Stefan Bolliger
Lighting Design
Stefan Bolliger was born 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked several years as a freelance lighting technician, before he started to work at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1995. Between 1997 and 2006 he was emploied there as deputy head of the lighting department. From 2006 until 2010 he was engaged as head of the lighting department and lighting designer at the dramatic theatre of the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Since then, he works as a freelance lighting designer.
He created lighting designs at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Hamburgische Staatsoper in Hamburg, the Semperoper in Dresden, the
Theater Basel, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Norske Opera
in Oslo, the State Opera in Berlin, the Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Aalto Musiktheater in
Essen, the Latvian National Opera in Riga, the Opera in Wuppertal, the Opera in Graz as well as at the
Teatro Nacional and the Gran Teatro in Havana. In 2014 he held a workshop for scenic and
lighting design at the ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte, University of Havana) and 2016 a workshop for
lighting design with cooperation of ISA in Havana, followed in 2017 and 2018 by workshops for
lighting design and -technic as well as for stage and projection technics at Gran Teatro in Havana and
in Camagüey (Cuba).
Since the winter semester 2019/2020 he has the lectorship for lighting design at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria).
Last updated: March 2026