Anne Sophie Kapsner (GER)
Authors / Theater / Directors / Theater
works as a theatre director, author and artistic researcher. Anne studied theatre studies and language, literature and culture with a focusing on Swedish at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at Stockholm University [2010-2014]. From 2014 to 2020, she studied theatre directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
From 2020 to 2022, Anne was assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Anne’s interdisciplinary works move in the border area between documentation, drama and pop aesthetics. They are usually based on biographical events.
For NUR DIE LIEBE ZÄHLT, haben sie gesagt [Pathos Theater München, Staatstheater Mainz], Anne explored love in capitalism and also appeared on stage as a performer herself. Anne receives regular funding from the Fonds Darstellende Künste. In 2024, Anne will work with Falk Richter at Dramaten Stockholm on the production King Lear. Anne is fluent in Swedish.
Awards:
2022-2025 Future Laboratory – Scholarship holder of the international network with artistic research residencies in Poland (Nowy Teatr, 2023), Romania (Teatrul Tineretului, 2024), Madrid (Condeduque and Goethe Madrid, 2024) and a project presentation in Luxembourg (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, 2024)
Works
Emina by Ivan Vlatković (Winner of the audience award)
July 5, 2025
Lange Nacht der neuen Dramatik, Münchner Kammerspiele
Die Gesetzlosen, stage Adaptation of the novel ‚Outlawed‘ by Anna North
Mai 8, 2025
Premiere: Theaterhaus Jena
Ja mei, wohin soll’s schon gehen - Ein Hörspaziergang mit und über Therese Giehse
March 6, 2025
Premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele
[Without Title] - Spatial installation and concept presentation
November 29, 2024
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg / Future Laboratory
What you don’t see or Eating Trauma
January 2024
Premiere: Pathos Theater München
ALLES GOLD, nichts glänzt - based on Platonov by Tschechow
June 2021
Premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele
Der Ursprung der Welt by Liv Strömquist
2018
German Premiere: studio NAXOS Frankfurt