Biography
Marie Schleef, born in 1990, studied theatre and performance at Bard College in New York and then directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After working as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin she developed her own pieces about the unknown and the forgotten, often about women and women writers who rarely appear on stage. Her research piece NAME HER. Eine Suche nach den Frauen+, for which she was responsible for concept, text and direction, opened at Ballhaus Ost in 2020 and was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2021. She has directed at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Burgtheater Wien, where her staging of Han Kang's The Vegetarian opened at the Akademietheater in 2025. She received the CHANEL Next Prize in 2021 as well as the Kurt Hübner directing prize. In 2027 she premieres her play Die Geburt der Maria Theresia at the Akademietheater as author and director.
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