Mirjam Schmuck

Mirjam Schmuck (*1984), has been working as a director, dramaturg, musician and musical director in theater productions in NRW, Hamburg, Berlin and internationally (Poland, Croatia, Cameroon, Madagascar) since 2005. She founded the kainkollektiv together with Fabian Lettow in 2010. After graduating from high school, she studied theater and comparative literature at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Université Charles-de-Gaulle in Lille. She develops her theater works in the field of tension between different musical styles and in dialogue with contemporary and classical musicians, singers, composers, electro-sound and radio play artists. Her theatrical search is for the possibilities of contemporary music theater, which she describes as ""OPERationen für Zeitgenossen" (OPERations for contemporaries). Mirjam Schmuck is in her recent creations GAIA, KASSIA and currently in BLACK EURYDICE searching for new strategies in feminist practices and foundation of new shared feminist narratives. Her theatrical work was awarded the Tabori Young Artists Prize in 2015. Since 2018 she has been directing tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg in a collective-collegial leadership model with 6 other artists. She lives with her three children in Bochum.