Set designer Katrin Kersten explores artistically from the very beginning of her study period the possibilities of the connection between space and lyricism, space and philosophie. Built words. It is the searching for the perception and sense of the space, it’s vibrations and resonance. It’s emotional effect.
Many of her student projects and of her works ever since are inspired by literature. She designs interior (inner) rooms, sculptures, buildings and paintings based old german legends or on poems and texts of DaDa Artists Jean Arp and Kurt Schwitters as well as of the jewish german poet Else Lasker-Schüler.
In addition to the architecture studies Katrin Kersten made first experiences by assisting and internships at off-theater productions in Cologne and Bonn.
After her dregree she worked as an assistant to several well known german and austrian stage designers as Karl-Ernst Hermann, Wilfried Minks and Erich Wonder.
Since 2000 Katrin Kersten works as stage and costume designer with directors as Wojtek Klemm, Jorinde Dröse, Lydia Steier, Mona Kraushaar, Thomas Langhoff, Peter Jordan and Leonard Koppelmann at various theatres and opera houses in Germany, Austria, Italy.
Furthermore she did the set and costume design for “Slobodija Odysseia, mon amour”, a production for the European Capitals of Cultures 2013, Marseille and Kosice.
Film set-design she did as co-work for Pia Marais’ Film “The Unpolished” (Marais won the Tiger award at Filmfestival Rotterdam) and the set-design for Steffi Niderzoll’s “Lea” (Berlinale 2008).
Katrin Kersten lives and works in Berlin.
She speaks german, english, french, italian, dutch
2022
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Tschechow
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Theater Fürth
Stagedesign
Maria
by Simon Stephens
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Theater Kiel
Stagedesign
Don Carlos
by Friedrich Schiller
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stagedesign
2021
Anna Karenina
by Armin Petras
adapted from a novel by Leo Tolstoi
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Theater Konstanz
Stage and costume design
Philotas
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Theater Ulm
Stage and costume design
2020
Leonce and Lena
by Georg Büchner
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater
Stagedesign
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
by Max Frisch
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen
Stage and costume design
2019
Gaming Instinct
adapted from a novel by Juli Zeh
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Theater Kiel
Stage design
2018
The Oresteia
by Aischylos
directed by Wojtek Klemm
Staatstheater Augsburg
Stage and costume design
Störtebeker
by Peter Jordan
directed by Peter Jordan und Leonard Koppelmann
St. Pauli Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Antigone
by Sophocles
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
Stage and costume design
Maria Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
2017
Crudeland
by Paul Grootboom
directed by Paul Grootboom
Theater Freiburg
Stage and costume design
The Night of Saint Valentine's Day
by Paul Grootboom
directed by Paul Grootboom
Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Stage and costume design
Out in Africa
by Paul Grootboom
directed by Paul Grootboom
Ruhrfestspiele/Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Stage and costume design
Armide
opera by Christop Willibald Gluck
directed by Lydia Steier
Staatstheater Mainz
Stage design
2016
Pension Schöller
by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs
directed by Peter Jordan and Leonard Koppelmann
Staatstheater Mainz
Stage and costume design
We’re no Barbarians
by Philipp Löhle
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Stage design
2015
Glow! Box FRG
by Anne Habermehl
directed by Jorinde Dröse
Munic Kammerspiele
Stage and costume design
Magical Mystery
adapted from a novel by Sven Regener
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Altonaer Theater
Stage design
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
2014
Iphigenia In Tauris
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Stage and costume design
Constellations
by Nick Payne
directed by Wilfried Minks
St. Pauli Theater Hamburg
Costume design
2013
Maria Magdalena
by Friedrich Hebbel
directed by Nicole Felden
Berliner Ensemble
Stage design
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Slobodija Odysseia, mon Amour!
by Vienna Bahamut Productions
directed by Noemï Fischer
Marseille/Košice/Vienna
Stage and costume design
2012
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Bolzano, Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen
Stage and costume design
Ronja, the Robert’s Daughter
adapted from a novel by Astrid Lindgren
directed by Claudia Meyer
Stadtheater Klagenfurt
Stage and costume design
Platonov
by Anton Chekhov
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
Stage design
Liliom
by Ferenc Molnár
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Berliner Ensemble
Stage design
2011
Amphitryon
by Heinrich von Kleist
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Berliner Ensemble
Stage design
End of the Rainbow
by Peter Quilter
directed by Martin Maria Blau
Hamburger Kammerspiele
Stage design
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
directed by Thomas Langhoff
Berliner Ensemble
Stage design
2010
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Wiliam Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
Stage design
Solaris
adapted from a novel by Stanislav Lem
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Schauspielhaus Salzburg
Stage and costume design
2009
Confessions of Felix Krull
adapted from a novel by Thomas Mann
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Neues Theater Halle
Stage and costume design
Faith Hope and Charity
by Ödön von Horváth
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Schauspielhaus Salzburg
Stage design
Minna von Barnhelm or the soldiers fortune
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Victor, Victoria
by Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini
directed by Ulrike Grote
Altonaer Theater Hamburg
Stage design
2008
Measure For Measure
by William Shakespeare
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
Stage design
Treats
by Christopher Hampton
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Herr Lehmann – Berlin Blues
adapted from a novel by Sven Regner
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Altonaer Theater Hamburg
Stage design
Madame sings, Monsieur plays the Piano
a song recitel by Imogen Kogge
directed by Burghart Klaussner
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage and costume design
2007
The Talking Cure
by Christopher Hampton
directed by Mona Kraushaar
Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
Stage design
The Black Star
by Friedrich Karl Waechter
directed by Franz Xaver Zach
Theater Oberhausen
Stage design
Lea
film
written and directed by Steffi Niderzoll
Berlinale Film Festival 2008
Set design
2006
The Unpolished
film
written and directed by Pia Marais
Tiger Award Rotterdam Film Festival 2007
Co-Work Set design
2005
A Kiss Is Still A Kiss
a song recitel
directed by Franz Xaver Zach
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage and costume design
2004
BeNotToBeNo
texts of William Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Igor Bauersima
directed by Martin Fendrich
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design
Les Fourberies de Scapin
by Molière
directed by Franz Xaver Zach
Theater Oberhausen
Stage design
Les Brigands
by Jacques Offenbach
directed by Immo Karaman
Musiktheater im Revier
Stage design
Herr Kolpert
by David Gieselmann
directed by Katja Lauken
Theater Aachen
Stage design
2003
Lonely Hearts
a song recitel
directed by Alexandra Liedke
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design
2002
Pizza Pazza
a song recitel
directed by Alexandra Liedke
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design
Rozznjagd
by Peter Turrini
directed by Alexandra Liedke
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design
2001
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
by Woody Allan
directed by Matthias Hartmann
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design
2000
Die Eröffnung
by Peter Turrini
directed by Matthias Hartmann
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Stage design