Susanne Uhl

Costume Designer

Susanne Uhl
© Barbara Aumüller

Susanne Uhl is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she designed costumes for Handel's Teseo (2013), Radamisto (2016), Xerxes (2017), Rossini's Bianca et Falliero (which went to the 2022 Winter Festival in Erl) and, last season, Frank Martin's Le vin Herbé, for new productions of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Zemlinsky's Traumgörge / George the Dreamer this season. Other productions she has worked on with Tilmann Köhler include The Merchant of Venice and Odyssee (Staats Schauspiel Dresden), King Arthur (Semperoper Dresden), Mario and the Magician (Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart), Macbeth (Deutsche Theater Berlin), The Maid of Orleans (Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg) andThe Black Spider (Theater Basel). She has worked with the directors Christina Friedrich on many plays in places including Göttingen, Lucerne and Zürich, and Peter Kleinert on, amonst others: The Mother, Danton's Death and The Good Man from Sezuan at the Schaubühne in Berlin. She studied set and costume design at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden and taught at the »Ernst Busch« University for Drama in  Berlin from 2003 - 2006. She recently designed costumes of What now - Little man?  at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf, the world premiere of Von schlechten Eltern / From bad parents, based on Tom Kummer's novel, for Bern Bühnen and Life's a Dream at the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden.