Tom
Grasshof

Tom Grasshof studied architecture at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, graduating with a degree in architecture. Before this, he trained as a men’s tailor at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück. The combination of architecture, space, materials and craftsmanship continues to form the basis of his work as a set and costume designer.

After working as an assistant designer at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, he began his freelance career. Over the past 27 years, Tom Grasshof has created more than 270 set and costume designs. His work encompasses musicals, opera and operetta, as well as theatre, comedy, cabaret, carnival productions, and theatre for children and young people.

His engagements have taken him to numerous renowned theatres throughout Germany, including Oper Leipzig and Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, Staatstheater Augsburg, the theatres in Pforzheim and Trier, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and Theater Rudolstadt. In Berlin, he has worked for Komödie and Theater am Kurfürstendamm, as well as Distel.

Further productions have been created at Scala Theater and Theater am Dom in Cologne, Contra-Kreis-Theater and Junges Theater Bonn, Theater an der Kö and Komödie Düsseldorf, Komödie Frankfurt and Fritz Rémond Theater, Komödie im Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg, Komödie im Bayerischen Hof in Munich, Comödie Dresden, Grenzlandtheater Aachen, Komödie Braunschweig, Neues Theater Hannover, Harztheater and Theater im Rathaus Essen, as well as for Landesbühne Rheinland-Pfalz at Schlosstheater Neuwied. These are complemented by numerous productions at castle festivals, including those in Jagsthausen, Mayen and Neersen.

His many years of experience, architectural perspective on the stage and extensive knowledge of costume design and craftsmanship shape a versatile artistic style that enables him to work across a wide variety of genres and theatrical forms.

“Wat e Thiater” is his seventh set design for Cologne’s Divertissementchen.