Deutsche Theater Berlin, the Staatsschauspiels in Hannover and Dresden, the Residenztheater in Munich and Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen. Other directors with whom he has worked have included Schorsch Kamerun, Johann Kresnik, Christoph Schlingensief, Michael Simon, Suse Wächter and Christian Weise at the Schauspielhaus and Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Berlin Volksbühne, Munich Kammerspiele, the Schauspielhaus and Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich and Theater Basel. His work has won many accolades from specialist magazines, including Theater heute and Opernwelt, including Set Designer of the Year, and was awarded a FAUST Theater Prize for Medea at Schauspiel Hannover. Jo Schramm worked in the lighting department at the Schauspiel in Stuttgart before studying architecture at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and Scenography and Media Art at the University for Design in Karlsruhe.