With the new artistic directorship of Kay Voges at Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will become part of the artistic team. As resident playwright and director, he will join the team around the head dramaturg, Alexander Kerlin, starting with the 2025/26 season.
Calle Fuhr was born in Düsseldorf in 1994. He was an assistant director at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Wiener Festwochen and the Volkstheater Vienna. He has been working as an author and director since 2017 at Theater Basel, Volkstheater Vienna and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, among others.
Research theater and radio
Fuhr is considered one of the most renowned representatives of research theater. He regularly works with investigative media such as DOSSIER and CORRECTIV and has created works about real estate mogul René Benko, the fossil fuel companies LEAG and OMV, and the debt brake. Fuhr’s plays have been translated into several languages and invited to various festivals. His play Aufstieg und Fall des Herrn René Benko (The Rise and Fall of Mr. René Benko) by Volkstheater Vienna in cooperation with DOSSIER will be part of this year’s Radikal jung Festival in Munich.
He is also a regular guest at the Berliner Ensemble. The NDR wrote about his most recent work, Atlas, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: “We need theater like this. Wide awake, enlightening, sparkling with wisdom. Especially now.”
He also appears frequently on radio programs – including on Ö1, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. He was invited to the Berlinale 2025 as part of the “Series Market” for his work on the series “Shit Happens”.
Theater Cologne
At Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will continue his collaboration with CORRECTIV and take on responsibility for the focus area “Theater and Journalism”. As an integral part of the team, he will also build bridges to the city’s society and research innovative formats.