Tobias Rausch

Tobias Rausch has been working as a director and author at numerous municipal theaters and venues of the independent scene since 2001. He is co-founder of the collective LUNATIKS, of which he was a member until 2015. Since 2019, he has been the director of Bürger:Bühne at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. His work focuses on research projects and on productions about climate & nature, such as the botanical long-term theater DIE WELT OHNE UNS (2009-2014) or the climate theater disaster TORNADO. He was awarded, among others, the Otto-Kasten-Preis of the Intendantengruppe im Deutschen Bühnenverein 2012 and the Bremer Autoren- und Produzentenpreis 2007. Together with composer Marc Sinan and director Konrad Kästner, he won the NO!peras competition in the Experimental Music Theater Fund 2019 with the opera project CHAOSMOS. He has held teaching positions at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Zurich University of the Arts, and the Berlin University of the Arts, among others. Together with Ruth Feindel and Birgit Lengers, he curated the Berlin Recherchetheatertage at the Deutsches Theater (2016) and initiated the conference "Climate Meets Theater" at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2019.