Klaus Grünberg, born in Hamburg in 1969, studied set design with Erich Wonder in Vienna. Since 1994 he has worked as a free-lance set and lighting designer in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Graz, Lausanne, London and Paris, for Heiner Goebbels (Max Black, Hashirigaki, Eraritjaritjaka), Sebas-tian Baumgarten, Tatjana Gürbaca (Puccini’s Turandot in Graz, Stravinsky’s Mavra at the Staatsoper Berlin and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Baden-Baden) and André Wilms.
He is the founder of momolma (Museum of More or Less Modern Art), which opened in 1999 in Hamburg.
His latest productions include Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro for Berlin’s Komische Oper and Wagner’s Lohengrin for the Staatsoper in Vienna, with director Barrie Kosky.