Sara Ostertag

Sara Ostertag (* 1985 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater director and theater maker .

Life

Sara Ostertag studied theater directing and choreography at the Zurich University of the Arts with Milo Rau and in Amsterdam. In 2010 she co-founded the makemake productions association . Since then she has worked as a theater director at the Dschungel Wien, the Landestheater Niederösterreich , the Vorarlberger Landestheater , the Oldenburgische Staatstheater , the Philharmonie Luxembourg , the Kopergietery in Gent , the Theater Konstanz and the Festival Wien Modern . At the State Theater Mainz Ostertag worked for 3 years as a house director from the season 2014/2015. Since 2016, Ostertag has been artistic director of the SCHÄXPIR Festival for Young Audiences in Linz together with Julia Ransmayr . Since 2017 she has also worked as a dramaturge for Florentina Holzinger , whose plays are performed worldwide. In 2018 Sara Ostertag completed the postgraduate course in curating in the scenic arts at the University of Salzburg .

2012 The seal woman's child , makemake productions, Dschungel Wien, Wien Modern

2014 Work in progress: Neustadt , State Theater Mainz

2014 Gold by Leonard Evers based on the Grimm fairy tale, Staatstheater Mainz

2014 The fox who lost his mind according to Martin Baltscheit , Staatstheater Oldenburg

2015 Spinnerling by Simon van der Geest , Staatstheater Mainz

2015 Antigone after Sophocles , State Theater Oldenburg

2016 In the future: Mainz , State Theater Mainz

2017 I can see you from the future , Staatstheater Mainz

2017 Atlas of the remote islands after Judith Schalansky , Landestheater Vorarlberg , Wien Modern

2017 The Bear That Wasn't There according to Oren Lavie , Staatstheater Oldenburg

2017 Mother tongue Mameloschn by Sasha Marianna Salzmann , Kosmos Theater Wien (co-production makemake productions)

2018 The Löwenherz brothers based on Astrid Lindgren, Theater Konstanz

2018 From the Wild Women based on Martin Auer , makemake productions & DSCHUNGEL Vienna

2018 Request from Gesine Schmidt, Kosmos Theater Wien (co-production makemake productions)

2019 The Language of Water by Sarah Crossan , Landestheater Niederösterreich

2019 Homo Deus Frankenstein , Kopergietery Gent, KLARA Festival, SCHÄXPIR Linz, with makemake productions

2019 Andersland , State Theater Oldenburg with makemake productions

2019 The big issue based on the novel by Ágota Kristóf , Kosmos Theater Wien (co-production makemake produktionen)

2019 Haummas nice? , with Christine Nöstlinger's stories through 100 years of municipal housing , Volkstheater Vienna

2017 Apollon Musagéte , at CAMPO Gent. Concept and performance: Florentina Holzinger; Dramaturgy: Sara Ostertag & Michele Rizzo
2019 Dance , in the Tanzquartier Wien . Concept, performance, choreography: Florentina Holzinger; Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag

Allianz scholarship
international dance web scholarship
2015 Theodor Körner Prize for Art
2015 START scholarship for performing arts
2017 STELLA * 17 Performing.Art.Prize for a young audience
2018 Nestroy Prize in the Best Off-Production category for the staging of the mother tongue Mameloschn in a co-production of the Kosmos Theater with the Viennese collective makemake produktionen

2018 Nomination for the Nestroy Prize in the Special Prize category for Apollon Musagéte (Dramaturgy: Sara Ostertag & Michele Rizzo)

2020 nomination at the Nachtkritik Theatertreffen for Das große Heft at the Kosmos Theater Vienna.

2020 nomination for the special price of the Dorothea Neff Prize for her impressive logistical performance in her work Haummas net schee