Anta Helena Recke

Anta Helena Recke is a German-Senegalese artist. She works with performance, concept, copy and re-enactment, writing and video. She spent her training years studying scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim and as an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In the Theater heute critics' survey, she was voted Emerging Artist of the Year 2018, she also received the 2019 International Theatre Institute Prize and the Tabori Award in 2020. Her directorial works "MITTELREICH" and "Die Kränkungen der Menschheit" were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. She is a co-founder of the German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music and collaborates as a dramaturg in the performative arts with Joana Tischkau and Jeremy Nedd. Since 2021 she has occasionally been involved in various writers' rooms (Jünglinge Film, Netflix). In 2023, she made her series debut in screenwriting and directing with "Made in Germany" (ARD Degeto). Recke is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Program 2024/25.