Kathrin Mädler (born 1976) is a German dramaturge, theatre director and artistic director..

Life

Born in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

, Mädler studied

dramaturgy Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the Representation (arts), representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. The term first appears in the eponymous work ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ...

as well as theatre and literature at the

Ludwig Maximilian University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

Munich and the

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding The Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (English: Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding) at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, was founded by August Everding in 1993. Since September 2014, the Academy has been directed by Hans-Jürgen Dr ...

. Further studies in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

in Irvine followed before she graduated and received her doctorate in Munich. After teaching at the LMU Munich and the WWU Münster, she was a guest assistant director at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Burgtheater Vienna. In 2005, she was hired at the

Staatstheater Nürnberg The Staatstheater Nürnberg is a German theatre company in Nuremberg, Bavaria. The theatre is one of four Bavarian state theatres and shows operas, plays, ballets and concerts. History Its main venue, the opera house ("Opernhaus Nürnberg"), i ...

as a dramaturge and director. From there, she went to the Münster Theatre in 2012 as a senior dramaturge. In 2016, she left Münster and went to the

Landestheater Schwaben The Landestheater Schwaben is an ensemble based in Memmingen in Upper Swabia. The ensemble's main venue is the Stadttheater Memmingen. The artistic director of the ensemble has been Kathrin Mädler since 2016. As a state theater, the Landestheater ...

Memmingen Memmingen (; Swabian: ''Memmenge'') is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the economic, educational and administrative centre of the Danube-Iller region. To the west the town is flanked by the Iller, the river that marks the Baden-Wü ...

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the ...

. In July 2020, it was announced that the Zweckverband des Landestheaters Schwaben had extended Intendant Mädler's contract by five years. At the 2019 Federal Theatre Award, the Landestheater Schwaben had been one of the eleven prize winners. Since June 2019, Mädler has been, together with

Hasko Weber Hasko Weber (born 10 December 1963) is a German actor and theatre director. Life Weber was born in Dresden. After his Abitur, he first did an apprenticeship as a machine and plant fitter and then trained as an actor from 1985 to 1989 at the The ...

, chairwoman of the Intendants' Group at the

Deutscher Bühnenverein The Deutscher Bühnenverein is an organization representing 430 theatres, opera houses, drama, ballet and opera companies and orchestras in Germany. It is involved in artistic, legal, organisational and political questions relevant to its members a ...

. In 2022, she will take over as artistic director of the

Theater Oberhausen Theater Oberhausen is a theatre in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW () ...

in the Rhineland.Dr. Kathrin Mädler wird neue Intendantin im Theater
on Oberhausen.de

References

Dramaturges German theatre directors German women theatre directors People from Osnabrück 1976 births Living people {{theat-director-stub