Maria holds the 13th Poetics Lecture (Poetikdozentur) in Saarbrücken.

Maria receives the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Award for her life’s work.

She is writing her first novel and finishes the play trilogy on gender-specific violence that she began with The River and Blutschwester.

Blutschwester opens in March in Saarbrücken. Almost at the same time as Noise in Tokyo, Still Loading at Theater Winkelwiese in Zurich and an epilogue to Kleist’s The Broken Jug in Karlsruhe - a 14-page ending to this classic, focussing on the injustices in the justice system when it comes to the prosection of violence against women.

Maria is now represented by Suhrkamp Theater Verlag.

The River (German: Staubfrau) opens at Schauspielhaus Zurich in January (dir. Anna Stiepani) and wins the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and Audience Award in May.

Blutschwester is created as a collective process at Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken (dir. Franziska Stuhr). When it was summer (dir. Anna Stiepani) opens at Staatstheater Meiningen in May. HOPE, a production by NITE Groningen (dir. Guy Wizeman), opens at Thalia Theater Hamburg, with texts by Maria. A second and third production of The River open at Theater Oberhausen and Schauspiel Leipzig.

Maria is a mentor at Sarajevo Theatre Showcase’s Atelier for Playwrights. 

In November immmermeeehr opens at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, composed by Gordon Kampe. It is Maria’s first libretto.

Still Loading and überleben (Sobrevivir) are invited to Theaterwelten-Festival in Mexico City. Überleben is also presented in Guatemala City.

brynhild has a two-week run, showing to an audience of over 20,000 people, at the Nibelungenfestspiele in Worms.

alte sorgen opens in February (dir. Anna Stiepani). After Noise at the Burgtheater in 2019, this is the second collaboration with Stiepani as director and Thurid Peine as costume and stage designer.  

Maria begins working on brynhild for Nibelungenfestspiele Worms 2023.

Überleben (dir. Elena Maria Hackbarth) opens at Theater Regensburg as well as Amelia fliegt! and Maria’s residency in Regensburg comes to an end.

Bruchstücke. bruised not broken – an anthology including the German and English versions of Abyss/ Brandung, Noise/ Beben and About a Woman/ geteilt is published by S. Fischer.

Maria becomes a playwight-in-residence at Theater Regensburg. Peer Gynt (she/her) is her opening performance, directed by Julia Prechsl.

New Stages South East of the Goethe Instutites in Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, Bukarest, Thessaloniki, Nikosia and Sarajevo begins and will continue until 2023. Maria is one of the mentors.

During the pandemic Maria’s plays can be seen online: Happy Delivery Express for Tarragon Theatre Toronto, Nachttag (dir. Lydia Ziemke) at Theater Münster, and the theatre film geteilt (dir. Julia Prechsl) for Schauspiel Stuttgart.

Before theatres close worldwide, Das schaffen wir! (dir. Elena Maria Hackbarth) opens at Theater Regensburg and Beben (揺れる) opens as a production of Tokyo Engeki Ensemble, directed by Yoshinori Koke.

Geschichten aus dem Bauwagen is shortlisted for the German Youth Theatre Award.

geteilt opens at Deutsches Theater Göttingen, directed by Moritz Beichl. Amelia fliegt! opens at Philharmonie Luxemburg, directed by Tomo Sugao. Geschichten aus dem Bauwagen opens at Theater an der Parkaue Berlin (dir. Inda Buschmann).

Noise is read at Yard Theatre in London as part of a festival for New European Plays (dir. Abigail Graham) and opens at Burgtheater Vienna, directed by Anna Stiepani.

Noise is nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis.

Maria takes part in the writers‘ residency „Welt/Bühne“ at Residenztheater Munich.

Noise opens in two productions as Tremor in Porto Alegre, Brasil. One by Grupo Jugo (dir. Luccas Sima), the other by Cia Rustica (dir. Patricia Fagundes).

Noise opens in Toronto at the Randolph Academy for Performing Arts, directed by Birgit Schreyer-Duarte.

Noise is produced at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (dir. Fanny Brunner), Theater Heidelberg (dir. Erich Sidler), and Theater an der Parkaue Berlin (dir. Volker Metzler).

Noise wins the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Play-Award, the Award of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt, and is nominated for the Theatertreffen-Stückemarkt.

Maria takes part in the writers' residency Infiziert! at Schauspielhaus Vienna, lead by Jörg Albrecht.

Abyss (Abismo) opens in Mexico City, directed by Ana Graham.

Abyss goes on a "world-tour" and is nominated for the Dora Mavor More Award in the Category "Outstanding New Play".

After opening at Tarragon Theatre Toronto, directed by Richard Rose, Abyss opens at the Arcola Theatre in London (dir. Jacqui Honess-Martin), as a PlayCo Production at the Theatre Lab New York (dir. Maria Mileaf), and at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna (dir. Sandra Schüddekopf).

Maria receives her Ph.D..

Maria becomes the International Playwright-in-Residence at Tarragon Theatre Toronto.

Brandung (Abyss) wins the Kleist Promotional Award and opens at Deutsches Theater Berlin (dir. Christopher Rüping).

Maria works at Tarragon Theatre as an Assistant Director and Script Coordinator on several productions, including Hannah Moscovitch’s This is War.

Maria runs an independent theatre company.

Maria interns at Landestheater Niederbayern.

Maria interns and works Front-of-House at the London Palladium.