Jenny Flügge

Jenny Flügge, born in 1977, studied theater, film and media studies and American studies in Frankfurt am Main and was co-founder of the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection. After assisting at the Frankfurt Opera and spielzeiteuropa (Berliner Festspiele), she worked as an assistant director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 2009 to 2011 she was the organizer of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt at the Theater Heidelberg and artistic production manager of "Familienbande", a two-year theater partnership with the Teatron Beit Lessin, Tel Aviv as part of the Wanderlust Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. At the Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 2011/12, she was in charge of the series "Gastspiel freie Szene," the European Culture Days, the Handel Festival, a playwrights' festival, and a city project, among others. In the 2012/13 season she worked as a freelance production manager for the world premiere of "Stadt der 1000 Feuer" (textXTND / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen), at the Junge Oper Stuttgart and for the festival "Odyssee:Klima" at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. In 2014, she moved to the Kunstfest Weimar as artistic director of organization. There she realized co-productions with Rimini Protokoll, matthaei & konsorten, Mats Staub and Robert Schuster, among others. From 2016 to 2019, she was an acting dramaturge at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin, where she was involved in urban and research projects by Prinzip Gonzo, Nina Gühlstorff, and Helge Schmidt, among others. Since 2020, Jenny Flügge has been a staff member of ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) at "Wege ins Theater", a project within the framework of the federal program "Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education".