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"The stage design developed by [Robert Wilson] for the Düsseldorf production has only minimal props, but the exceptional lighting design fully makes up for it." -Ilona Marks, Wallpaper*

DER SANDMANN
from the text of E.T.A. Hoffman

Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Concept, Direction, Design | Robert Wilson
Music & Lyrics | Anna Calvi
Costume | Jacques Reynaud
Directing Collaborator  |  Ann-Christin Rommen
Scenery Collaborator  |  Annick Lavallée-Benny
Lighting Collaborator  |  Scott Bolman
Sound Collaborator |  Frank Schulte
Make-up  |  Manu Halligan
Video  |  Tomasz Jeziorski
Musical Director  |  Jherek Bischoff
Dramaturge  |  Janine Ortiz


The Sandman is based on the eponymous short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), one of the masters of German Romanticism and Gothic horror tales. It triggered Sigmund Freud to explore the protagonist's unconscious fear of castration ("The Uncanny"), and became inspiration and subject of many other works, most famously the "Olympia Act" in Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann.

Production Photography: Lucie Jansch
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