Text in English and German. Hans Dieter Schaal worked on opera with Ruth Berghaus for ten years, he also created unforgettable stage architecture for the operas of Heinz Werner Henze. Almost all the important European opera houses, for example those in Berlin, Brussels, Stuttgart, Paris, Vienna and Zurich, served as vehicles for his extraordinarily expressive artistic powers, which he used to captivate the public.
Hans Dieter Schaal--Stage Designs : Introduction by Gottfried Knapp; interview with Schaal by Frank Werner
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Gottfried Knapp worked as a film critic for ten years before starting as art, architecture and film editor for the arts page of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His numerous publications on art-historical and architectural themes include monographs on individual buildings and catalogues about painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and photographic artists. Knapp has won several journalism prizes in the fields of architecture and monument preservation.