Sophie Reble

Sophie Reble, born in Zurich in 1985, studied costume design with Florence von Gerkan at the Berlin University of the Arts. She began working closely with director and choreographer Laurent Chétouane during her studies. She developed the costumes for the opera project Auf Kolonos at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and for his dance pieces, which premiered at HAU Berlin, the Ruhrtriennale and Kampnagel in Hamburg and were invited to the Dance Platform 12 and 14 and the Dance Biennale in Venice, among others.

Since 2011, she has been working as a freelance costume designer in the field of music and spoken theater, in the context of performance art and for international cinema film productions, working with directors and choreographers such as Ivna Žic, Johannes Holmen Dahl, Mirja Biel, Stephan Stock, Leonie Böhm, Annina Machaz and Teresa Vittucci at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Dramaten Stockholm, the Bavarian State Opera, Theater Neumarkt and Thalia Theater Hamburg, among others.

Since 2021, she has had an ongoing collaboration with Theater HORA. She has created the costumes for Planet Hora, Das kranke Haus, SACRE! (invited to the Swiss Dance Days 2024) and Riesenhaft in Mittelerde (invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2024). In the field of film, she created the costumes for 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann, Don’t let the sun (catch you crying) by Jacqueline Zünd, Sarah joue un loup-garou by Katharina Wyss and 8 Tage im August by Samuel Perriard, among others.
Their work is characterized by a precise examination of the present as well as a fragile, hierarchy-free collage of everyday clothing and archaic-poetic elements. Their respective aspirations are to create subjects and bodies with which the audience can identify and is thus granted an active position, creating a space for negotiation.

The Oresteia is her second collaboration with Nicolas Stemann after Riesenhaft in Mittelerde.