Matthias Lilienthal

Matthias Lilienthal began his career at Theater Basel as dramaturge to Frank Castorf and Christoph Marthaler. He then went on to Berlin's Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz as chief dramaturge and deputy artistic director, bringing artists such as Christoph Schlingensief and Johann Kresnik to work at the theatre. In 2002 and 2014, he directed the Theater der Welt festival in the Rheintal and Mannheim, and in the 2000s directed HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, which was named "Theater of the Year" twice during this period in the critics’ survey of the trade magazine, Theater Heute. Lilienthal was director of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2015 to 2020, transforming it into a hybrid production house / municipal theater. This theatre was also awarded "Theater of the Year" twice during his directorship. Since then, Lilienthal has worked as a festival maker, including "This Is Not Lebanon" at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and "Performing Exiles" at the Berliner Festspiele, as well as working as a dramaturge, university lecturer and actor.