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Heike Vollmer comes from Lower Saxony and lives in Berlin. She studied costume and stage design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. As an assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, she worked with Claus Peymann, George Tabori, Achim Freyer, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ulrike Ottinger and Jörg Immendorf.
Important stations of her work as a freelance stage designer include the state theaters in Braunschweig, Karlsruhe and Hannover, Schauspiel Essen, Nationaltheater Weimar, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Bárka Shínház in Budapest, Teatrul National Tirgu Mures, Theater Basel, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as the Bavarian State Opera, Salzburg Festival and the Bregenz Festival.
In addition to numerous collaborative works with directors Dominik Günther, György Vidovszky, Sebastian Sommer, Philipp M. Krenn and Thomas Dannemann, she worked with director Philipp Stölzl from 2013 to 2020 as drama and opera productions: „Frankenstein“ (Theater Basel, 2014), „Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci“ by Mascagni and Leoncavallo (Salzburg Easter Festival, 2015 / Dresden Semperoper, 2016) and Gounod’s „Faust“ (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015 / Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 2016), „Der Phantast“ (Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2017), „Andrea Chénier“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2017), „Frankenstein“ (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2018), „Andersen’s Tales“ (Theater Basel, 2019). This was followed in 2019 by the joint production of „Rigoletto“ for the Bregenz Festival. In 2020, the Bregenz Festival received the „OPUS – German Stage Prize“ for the technical achievements of this stage design. This will be followed in June 2023 by „Rusalka“ by Antonín Dvořák (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam).
Heike Vollmer worked with Thomas Fiedler, Jan Dvořák and Julia Warnemünde (Kommando Himmelfahrt) for the first time in 2021/2022 on „Der Freischütz“ (Nationaltheater Mannheim).
With the director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, „Tosca“ was created at the Dortmund Opera in the 2021/22 season. Future projects include „Orpheus in the Underworld“ by Jaques Offenbach (Dortmund Opera, 2023) and in 2024 W. A. Mozart’s „The Magic Flute“ at Severance Hall in Cleveland Ohio (USA).
In 2021, Heike Vollmer received a working and research grant for performing arts from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe to research digital formats.
Heike Vollmer comes from Lower Saxony and lives in Berlin. She studied costume and stage design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. As an assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, she worked with Claus Peymann, George Tabori, Achim Freyer, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ulrike Ottinger and Jörg Immendorf.
Important stations of her work as a freelance stage designer include the state theaters in Braunschweig, Karlsruhe and Hannover, Schauspiel Essen, Nationaltheater Weimar, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Bárka Shínház in Budapest, Teatrul National Tirgu Mures, Theater Basel, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as the Bavarian State Opera, Salzburg Festival and the Bregenz Festival.
In addition to numerous collaborative works with directors Dominik Günther, György Vidovszky, Sebastian Sommer, Philipp M. Krenn and Thomas Dannemann, she worked with director Philipp Stölzl from 2013 to 2020 as drama and opera productions: „Frankenstein“ (Theater Basel, 2014), „Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci“ by Mascagni and Leoncavallo (Salzburg Easter Festival, 2015 / Dresden Semperoper, 2016) and Gounod’s „Faust“ (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015 / Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 2016), „Der Phantast“ (Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2017), „Andrea Chénier“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2017), „Frankenstein“ (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2018), „Andersen’s Tales“ (Theater Basel, 2019). This was followed in 2019 by the joint production of „Rigoletto“ for the Bregenz Festival. In 2020, the Bregenz Festival received the „OPUS – German Stage Prize“ for the technical achievements of this stage design. This will be followed in June 2023 by „Rusalka“ by Antonín Dvořák (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam).
Heike Vollmer worked with Thomas Fiedler, Jan Dvořák and Julia Warnemünde (Kommando Himmelfahrt) for the first time in 2021/2022 on „Der Freischütz“ (Nationaltheater Mannheim).
With the director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, „Tosca“ was created at the Dortmund Opera in the 2021/22 season. Future projects include „Orpheus in the Underworld“ by Jaques Offenbach (Dortmund Opera, 2023) and in 2024 W. A. Mozart’s „The Magic Flute“ at Severance Hall in Cleveland Ohio (USA).
In 2021, Heike Vollmer received a working and research grant for performing arts from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe to research digital formats.
