Beatrice Schultz is a German Production Designer. Following a tailoring apprenticeship and assistantships at the Stuttgart State Theatre and Opera, the Residenztheater Munich and Burgtheater Vienna, Beatrice Schultz studied costume and stage design at the University of Fine Arts (UdK) in Berlin from 1992 to 1998, completing her diploma with honours.

She began working as a costume and stage designer for theatres such as 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 who bring stories with them, which can then be interwoven into the story to be told.
Since 2000, she has worked as a freelance production designer for a wide range of art and feature films, including WESTERN, or LATE SHIFT / HELDIN that have been screened and awarded prizes 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 committed to her profession as a production designer, having had articles published in the VSK’s online magazine 2024, been a jury member at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2025, and moderated on the panel at the Cameriamge Filmfestival in Poland 2025 on the important collaboration between DOP and Production Designer. Topic: shaping the space in film.

2024 received award for best Production Design at Achtung Berlin Film Festival for the film TOUCHED by 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.

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