Katharina Schlipf studied set and costume design with Martin Zehetgruber and Werner Pick at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design.
Since 2010 she has regularly collaborated with the choreographer Demis Volpi, for whom she has designed sets and costumes for The Nutcracker at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Salome after Oscar Wilde and Krabat after Otfried Preußler at the Stuttgart Ballet. She also designed Volpi’s opera productions of Jommelli’s Fetonte at the Winter in Schwetzingen festival and Death in Venice at Stuttgart State Opera. Death in Venice was nominated for the Best Production of the Year at the International Opera Awards in 2018.
Since 2011 Katharina Schlipf has also worked regularly with the director Lydia Steier, designing sets for her productions of Handel’s Saul at the Oldenburg State Theatre, Franz von Suppè’s operetta Fatinitza at the Mainz State Theatre, Ariadne auf Naxos at the Konzert Theater Bern, Albert Herring in Oldenburg, Giulio Cesare at the Komische Oper Berlin and The Rake’s Progress at the Theater Basel. She also works frequently at the Theater Bielefeld as a designer for the opera productions of stage director and opera manager Nadja Loschky.
