Biography

Julia Wissert has been the artistic director of Schauspiel Dortmund since the 2020/21 season and is a freelance director in the fields of drama, music theatre and film. Her performative approaches from her time in London were combined with an increased interest in texts to create her own interdisciplinary forms between disciplines and genres.
She has won the Körber Studio Junge Regie Audience Award, the City of Salzburg Prize and the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize for her work, and has worked at the National Theatre Brno, the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Staatstheater Hannover, among others. In addition to her work as an artistic director and stage director, she writes texts on structural racism and transformation in the theatre.
Her critical examination of the working environment in which she operates as an artist has led to articles and lectures. In 2017, she developed the “Anti-Racism Clause” together with lawyer Sonja Laaser. Julia Wissert has been a visiting professor at the UDK in Berlin in the field of art in context since the summer semester of 2023. Her last production, Der Ring des Nibelungen by Necati Öziri, premiered at Schauspiel Dortmund in January 2024. Julia Wissert is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts.