Teo Otto

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Name Teo Otto		Role Stage designer

Died June 9, 1968, Frankfurt, Germany Books Nie Wieder: Tagebuch in Bildern: With a Foreword by Bertolt Brecht, Translated by Kurt J. Fickert. With a New Introd. for the Garland Ed. by Kurt J. Fickert. Biographical Notes for the Garland Ed. by Elvy Setterqvist O'Brien Nominations Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

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

Theatre designs

1930: première of The Decision by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Slatan Dudow at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin

1941: première of Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leopold Lindtberg at the Zürich Schauspielhaus

1943: première of The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus

1943: première of Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus

1948: première of Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Kurt Hirschfeld and Brecht at the Zürich Schauspielhaus

1949: Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Brecht and Erich Engel at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin

1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre in London

1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Eric Bentley at the Phoenix Theatre in New York

1957: The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Harry Buckwitz at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt

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