Tarun Kade

Tarun Kade, born 1984 in Munich, studied theater, philosophy and English literature in Munich and Bristol. From 2009 to 2011 he was dramaturg at Thalia Theater Hamburg, and from 2012 to 2015 he worked as such at Theater Bremen. From 2015 to 2020 Tarun Kade was dramaturg at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the last two seasons in a leading position. In each of these two years, the Kammerspiele was voted "Theater of the Year" in the Theater heute critics' poll. Tarun Kade is co-founder of the working methods platform modesofoperation.com, which portrays the working methods of a newer generation of theater professionals in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. For the 2022 festival edition, Tarun Kade was program dramaturg at the Wiener Festwochen. Since then, he has worked as a freelance production dramaturg and programmer at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Wiener Festwochen, and in the independent performing arts, among others. He also teaches and mentors at colleges and universities and acts as a jury member.