Janne Weirup

Janne Weirup works as a freelance dramaturge, festival organizer, and production manager and lives in Hamburg. After studying theater studies in Leipzig, she was part of the management team at the Figurentheaterzentrum Westflügel Leipzig until 2018. She works with independent groups as a dramaturge at the interface with directing, focusing on contemporary puppet theater. Her collaborations include Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel, Lehmann und Wenzel, flunker produktionen, Gyula Molnár, Christoph Bochdansky, Stefanie Oberhoff, and Cora Sachs. Since 2013, she has been part of the artistic direction and production management of the at.tension Theater Festival, organized by Kulturkosmos Müritz e.V. in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As a freelance production manager, she has worked in Hamburg for the Hauptsache Frei Festival, as well as for festivals (Nordwind, 2019 / Fokus Tanz 2021) and productions (Markt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen, 2021 in collaboration with the Mobile Academy Berlin – Hannah Hurtzig) at the international cultural factory Kampnagel. In November 2023, she took over the management and artistic direction of Flachsland - Hamburger Puppentheater.