Haß, Ulrike. Mark Lammert Bühnen Räume Spaces

Mark Lammert is a visual artist.

His first job took him to the Berlin Ensemble in 1993, where he designed the

stage for Heiner Müller's production of “Duell Traktor Fatzer". It is from this

time that the main features of his scenic concepts derive, with Lammert

realising them in reduced, abstract, yet concrete, stage areas and costumes

above and beyond every form of scenery.

His spaces never constitute an

aesthetic addition to the production. They do not frame the “surroundings", nor

do they aspire to provide complementarity. They do not want to “fit in" nor

blend subtly into the background. They want to be prominent. They play with

movable objects, light and colours that are in a constant state of movement,

and further establish, change and allow permanently changing relations. Edited

by Ulrike Hass, Lammert's work for Heiner Müller, Jean Jourdheuil, Dimiter

Gottscheff and Volker Schlöndorff, amongst others, has been documented in a

dramatic composition of images and texts that seeks to do justice to his stage

areas and their movement.