Katja Brunner

Katja Brunner studied creative writing in the Bienne Literary Institute, as well as dramatic writing in Berlin’s University of the Arts. In 2010, she wrote Trop courte des jambes, her first play which won an award for best dramatic play in Mühlheim in 2013; that same year, she was voted young author of the year by Theater heute Magazine. Her plays were performed in Zurich’s Schauspielhaus, Cologne’s Schauspiel, Leipzig’s Schauspiel, Sankt Gallen Theatre or Berlin’s Volksbühne. Brunner was a guest professor in the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig for the 2020/21 season and she teaches in the Bienne Literary Institute. She is part of the dramatic writers collective Institut für chauvinistische Weiterbildung, and she regularly writes essays for newspapers while performing in many festivals with musician Sophie Aeberli, with whom she forms the Loretta Shapiro duet. In the spring of 2022, two of her plays with her signature feminist style will debut in Schauspiel Leipzig (Die Kunst der Wunde) and Schauspiel Köln (a rewriting of Shakespeare’s Richard III).