Volker Weinhart

Volker Weinhart gained his first theatre experience at the Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, at the Neues Theater Frankfurt and on tour with productions by Tina Turner and Michael Jackson. During an engagement at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden he was responsible for the light design of »Grease«. This was followed by further training as a lighting master as well as a pyrotechnician and laser safety officer at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. In 1995, Volker Weinhart moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg as lighting inspector. In 2001, he became assistant to the technical director and in 2004/05 head of the lighting department. As a light designer, he worked with the directors Tobias Richter, Christof Loy, Christof Nel, Michael Simon, Giancarlo del Monaco and Immo Karaman, with the choreographers Martin Schläpfer and Nils Christe, and with the set designers Gottfried Pilz, Andreas Reinhardt, Herbert Murauer, Johannes Leiacker and Dieter Richter, among many others. His most important recent project was his light and video concept for Dietrich W. Hilsdorf’s production of Richard Wagner’s »Der Ring des Nibelungen« at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. For Martin Schläpfer’s ballet »Ein Deutsches Requiem« Volker Weinhart will be a guest at the Volksoper Wien in 2021.