Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler has taken her to Theater Basel, Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Frankfurt Opera, the Paris Opera, the Royal Theatre Madrid, the Vienna Festival, the Festival d’Avignon, as well as to the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals.
With Stefanie Carp and Christoph Marthaler, Viebrock directed the Zürich Playhouse from 2000 to 2004. Since 1994 she has been working with the direction team Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito on opera productions at the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam and the Stuttgart Opera, among others. She has also designed for director René Pollesch and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In 2017 Viebrock showed the exhibition “The Boat is Leaking, The Captain Lied” at the Fondazione Prada in Venice, which she designed in collaboration with Alexander Kluge, Thomas Demand and Udo Kittelmann.
She has been awarded “Stage Designer of the Year” and “Costume Designer of the Year” 16 times. In 1997 she was awarded the Hessian Cultural Prize by the State of Hesse. In 2004 she was awarded the Berlin Theatre Prize and in 2013 the Hein-Heckroth Prize. She was awarded the Zürich Festival Prize in 2015.
Since 2002, Anna Viebrock has also directed at the Staatsoper Hannover, the Bastille Opera House in Paris, the Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (HAU), the Schauspiel Köln, the Mannheim National Theatre, the Munich Biennale and the Schwetzinger Festival. Anna Viebrock is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
