Mirjam Stängl (AT/GER)

is a stage and costume designer.

She studied stage and costume design at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she also created her first own
projects. At the same time, she developed several stage designs for the theater group “bodi end sole”. She then worked as an assistant set designer at the Hanover State Opera, the Dresden State Theater and the Burgtheater, among others.
Since 2018, she has been working as a set and costume designer at several theaters, such as the Mainz and Nuremberg State Theatres, Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Kosmos Theater Vienna, Theater Oberhausen, Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Burgtheater.
Mirjam Stängl is a member of the tangent.COLLABORATIONS collective, with which she develops plays and
spatial installations. She works closely with the directors Kathrin Herm and Rieke Süßkow. She has also designed stage and costume sets for productions by Anna Marboe, Wolfgang Menardi, among others.
In 2021, she designed the set for the production “Oxytocin Baby” by Anna Neata at the Schauspielhaus Vienna (invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt and the Prague Theater Festival of German Language).
For her set design for “Zwiegespräch” by Peter Handke at the Burgtheater, Mirjam Stängl was awarded the 3sat Prize at the 2023 Berlin Theatertreffen, nominated for the Vienna Nestroy Prize for Best Set Design, and voted Set Designer of the Year 2023 by the magazine Theater heute.
Most recently, she designed the set for the production “Übergewicht, unwichtig: UNFORM” at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, which was invited to the 2024 Berlin Theatertreffen.
In her spaces and costumes, Stängl searches for translations of external and internalized social structures that demand physical processing and engagement.