Victoria Behr

Victoria Behr was born in Koblenz in 1979 and studied costume design with Dirk von Bodisco at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Following her studies, she worked as an assistant at the Bochum Schauspielhaus, the Zurich Schauspielhaus, the Zurich Opera and the Salzburg Festival. Since 2008 she has been a freelance costume designer.

Victoria Behr has worked with the directors Jan Bosse, Herbert Fritsch, Barrie Kosky and Antú Romero Nunes at venues such as the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, the Vienna Burgtheater, Theater Bremen, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and the Opéra de Lyon (in a co-production with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), as well as at the Salzburg Festival.

For the director Benedict Andrews she has designed costumes at the Young Vic in London (in a co-production with St Ann’s Warehouse in New York), the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and the English National Opera.

With directors Peter Carp, Matthias Hartmann, Niklaus Helbling, Marcus Lobbes and Stefan Pucher she has worked at venues including the Zurich Schauspielhaus, the Zurich Opera, the Oldenburg State Theatre, Theater Freiburg, the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Theater Oberhausen.

The critics’ forum of the magazine Theater heute has voted Victoria Behr Costume Designer of the Year five times: in 2011 for Nora, in 2012 for Die (s)panische Fliege, in 2014 for Ohne Titel Nr. 1, in 2015 for der die mann and in 2020 for Amphitryon. She was named Costume Designer of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt in 2013 for her costumes for Frau Luna at the Berlin Volksbühne and for Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters in Zurich.