Directing is an art, definitely. 

 

For me, it is first and foremost good communication. How do I verbalize my ideas and visions so that a team of very different artists can collaborate with me?

How do I lead a team of people who work in an artistic process and have different needs? 

 

My job is to create a safe space in which others can be creative and can feel free to commit to the process without ego.

I think that a strong understanding of social dynamics and empathy is essential for working with diverse perspectives. 

 

I am a theatre maker, director, lecturer and sometimes a performer myself. I studied theater and film directing at the Athanor Academy of Performing Arts from 2009 to 2013. My works predominantly address questions of identity, perceived social taboos, and origins. My own identity, born as a Black woman in East Germany and mother of a daughter, is strongly interwoven with my projects, which are always told from an intersectional perspective.

 

Since 2019 I have worked as a lecturer for directing at the Athanor Academy for Performing Arts in Passau.

I accompany prospective directors in the conception and rehearsal process for their first productions.

In addition, i am also a member of the board of Athanor Academy since 2020 and a management member.

 

Since 2021, I have been working as a trainer for discrimination-sensitive communication for numerous cultural institutions in German-speaking countries. 

• 2025 UND WEITER NICHTS 

 

Production of the winning play of the Ingo & Ingeborg Springenschmidt Prize for young playwrights

 

Theater Kosmos Bregenz - Austria

 

 

• 2024 INVISIBLE LINES 

Theater club production on origin and identity, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus - Germany

 

 

• 2021 HEDDDA 

Production for 3 women freely adapted from H. IbsenFinal production of the 4th year

 

Athanor Akademie for performing arts Passau Germany

 

 

• 2021 THE PARENTS ISSUE

Performance by Marika Rockstroh, Mouches Volantes cologne - Germany

 

 

• 2021 THE LIMITING FACTOR 

interdisciplinary exhibition on the subject of identity, curated and organized by DOBSTROH & Friends

 

Mouches Volantes, cologne, Germany

 

 

• 2019 DAS DOUBLE 

Play based on Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, German-German escape story based on true events

 

a DOBSTROH production, Werft 77 Düsseldorf,Germany

 

 

• 2017 AUFZEICHNUNGEN EINES WAHNSINNIGEN

Mondrama after N. Gogol and Heinz Strunk a DOBSTROH production

 

Theaterfabrik Düsseldorf - Germany

 

 

• 2016-2020 DIRECTORIAL WORK 

In-house director at  Theater am Schlachthof Neuss

 

Productions in the areas of drama / children's theater / musical theater - Germany