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Caspar Neher

Caspar Neher was an Austrian-German scenographer and librettist, known principally for his career-long working relationship with Bertolt Brecht.

Scenographic work
(All plays by Bertolt Brecht unless otherwise stated.) • 1923. Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Jürgen Fehling • 1923. In the Jungle at the Residenztheater in Munich • 1924. The Life of Edward II of England at the Munich Kammerspiele; dir. Brecht • 1924. Jungle: Decline of a Family at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin; dir. Erich Engel • 1925. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare at the Lessing-Theater in Berlin; dir. Erich Engel • 1925. Circle of Chalk in a version by Klabund at the Deutsches Theater; dir. Max Reinhardt • 1926. Lysistrata by Aristophanes at the Deutsches Theater; dir. Erich Engel • 1926. Baal at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin • 1926. Man Equals Man at the Landestheater Darmstadt; dir. Jacob Geis • 1926. Earth Spirit and ''Pandora's Box'' by Frank Wedekind at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Erich Engel • 1927. The Little Mahagonny at the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival at Baden-Baden; dir. Brecht • 1927. Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Carl Ebert • 1928. Man Equals Man at the Berlin Volksbühne; dir. Erich Engel • 1928. Kalkutta, 4. Mai by Lion Feuchtwanger at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Erich Engel • 1928. The Threepenny Opera at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, music by Kurt Weill • 1928. Carmen by Georges Bizet at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin • 1929. Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin; dir. Brecht and Jacob Geis • 1929. Moritat, Moschopoulos, and Sganarelle by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Grillo-Theater, Essen • 1929. Wozzeck by Alban Berg • 1930. Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the in Leipzig; music by Kurt Weill; dir. Walter Brugmann • 1931. Man Equals Man at the Berlin Staatstheater; dir. Brecht • 1931. The Threepenny Opera, costume design for the cinematic adaptation directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst • 1931. From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin • 1932. Die Bürgschaft, libretto and design by Neher, music by Kurt Weill, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; dir. Ebert • 1932. Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; dir. Ebert • 1932. Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Salle Gaveau in Paris; dir. Hans Curjel • 1932. Oliver Cromwells Sendung by Walter Gilbricht at the Volksbühne; dir. Hilpert • 1938. Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera; dir. Ebert • 1949. Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Edinburgh Festival; dir. Ebert • 1949. Mr Puntila and his Man Matti at the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin. ==References==
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