Career
He trained in Kassel and Paris and in 1926 taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1928 he became an assistant at the Berlin Staatsoper. Following the Nazi"s seizure of power in Germany, he returned to Switzerland where he was resident designer at the Zürich Schauspielhaus for 25 years.
1930: première of The Decision by Bertolt Brecht.
Directed by Slatan Dudow at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin. 1943: première of The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht.
Directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus. 1943: première of Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht.
Directed by Leonard Steckel at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
1948: première of Mr Puntila and his Manitoba Matti by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Kurt Hirschfeld and Brecht at the Zürich Schauspielhaus. 1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht.
Directed by George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
1956: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Eric Bentley at the Phoenix Theatre in New New York
1957: The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Harry Buckwitz at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt.