Designing the Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is colorful, quirky and almost surreal.
Behind Anderson’s detailed world is Marquette alumnus Adam Stockhausen, Comm ‘95.
Director Wes Anderson and Stockhausen looked at old hotels and other eastern European buildings to create the invented country of Zubrowka.
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” received nine Oscar nominations and won four of them.
Stockhausen took home his first Oscar for production design. He shares this award with set designer Anna Pinnock.
He graduated from Marquette in 1995 with a degree in theater.
“He has that ability to wrap his mind around stuff and to get so engrossed in things that it really turns out some wonderful stuff,” Marquette Theatre Artistic director Debra Krajec told Fox6 News.
Stockhausen is the first Marquette graduate to win an Academy Award since Dom Ameche won for Best Supporting Actor in 1986.
Stochkausen was previously nominated for his work in the 2012 film “12 Years a Slave.” He has already worked on two films since “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
