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 Volksbühne Berlin, Ballhaus Ost, Kosmos Theater, Schauspiel Köln, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. It was invited to Körber Studio für Junge Regie, Radikal Jung and Theatertreffen. Additionally, I was awarded the CHANEL Next Prize, as one of ten innovative artists world-wide, and am the recipient of the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis.