Stage and Costume / Program Representative

Kerstin Laube studied architecture at UdK Berlin and stage design at Kunsthochschule Weissensee.

As assistant to stage designer Hartmut Meyer, she worked on major stages in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Copenhagen and Stockholm, where her collaboration with directors Frank Castorf and Ruth Berghaus was particularly influential.

Since 1996 she has worked as a freelance stage and costume designer in drama, dance and musical theater. Work has taken her to, among others: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin, HAU 2 Berlin, Theater Trier, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Östgotateatern Norrköping, Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, Pact Zollverein Essen and Ufer Studios Berlin. She also realized several interdisciplinary art and performance projects in Kassel, Stockholm and Paris.

Kerstin Laube teaches at the master program Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum since 2008 as a visiting professor for stage space in the field of stage design/costume and scenic space.

Kerstin Laube writes for “Die deutsche Bühne” and “Bühnentechnische Rundschau”. From 2010-2014 she was a reporter for the German theater award “Der Faust” in the category “Stage and Costume”.

Lectures and expert activities, among others, at scenography symposia of the DASA Dortmund, at the HfG Karlsruhe, Hafenuniversität Hamburg, HTWK Leipzig, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin_Abteilung Zeitgenössische Puppenspielkunst, UdK Berlin, Fachbereich Kostüm.

2018- 2021 Lectureship at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin_Abteilung Regie