production design beatrice schultz
the starting point in my work is about trust and curiosity in what
is already there.
my interest lies in the tension between the found and the fabricated, the world as it exists and the space that is consciously created.
in close collaboration with the director and the cinematographer, i shape atmospheres that reveal what lies between the lines of a screenplay.
the resulting spaces carry the film visually, grounding it in reality while opening room for invention.
ultimately, i create environments that not only serve the story but enable actors to fully inhabit their roles.
beatrice schultz is a german production designer.
after a tailoring apprenticeship as well as several assistantships at the stuttgart state theatres and opera, the residenztheater munich and burgtheater vienna, she studied from 1992 to 1998, costume and stage design at the university of fine arts (udk) in berlin, completing her diploma with honours.
she started working as a costume and stage designer for theatres like theater bremen, national theater mannheim and volkstheater vienna, but soon discovered her passion lay in film. there was a growing interest in encountering people from everyday life and places that already bring stories with them and can be interwoven with the story to be told.
since 2000, she have worked as a freelance production designer for a wide range of art and feature films, like WESTERN, or LATE SHIFT/HELDIN that have been screened and awarded at national and international film festivals.
her collaborators include directors/writers such as valeska grisebach, petra volpe, emily atef, nana neul, christoph hochhäusler, omer fast, jan speckenbach, marcus lenz, miriam bliese, and mareille klein.
as a member of: the german film academy, the association of production design and costume design (VSK), the international production designers collective (PDC), she is engaged and commited to her profession as a production designer with articles in the VSK's online magazine 2024, as well as a jury member at the achtung berlin film festival 2025, or as moderator on a panel at the cameriamge filmfestival in poland 2025, about the important collaboration between DOP and production designer on the topic: shaping the space in film.
2024 award for best production design, at achtung berlin film festival, for the film TOUCHED from claudia rorarius.
since 2020, regular teaching activity at the zurich university of the arts (ZHdK), as a guest lecturer for aspiring production designers.
since 2007, long-term photo project, documenting the ways in which people inhabit their living spaces. the goal is to create a catalogue of different themes, exploring and revealing the subtle organic patterns of human behaviour – both the parallels and the peculiarities.
beatrice schultz lives with her family in berlin.