Teo Otto Explained

Teo Otto (1904 - 1968) was a Swiss stage designer.^[1] He trained in Kassel and Paris and in 1926 taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar.^[2] In 1928 he became an assistant at the Berlin Staatsoper.^[2] Following the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany, he returned to Switzerland where he was resident designer at the Zürich Schauspielhaus for 25 years.^[2]

Theatre designs

• 1930: première of The Decision by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Slatan Dudow at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin^[3]
• 1941: première of Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leopold Lindtberg at the Schauspielhaus Zürich^[4]
• 1943: première of The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Schauspielhaus Zürich^[5]
• 1943: première of Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Schauspielhaus Zürich^[6]
• 1948: première of Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Kurt Hirschfeld and Brecht at the Schauspielhaus Zürich^[7]
• 1949: Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Brecht and Erich Engel at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin^[8]
• 1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre in London^[5]
• 1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Eric Bentley at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City^[5]
• 1957: The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Harry Buckwitz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt^[9]

Sources

• Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. .
• Baugh, Christopher. 1994. "Brecht and Stage Design: the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer." In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 235-253).
• Needle, Jan and Peter Thomson. 1981. Brecht. Chicago: U of Chicago P; Oxford: Basil Blackwell. .
• Thomson, Peter and Glendyr Sacks, eds. 1994. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. .
• Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Third rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977. .
• ---. 1997. Introduction. Collected Plays: Three. By Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose Ser. London: Methuen. ix-xxvi. .

Notes and References

1. Banham (1998, 830).
2. Baugh (1994, 252).
3. Baugh (1994, 240) and Willett (1997, xv).
4. Needle and Thomson (1981, 143-144).
5. Willett (1967, 51).
6. Willett (1967, 47).
7. Willett (1967, 52).
8. Willett (1967, 48).
9. Willett (1967, 54).