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Dieter Hacker's Mask for Timon of Athens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

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For the well-received 1990 Bochum Schauspielhaus production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Dieter Hacker, one of Germany's leading artists and stage designers, created fifty-four masks, including the one on the opposite page for Timon himself (Figure I). This mask, Hacker's designs, and photographs of the production were seen in the recent exhibition “Contemporary Stage Design from German and Austria” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, presented in collaboration with the Goethe House and German Cultural Center in New York.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , November 1995 , pp. 89 - 90
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1995

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1. Timon aus Athen, directed by Frank-Patrick Steckel, trans, by Dorothea Tieck, newly arranged by Steckel, with sets, costumes, and masks by Dieter Hacker, assisted by Martina Büttner and Rosi Freiberg, at the Schauspielhaus, Bochum, beginning 13 October 1990. Ten actors played all the roles, including Peter Roggish (Timon), Armin Rohde (Flavius/Jeweler), Tilo Nest (Lucius/Lucilius/Servant/Phyrnia/ Bandit), Stephan Ullrich (Alcibiades/Alter/Philotus/Servant), and Wolfgang Michael (Apemantus/Servant/Senator). For a brief review, see Rouse, John, Theatre Journal 44 (1992): 99–105CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Photograph courtesy of the Goethe House/German Cultural Center, 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York 10028. Contact: Anna Martin or Neil Christian Pages. The exhibit was curated by Dr. Ludger Hünnekens, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Postfach 6919/Kaiserstr. 64, 76049/76133 Karlsruhe.

3. Theresia Birkenhauer, “‘How rarely does it meet with this time's guise…’: Dieter Hacker, Painter and Sculptor for the Theatre,” in Bühnenbild heute, Bühnenbild Zukunft [Stage Design Now, Stage Design of the Future], Achim Freyer, Dieter Hacker, Johannes Schütz, Erich Wonder, catalogue for an exhibition of the Center of Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, , Klotz, Heinrich and Hünnekens, Ludwig, eds. (Karlsruhe: Cantz, 1993): 53Google Scholar.