Marie Schleef

I am a theater director whose work focuses on the unknown, the forgotten and the unseen. I am particularly interested in staging texts by women that have never been performed in the context of the (German-speaking) theater world.

I studied Theatre and Performance at Bard College, New York and directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin. Subsequently, I worked as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin.

My work has been performed at the Volksbühne Berlin, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Kosmos Theater Wien, Schauspiel Köln, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Münchner Kammerspiele. It was also presented at the Körber Studio für Junge Regie in 2019 and at Theatertreffen 2021. Additionally, I was the recipient of the CHANEL Next Prize, awarded to ten innovative artists world-wide, as well as the recipient of the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis 2022 for Once I Lived with a Stranger.