Born in Bad König, Odenwald, Schlößmann studied design of stage and costumes (Bühnen- und Kostümgestaltung) at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1985 to 1989.
In Europe, he staged for the Royal Opera House in London, in Dublin, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, in Strasbourg, Bologna and Catania, at La Fenice in Venice and the Liceu in Barcelona, in Oslo, Helsinki and Basel.
In the Americas, he designed stages and costumes for the Houston Grand Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, among others.
[4] He designed the set for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen directed by Tankred Dorst at the Bayreuth Festival, presented from 2006 to 2010.
He created sets for Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the Volksoper in Vienna, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Opernhaus Dortmund.