Anne Lenk

Anne Lenk studied applied theatre studies in Gießen before moving to the Otto Falckenberg School to study directing. After graduating, she became resident director in Augsburg; subsequent posts included Lübeck, Bochum, Aachen and Osnabrück, and most recently she has worked regularly at the Residenztheater in Munich and the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Following the world premiere of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s Du hast gewackelt. Requiem für ein liebes Kind, she was invited to the 2013 Mülheim Theatre Festival. Räuberhände, a world premiere based on a play by Finn-Ole Heinrich, was invited to the 2013 Augenblick mal festival in Berlin. Her world premiere of Nis-Momme Stockmann’s Phosphoros was staged in 2014 at the AutorenTheaterTage at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Teaching posts have taken her to the Vienna Conservatory and the Berlin University of the Arts. At Deutsches Theater, she directed Hiob by Joseph Roth and Das Fest by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov during the 2015/16 season, and Der Tag, als ich nicht ich mehr war by Roland Schimmelpfennig during the 2016/17 season. Her productions of Molière’s The Misanthrope (2019) and Friedrich Schiller’s Maria Stuart were invited to the Theatertreffen; The Misanthrope was also awarded the 2020 Friedrich Luft Prize. In December 2021, she directed Heinrich von Kleist’s The Broken Jug.