Caspar Neher

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Caspar Neher (born Rudolf Ludwig Caspar Neher, 11 April 1897 in Augsburg; died 30 June 1962 in Wien) was a Austrian-German scenographer known principally for his career-long working relationship with Bertolt Brecht. They were school friends (Neher in the year above Brecht) who were separated for a time by the first world war, during which Neher was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class (on 2 February 1918). In 1923 Neher married Erika Tomquist.

[edit] Scenographic work

(All plays by Bertolt Brecht unless otherwise stated.)

1923. In the Jungle at the Residenztheater in Munich
1924. Jungle: Decline of a Family at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
1924. The Life of Edward II of England at the Munich Kammerspiele
1925. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare at the Lessingtheater in Berlin; dir. Erich Engel^[1]
1926. Baal at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
1926. Man Equals Man at the Landestheater in Darmstadt
1927. The Little Mahagonny at the Deutsche Kammermusik festival at Baden-Baden
1929. Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.

[edit] Works cited

Sacks, Glendyr. 1994. "A Brecht Calendar." In The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Ed. Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks. Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521414466. p.xvii-xxvii.
Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Third rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977. ISBN 041334360X.