Fritzi Wartenberg (GER/AT)
Authors / Theater / Directors / Theater
Fritzi Wartenberg is a director and author. In the season 22/23, she is resident director in the Werkraum of the Berliner Ensemble as part of a one-year residency. Fritzi Wartenberg was born in Cologne and grew up in Salzburg, Austria. She studied comparative literature at the University of Vienna and theater directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. As a co-founder of the FTZN collective, she develops pieces with a feminist focus, both text and direction.
AWARDS
2023 – Helene Weigel Theater Prize
Selected direction projects
MONTE ROSA by Teresa Dopler
25.05.2024
Theater Luzern, CH
Catharina Margaretha Linck was born in Gehofen, Thuringia, in 1687. At the age of 15, Linck took control of their life by breaking out of an orphanage and assuming a new identity as Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, living life as a man from that moment on. They were subsequently drafted into the military, soon gained the reputation of a ladies’ man with the help of a “leather tool”, deserted the army, were sentenced to death, managed to escape, married young Catharina Mühlhahn, for which they ended up in court and were finally sentenced to death. Anastasius was the last person born as biologically female to be executed in Europe for fornication with another woman in 1721.
MALINA by Ingeborg Bachmann
27.03.2024
Berliner Ensemble
„Director Fritzi Wartenberg, who is producing at the Berliner Ensemble as part of the “Worx” program to promote young talent, has turned the original [text] into an entertaining evening worth seeing, which in the end justifiably inspires enthusiasm in the Werkraum in the Berliner Ensemble’s new building.” – Berliner Morgenpost (quote originally in German)
ALIAS ANASTASIUS by Matter*Verse
2023
Berliner Ensemble
Catharina Margaretha Linck was born in Gehofen, Thuringia, in 1687. At the age of 15, Linck took control of their life by breaking out of an orphanage and assuming a new identity as Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, living life as a man from that moment on. They were subsequently drafted into the military, soon gained the reputation of a ladies’ man with the help of a “leather tool”, deserted the army, were sentenced to death, managed to escape, married young Catharina Mühlhahn, for which they ended up in court and were finally sentenced to death. Anastasius was the last person born as biologically female to be executed in Europe for fornication with another woman in 1721.
THE WRITER by Ella Hickson
2022
Berliner Ensemble
„Director Fritzi Wartenberg, who is producing at the Berliner Ensemble as part of the “Worx” program to promote young talent, has turned the original [text] into an entertaining evening worth seeing, which in the end justifiably inspires enthusiasm in the Werkraum in the Berliner Ensemble’s new building.” – Berliner Morgenpost (quote originally in German)