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© Volker Schmidt
j.
is a German-born stage and set designer based in Vienna.
He has been creating spaces for all kinds of narratives and performances. After finishing his education in 2012 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he has been working in both stage and set design. In the recent years, he has also been creating set designs for commercials. In 2018, he began working on larger events such as Vienna’s famous final Life Ball and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). Between theatre projects, was an associate to Theatre Director Haiko Pfost, designing the interiors of brut- wien for a decade and impulse theater festival for more than 6 years. He also became an associate of Studio Kudlich. During the pandemicin, he was involved in several film productions as a set designer, starting of with Navalny, and as Props Master and Builder for Cinema Producitons. A little further a long the way, he got to be Art Director of a couple of top- notch- commercials for ppm, ppmnext_, das Rund, and MXR.
Since 2018, he has been designing stages annually for Landestheater Niederösterreich’s major family productions.
In the past two years, he has been preferrably collaborating with younger production companies such as Frames Network / Frames Virtual and agencies such as Papa Bogner and Traktor. Overall, he is managing to create more and more time to spend with his daughters — the greatest achievement.
love & peace, j
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