Jonas Link Video

on this page

Vita

Jonas Link was born in Würzburg, studied media technology at the HAW in Hamburg and assisted Peter Baur, Meika Dresenkamp and Studio Braun, among others, at the Thalia Theater. After graduating in 2013, he worked as a video designer for the musical performance One Day by British musician Matthew Herbert during the Lessingtage festival at the Thalia Theater. In winter 2014, Jonas Link was the video artist for the production Gertrud by Hjalmar Söderberg (directed by Eirik Stubø) at Thalia in der Gauß. In spring 2016, he developed video animations for the staged concert Bye Bye Beethoven by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. A second collaboration took place a year later with Dies Irae as part of the Lucerne Festival. In the 16/17 season, Jonas Link worked with Ulrich Rasche in the production Sieben gegen Theben/Antigone at Schauspiel Frankfurt. In autumn 2019, he worked with director Angela Richter on the world premiere of Slavoj Žižek's Antigona at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Since 2013, Jonas Link has enjoyed an ongoing collaboration with director Bastian Kraft and set designer Peter Baur. They have worked together at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna Burgtheater, Schauspiel Köln, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Thalia Theater in Hamburg. For Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse at the Akademietheater, Peter Baur and Jonas Link were nominated for the Nestroy Award in the ‘Best Set’ category.