Karin Neuhäuser*
The actress Karin Neuhäuser attended drama school in Bochum. In 1992 she joined Theater an der Ruhr under Roberto Ciulli, where she remained until 1999. There she played, among other roles, the landowner Ranevskaya in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, touring with the production to Belgrade, Bogotá, Sarajevo, and Tehran.
She worked with Johann Kresnik (Richard III) at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin and appeared as a guest at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in productions by Falk Richter and Luk Perceval. With Luk Perceval she played Anna Petrovna in Chekhov’s Platonov and participated in his Molière project.
From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the ensemble at Schauspielhaus Zurich, where she worked with Christoph Marthaler, Stefan Pucher, Jan Bosse, and Falk Richter. From 2010 to 2022 she was a permanent member of the Thalia Theater Hamburg ensemble, to which she continues to be associated as a guest. She currently also appears at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in King Oedipus, directed by Karin Beier.
Since 2000, Karin Neuhäuser has also regularly directed her own productions in Münster, at Staatstheater Kassel, in Frankfurt am Main, at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and at Thalia Theater Hamburg.
She appears in various film and television productions and has received several awards, including the Theatre Prize of the Association of German Critics. For her role in Stefan Pucher’s Andersen. Trip Between Worlds at the Thalia Theater, she received the Rolf Mares Prize in 2010 for “Outstanding Acting Achievement.” In 2017 she was awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST for her performance in Wut/Rage (dir. Sebastian Nübling).
Dancing Idiots is her first collaboration with Thorsten Lensing.
She worked with Johann Kresnik (Richard III) at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin and appeared as a guest at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in productions by Falk Richter and Luk Perceval. With Luk Perceval she played Anna Petrovna in Chekhov’s Platonov and participated in his Molière project.
From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the ensemble at Schauspielhaus Zurich, where she worked with Christoph Marthaler, Stefan Pucher, Jan Bosse, and Falk Richter. From 2010 to 2022 she was a permanent member of the Thalia Theater Hamburg ensemble, to which she continues to be associated as a guest. She currently also appears at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in King Oedipus, directed by Karin Beier.
Since 2000, Karin Neuhäuser has also regularly directed her own productions in Münster, at Staatstheater Kassel, in Frankfurt am Main, at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and at Thalia Theater Hamburg.
She appears in various film and television productions and has received several awards, including the Theatre Prize of the Association of German Critics. For her role in Stefan Pucher’s Andersen. Trip Between Worlds at the Thalia Theater, she received the Rolf Mares Prize in 2010 for “Outstanding Acting Achievement.” In 2017 she was awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST for her performance in Wut/Rage (dir. Sebastian Nübling).
Dancing Idiots is her first collaboration with Thorsten Lensing.
Productions
Vivian Phoenix