Bettina Kirmair
Bettina Kirmair was born in Dachau in 1987. After training as a media designer, she studied stage and costume design with Prof. Katrin Brack at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2010 to 2017. In 2016/2017, she also worked as an artistic assistant to Prof. Katrin Brack at the AdBK. During her studies, guest assistantships took her to the Akademietheater in Vienna and the Münchner Kammerspiele. After graduating, she worked as a permanent set design assistant at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg during the 2017/18 season.
Since the end of 2018, she has been living in Munich and working freelance at theaters in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Her directing colleagues include Stephanie van Batum, Susanne Frieling, Lizzy Timmers, Asli Kişlal, Lorenz Nolting, Mikheil Charkviani, Sebastian Nübling, and the collectives #monike and Wunderbaum. The resulting productions have been shown on the following stages, among others: Thalia Theater Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theaterhaus Jena, Landestheater Niederösterreich, Gessnerallee in Zurich, and the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen.
In 2017, she was nominated as Best Young Stage Designer in the Theater heute critics’ poll. For her diploma thesis WARTEN AUF ROMEO (WAITING FOR ROMEO), she received a grant from the Brigitte and Ekkehard Grübler Foundation and won first prize in the national competition WHAT IS LOVE? organized by the Kunsthalle Bremen in cooperation with Monopol magazine.
