Biography
Nils Strunk was born in Bad Oldesloe in 1990 and grew up in Lübeck. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 2011 to 2015, then joined the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where he also worked as a stage musician, and later the Residenztheater in Munich. In 2019 he received the Kurt Meisel award for young artists and the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for performing arts. Since the 2021/22 season he has been an ensemble member of the Burgtheater Wien, where he and Lukas Schrenk staged new versions of Mozart's The Magic Flute (2023) and Stefan Zweig's Chess Story (2024). For the Volksoper Wien he created the music theatre piece Killing Carmen with Schrenk and the French musician Gabriel Cazes; it premiered in 2025 and continues the Carmen story with newly arranged motifs from Bizet's opera. He also works as a film composer and choir director.
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