Felicitas Brucker
Felicitas Brucker was born in Stuttgart and studied theatre, communication and literature in Munich. She then received a postgraduate scholarship to study directing at Goldsmith College London, where she realised her first works. This was followed by productions at the Munich Kammerspiele, the Maxim Gorki Theatre, the Schauspielhaus Vienna, the Thalia Theatre Hamburg, the Theater Freiburg, the Schauspiel Hannover, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Theater Basel, the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
In 2007, she received the Berlin Art Prize’s award for performing arts. In the same year, she was invited to the “Radikal Jung” festival in Munich. From 2009 to 2014, she worked as resident director at the Schauspielhaus Wien, during which time she developed many texts in close collaboration with contemporary authors.
Her works have been invited to the Mülheim Theatre Festival and the Berlin Authors’ Theatre Festival on several occasions. With her work ‘Nora’ at the Munich Kammerspiele, she was invited to the Berlin Theatre Meeting in 2023 and was nominated by Theater heute in the category ‘Production of the Year’ in the same year. In recent years, she has directed at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Schauspielhaus Bochum, and in 2025 she was involved in the opening of the new artistic directorship of the Vienna Volkstheater with her production of Michael Haneke’s Caché. Since 2020, she has been collaborating regularly with the Münchner Kammerspielen.
