Stage and costume designer Christian Beck was born in Jena and studied stage design at the Weissensee Academy of Art.
He was a co-founder of and technical director for the Theaterhaus Jena, as well as technical director at the state Puppentheater (puppet theatre) in Dresden and the Thalia Theater in Halle. He has worked as a freelance stage and costume designer at the Volksbühne Berlin, as well as at public theatres in Leipzig, Mülheim, Hanover, Bremen, and Cologne. At the Gorki his designs for the stage were seen in Woyzeck III, directed by Mirko Borscht.