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Stage designer
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Male
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Birth:
4 February 1904(Remscheid, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Death:
9 June 1968(Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Teo Otto (1904–1968) was a Swiss stage designer. He trained in Kassel and Paris and in 1926 taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1928 he became an assistant at the Berlin Staatsoper. Following the Nazi's seizure of power in Germany, he returned to Switzerland where he was resident designer at the Zürich Schauspielhaus for 25 years.
Theatre designs
- 1930: première of The Decision by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Slatan Dudow at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
- 1941: première of Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leopold Lindtberg at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
- 1943: première of The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
- 1943: première of Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
- 1948: première of Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Kurt Hirschfeld and Brecht at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
- 1949: Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Brecht and Erich Engel at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
- 1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
- 1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Eric Bentley at the Phoenix Theatre in New York.
- 1957: The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Harry Buckwitz at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt.