artists

Veronika Schwarz (AT)

is a dramaturg and performer specializing in contemporary theater, performance and transdisciplinary work. Engagements as a performer in Graz and Vienna 2002-2007, including Steirischen Herbst, Theater am Ortweinplatz, Kristallwerk Graz, UniT, Retzhof Literature Festival. Dramaturgical work and text development in 2009 for the Cocon association, direction and artistic direction in 2008 Los locos de Valencia (University of Vienna, Instituto Cervantes). Production dramaturgy Faust (2011) and The Young Hitler (2012) for the Neuebühnevillach (director: Manfred Lukas Luderer), 2013-2014 engagement with the Landestheater Linz (dramaturgy/drama direction/KBBs) and artistic collaboration with Parzifal of the artist collective Fura dels Baus. In 2017 as a performer in Waiting for Godot (director: Markus Plattner) and in 2018 the dramaturgical development of the theater performance We are the people in the partial collective (director: Matthias Rankov). 2018-19 Dramaturgy, concept development and performance for Silberberg (UA Felix Mitterer/Director: Markus Plattner). She was awarded the City of Graz’s Promotion Prize for Young Theater (2003) and the Premio Erasmo literary award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2008).