Anja Rabes

Born in 1966 in Munich, Anja Rabes began her career with an apprenticeship in tailoring at the Bavarian State Opera before studying Theater Studies at LMU Munich. She worked as a costume assistant for Anna Viebrock, Axel Manthey, and Johannes Grützke at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Münchner Kammerspiele. Since 1994, Rabes has worked as a freelance costume designer, collaborating regularly with directors Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, Stephan Kimmig, Johan Simons, Christoph Marthaler, and Calixto Bieito. Her designs have been featured in productions for theater, opera, and dance in cities such as Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Oslo, Vienna, London, Amsterdam, and Stuttgart, as well as at the Ruhrtriennale and the Salzburg Festival (since 1998). Rabes has served as a guest lecturer in scenography at the State University of Design Karlsruhe, as a lecturer at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, and currently teaches at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.