Christian Friedländer
Christian Friedländer, born 1967, is a Danish stage designer, educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design.
He has worked for a number of theatres, with productions including Jeff Koons at Betty Nansen (2001), Blasted at Café Teatret (2001), Lucia di Lammermoor at Folkoperan (2002) and Othello at Østre Gasværk in 2000, just to mention a few.
At The Royal Danish Theatre he has signed the stage design for productions including Nero (1998), Sir Bengt's Wife (2000), Dirty Hands (2001), The Wind in the Willows (2002), Uncle Vanya (2002) and the opera Under himlen* (Under the Sky).
He made the stage design for Flight, which won the Danish Reumert Award as the production of the year in 2004, and he did collaborate with director Alexander Mørk-Eidem in both Flight and The Pretenders.
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Danish title's literal meaning.
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(Objekt ID 5954)| Object type | Person |
| Functions | Stage designer |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Gender | Male |
Christian Friedländer won The Hedda Award 2005 in the best visual design category for his stage design for The Pretenders, produced by The National Theatre of Norway, The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen and The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
The Hedda Jury gave the following reason:
"This year's Hedda award goes to an artist who shows how stage design can not only support, clarify and express a director's intentions, but also add new and distinct dramatic life to it. In this production the winner of the year has strictly just used one great element.But as the action develops, this element is gradually transformed, in supreme symbiosis with the text's dramatic content until it in the final image is expanded into the very symbol for the whole drama's message. This is an amazing, stunning stage design, communicating with the spectator through simple, but utterly efficient effects.
The winner of this year's best stage design Hedda is Danish Christian Friedländer for his stage design for The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen, a coproduction in collaboration between the national theatres of Denmark, Sweden and Norway: The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and The National Theatre of our own."
Source:
Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2005, www.sceneweb.no, 17.10.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23849/The_Hedda_Award_2005-2005
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Tryllefløyten (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | 2020 | Stage design |
| Hans og Grete (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | Navember 22, 2019 | Stage design |
| Cosi fan tutte (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | Navember 17, 2016 | Stage design |
| Tryllefløyten (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | Navember 28, 2015 | Stage design |
| The Pretenders (The National TheatreThe Royal Danish TheatreThe Royal Dramatic Theatre) | January 5, 2005 | Stage design |