Birgit Lengers

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Birgit Lengers (born October 21, 1970 in Hanover ) is a German dramaturge , cultural mediator and theater scholar .

Training and work

Birgit Lengers studied theater, film and cultural studies / aesthetic practice in Cologne and Hildesheim . From 1997 to 2002 she was a research assistant at the University of Hildesheim . From May 1997 to November 2003 she was a producer and dramaturge at Theater T1 and worked here on six productions in Berlin ( Sophiensäle ), Münster ( Theater im Pumpenhaus ) and Cologne together with the director Thorsten Lensing .

From October 2004 to October 2008 she worked as a dramaturge at the German Theater Abroad (GTA) and was also responsible for the conception and implementation of transatlantic festivals and theater projects.

In addition, she was repeatedly active as a guest lecturer at the University of Hildesheim and the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin and as a presenter at the Berlin Festival Theatertreffen . She was a juror at the 1st and 2nd Citizens' Stage Festival ( Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Nationaltheater Mannheim ), the Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin and the Heidelberger Stückemarkt . From 2002 to 2015 she was a board member of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft (dg), since 2005 as deputy chairwoman and initiator of the working group “Children's and Young People's Theater / Theater Education”.

In the 2009/10 season, Birgit Lengers took over the management of the artistic division of Junge DT and theater education at the Deutsches Theater Berlin  (until November 2011 together with Barbara Kantel). Since 2013 she has also been a member of the theater management (directorate). As a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, she works with directors such as  Nora Schlocker , Kirill Serebrennikov , Dušan David Pařízek , Joanna Praml, Jessica Glause , Alexander Riemenschneider, Salome Dastmalchi, Martin Grünheit, Tobias Rausch , Wojtek Klemm, Turbo Pascal and Jan Friedrich .

Since 2018 Lengers has also headed the "DT International" division and curated the "Radar Ost" festival.

Dramaturgical work (selection)

  • 1996: The King dies / The last days of humanity by Eugene Ionesco / Karl Kraus "The King dies / The last days of humanity", director: Thorsten Lensing , in "Die Halle", Cologne
  • 1998: Quai West by Bernard-Marie Koltès , director: Thorsten Lensing , Sophiensäle Berlin and in the theater in the pump house in Münster.
  • 2006: Herniated disc by Ingrid Lausund , director: Simone Blattner as part of the “City Theater New York” project at the HERE Arts Center in New York.
  • 2007: Roof of Great Promise , a scenic reading series with new American drama for the 50th anniversary of the House of World Cultures .
  • 2007: Start Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig , director: Ronald Marx. The production toured from New York to Los Angeles for six weeks as part of the “Road Theater USA” project. The project, documented by ZDF , ended in 2008 with the guest appearance Coming Home in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and was presented in the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt .
  • 2011: Tschick , based on the novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf , director: Alexander Riemenschneider, Deutsches Theater Berlin , premiere on December 3, 2011
  • 2013: Fluchtpunkt Berlin , research by Tobias Rausch , director. Tobias Rausch, Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, world premiere on January 9, 2013
  • 2014: Tod.Sünde.7 , director: Wojtek Klemm, Deutsches Theater Berlin Kammerspiele, premiere on May 8, 2014, invited to the 1st Citizens' Stage Festival in Dresden
  • 2015: Alice based on Lewis Carroll , directed by Nora Schlocker , Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, premiere on February 8, 2015
  • 2015: Jugend.Erinnerung 1945/2016, a trinational project, director: Uta Plate, Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, premiere on November 15, 2015
  • 2016: Exchange office, a theatrical trading zone for Berliners from all over the world. Artistic directors: Ruth Feindel and Frank Oberhäupter, Deutsches Theater Berlin, world premiere on May 1, 2016
  • 2017: Katzelmacher by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , director: Jessica Glause, Deutsches Theater Berlin Kammerspiele, premiere on February 6, 2017
  • 2017: Nobody, tragedy in seven pictures by Ödön von Horváth , director: Dušan David Pařízek , Deutsches Theater Berlin Kammerspiele, premiere on March 25, 2017
  • 2017: Auerhaus , based on the novel by Bov Bjerg , director: Nora Schlocker, Deutsches Theater Berlin Kammerspiele, premiere on May 21, 2017
  • 2017: America , based on the novel “ Der Verschollene ” by Franz Kafka , director: Dušan David Pařízek, Deutsches Theater Berlin, premiere on September 27, 2017
  • 2018: Tiger milk based on the novel by Stefanie de Velasco , director: Wojtek Klemm, Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, premiere on January 10, 2018, invited to the Mittelfest 2018 festival, Italy
  • 2018: Daredevil (All Adventurous Women Do) by Tanja Sljivar, director: Salome Dastmalchi, Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, premiere on April 15, 2018, invited to the Wildwechsel Festival 2019 in the Junge Staatstheater Parchim and also in 2019 to Novi Sad / Serbia for the Festival Sterijino Pozorie and the Dramatists Festival 2019 in Belgrade
  • 2019: The plan for the abolition of darkness based on the novel by Peter Høeg , director: Nora Schlocker, Deutsches Theater Berlin Kammerspiele, premiere on February 12, 2019
  • 2019: 30nach89 (Talking About Your Generation) trinational project, director: Uta Plate, Deutsches Theater Berlin Box, premiere on October 19, 2019
  • 2020: Decamerone by Kirill Serebrennikov based on motifs by Giovanni Boccaccio in ten stories, director: Kirill Serebrennikov, Deutsches Theater Berlin, premiere on March 8, 2020, premiere at Moscow's Gogol Center on June 25, 2020

Publications (selection)

  • Hüning, Birgit: ChorKollektivKritik. In: Gromes, Hartwin / Kurzenberger, Hajo (eds.) “Theatertheorie scenic”. Hildesheim, pp. 90-109, 2000
  • Birgit Lengers: A PS in the media age - media means, masks and metaphors in the theater by René Pollesch . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Text + criticism. “Theater for the 21st Century” (special volume 2004), pp. 141–153.
  • Birgit Lengers: The political in children and youth theater. In Theater der Zeit , January 2005, issue 1, p. 71.
  • Birgit Lengers: Cultural Management Special. Child and youth culture. Online magazine, 2005
  • Birgit Lengers .: Playback. Insert (24 pages) in Theater der Zeit, June 2005. Focus on children's and youth theater (concept and editing).
  • Birgit Lengers: No child without stories. In: Theater der Zeit, February 2006, issue 2, pp. 72–73.
  • Birgit Lengers, Tobias Rausch, Heiner Remmert (eds.) Magic Fonds (reports on the magical power of capital) Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2013
  • Participation-oriented cultural mediation - discourses and concepts for a realignment of publicly funded cultural life. Editor: Birgit Mandel - Text by Ulrich Khuon and Birgit Lengers: "In - Out - In between" - strategies for dealing with the threshold at the Deutsches Theater Berlin

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personal data
SURNAME Lengers, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, cultural mediator and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover