Costume Designer
Victoria Behr
Victoria Behr, a native of Koblenz, studied costume design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences under Dirk von Bodisco. After completing her studies, she worked as an assistant at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Zurich Opera House, and the Salzburg Festival. Victoria Behr has been working as a freelance costume designer since 2008.
Since then, she has worked in Berlin at the Volksbühne, the Schaubühne, and the Komische Oper Berlin, as well as at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Residenztheater in Munich, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Opéra de Lyon and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and at theaters in Basel and Bremen. In doing so, she has collaborated with directors such as Jan Bosse, Herbert Fritsch, Barrie Kosky, and Antú Romero Nunes.
With directors Peter Carp, Matthias Hartmann, Niklaus Helbling, Marcus Lobbes, and Stefan Pucher, she has created productions at venues including the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Zurich Opera House, the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and the theaters in Freiburg and Oberhausen. She designed costumes for director Benedict Andrews at the Young Vic in London, for St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York City, at the Copenhagen Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Amsterdam Opera House, and the English National Opera.
In the critics’ poll conducted by the magazine Theater heute, Victoria Behr was named
2011 Nora, 2012 Die (s)panische Fliege, 2014 Ohne Titel Nr.1, 2015 der die mann, and 2020 Amphitryon.
For her costumes in Frau Luna at the Volksbühne in Berlin and in Peter Eötvös’s Drei Schwestern in Zurich, she was named “Costume Designer of the Year” by the magazine Opernwelt in 2013.
As of April 2026