Nele Stuhler

Nele Stuhler was born in Osterburg (Altmark) in 1989 and grew up in Berlin. She studied philosophy in Berlin, applied theater studies in Gießen, directing in Zurich and completed the FORUM TEXT course at uniT Graz. She works as an author, director and performer and writes alone and with others. Her work Mauerschau was created in 2017 at the Sophiensaele in Berlin and was invited to the Graz Playwrights Festival, the Out-Now Festival Bremen and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, among others, and was realized as a radio play by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. For her play Fische she received the Munich encouragement award for German-language drama in 2016 and the Else Lasker-Schüler play prize in 2018. With her theater group FUX, she has been creating her own works since 2011 at the Basel Fuel Festival, the Gießen City Theater, the Vienna Schauspielhaus, the Munich Kammerspiele, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt and the HAU Berlin. She also works closely with Jan Koslowski, with whom she developed works at the Ballhaus Ost Berlin, the Kunsthalle Rostock, the Ruhrtriennale Master Class and the Schauspiel Frankfurt, among others.