Walter Schütze

Stage & Costume Designer

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Walter Schütze lives and works in Berlin.
He studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and initially worked for several years as a designing and supervising architect, mainly in residential construction. After a second degree – stage and costume design – at the Technical University of Berlin, he was able to continue his work as a freelance artist, he was able to shift his work more and more to the field of theatre.
Since the beginning, the focus of his artistic work has been on musical theatre, especially opera.
After starting out as an assistant to the stage designers Marco Arturo Marelli, Frank Philipp Schlößmann and Gideon Davey, he has now been working internationally for many years as a stage and costume designer, director and artistic as well as coordinating project manager from musical theatre to theme parks. As a theatre maker, he designs for opera, operetta, drama and musical productions at home and abroad.
Over the years, he has collaborated with a wide variety of directors and has given dozens of productions an unmistakable look with his designs.
His work can be seen at the Vienna State Opera, the Volksoper Vienna, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki,  at the Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, at the Czech National Opera Prague, at the Darmstadt State Theatre, at the Chemnitz Opera, at the Kiel Theatre, at the Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, the Olympic Stadium in Munich and numerous other venues.
As a director, he staged Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman at the Bonn Theatre in his own production. He also works regularly as Executive Creative Director on and coordinating event concepts, from the logo to the event architecture and teaches at various universities.