Tränentochter
This is the third part of the trilogy on genderspecific violence and structures that began with The River (Staubfrau) and continued with Blutschwester. While The River focussed on the middle and Blutschwester on the end of life, Tränentochter looks at the very beginning. What is so-called female socialisation? How powerful are intergenerational trauma and the expectations of our family and society as a whole?

In this play, we meet a woman, young as old, strong as weak, whole as broken, yes, literally broken up into pieces of her own self. Torn like this she takes on herself and the ones who simply cannot let her be.
Work in Progress.

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Blutschwester
Three women meet in this poetic play about life, death, love and anger. Deeply connected in their soldarity and empathy for one another they call upon the ancient furies, create a story of female rising and anger, only to give each other strength in the face of cancer. One of them is dying. And too angry to leave…This is a tale about family and friendship, care and companionship, anger and unresolved conflicts.

"A declaration of the love for life" - nachtkritik.de
World premiere: 27 March 2026 – Saarländisches Staatstheater, dir. Franziska Stuhr

Available in German

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The River / Staubfrau
What would the river talk about if it spoke?The old bike, those worn-out shoes or the old rifles and amunition? All the things that settled in its bed? The bodies, of women. Theresa, raped, murdered and thrown into the river by her neighbour, Uncle Fritz. On the river bank, watching the stream go past, there are the mothers – old and young, the every day battles of getting through the day and all its chores in spite of the slurs, the degradations, the manipulations, the gaslighting… all the violence. And there are men. Men who kill.

The River (German title: Staubfrau) is a highly-poetic indictment of patriarchy. A powerful text about femicide and structural violence against women – one of the most urgent yet often overlooked topics of present and past alike.

Winner of the 2025 Mülheimer Dramatik Award and Audience Award.

"The play of the hour." – St. Gallener Tagblatt
World premiere: 11 January 2025 - Schauspielhaus Zürich, dir. Anna Stiepani

Available in German and English

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When it was summer / Es war Sommer

A play about what it is like to be invisible in today’s society. A woman sits in her empty East Berlin apartment of the last fifty years. This is where she lived with her husband and daughter. This is where she lost them both. Where she saw the wall come down. Where life changed again and again. And now a foreign inverstor has bought the building. She will leave. With nowhere to go.

A man sleeps on a bench by the sea. He too has nowhere to go. So he drifts from town to town, with the only hope to be somewhere warm, once winter arrives.

World premiere: 24 May 2025 – Staatstheater Meiningen, dir. Anna Stiepani

Available in German

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brynhild

This is the seemingly well-known Germanic epic, filled with the old myth of the song of the Nibelungs and its Nordic counterpart the Edda. But old certainties and tales of heroes have begun to crumble.

Not only, Brynhild, the Valkyrie, is forced to free herself from old expectations and brutal intrigue. Sigurd, too, the dragon slayer, he does not fit the ancient idea of the hero anymore. Who decides who we are? Fate, destiny, the Gods, our families – or we ourselves? Together Brynhild and Sigurd write a new story: a story of love, a story of family, a tragedy, a thriller. A wild uprising against the roles laif out for us, against the decision-making of others. With all its bloody consequences.

World premiere: 7 July 2023 – Nibelungenfestspiele Worms, dir. Pınar Karabulut

Available in German

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Peer Gynt (she/her)
Peer Gynt is human. Peer Gynt is a woman. A woman who lies, tricks and cheats. Again and again. She dreams up the wildest tales to escape the hardship of her family life and life in a small Norwegian village. She will be famous. She will be rich. She will be emperor of the world!Who is a woman who seeks riches and fame but does not have a single friend, does not know love or comfort or the true meaning of home? What is the true meaning of home?
Verse and rhmye of the old version make place for the new in this adaptation of Ibsen’s magical theatre text. An old Peer looks back on her younger self, while the younger self chases her future so badly that she misses out on the present.

"To see Peer Gynt, the egomaniac, who takes it all, as a woman, has an effect, lays bare outdated role models." – Süddeutsche Zeitung
World premiere: 25 September 2021 – Theater Regensburg, dir. Julia Prechsl

Available in German and English

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Amelia fliegt!
High above the clouds, around the world. Amelia has only one dream: flying. The young American reaches her goal though courage, discipline and faith. At a time when only very few women could. She is the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger. But she wants more. To become the pilot.This text for an evening of musical theatre for young audiences explores the life of flighing pioneer Amelia Earhart. It’s a funny and inspiring hommage to a great woman.

Theatre for Young Audiences
World premiere: 9 December 2021 – Philharmonie Luxemburg, dir. Tomo Sugao

Available in German and French

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alte sorgen
inspired by Georg Büchner‘s WOYZECK

Kathrin, a carer in a nursing home, tries her best. Despite there not being enough staff, enough time, enough rest. For her residents. To show them love and respect. But neither the system nor her superiors support her. The head nurse urged her to work faster. Residents‘ family members have different opinions. And her own family feels neglected. Until one Alzheimer patient attacks her violently, and makes her question her choices. Following motifs of Büchner’s Woyzeck, this drama focussed on a woman in the underfunded, over-worked care sector. Who cares for those who care for others?

"A female Woyzeck, with a new, feminist approach." – nachtkritik.de  
World premiere: 28 January 2023 – Staatstheater Meiningen, dir. Anna Stiepani

Available in German and Bulgarian

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überleben
Poverity, destruction, wars, racism, sexism, the climate – four teenagers do the reality check. This is not world they want. And they never asked for it. But they can try and change it. How about bombing SHEIN, H&M, capitalism itself? They need something big! A sign! A wake-up call! And embark on a gangerous mission – only to become pawns in a cynical game about the most important of all questions: How to stay alive?

Theatre for Young Audiences
World premiere: 30 April 2022 – Junges Theater Regensburg, dir. Elena Maria Hackbarth

Available in German and Spanish

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Das schaffen wir!
A play about building a wall and getting rid of it. About ideologies and other ideologies and the individulas caught up in them.Commissioned for the 30th anniverary of the fall of the Berlin wall, Das schaffen wir! aims at explaining the historic journey from the building of the wall through the missed-out opportunities oft he reunification prcocess all the way to the of the new Right. A tour de force packed with music and fun for the whole family.

Theatre for Young Audiences
World premiere: 29 Februar 2020 – Junges Theater Regensburg, dir. Elena Maria Hackbarth

Available in German

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Geschichten aus dem Bauwagen
Since our childhood we were supposed to ignore the simple truth that nobody really knows what this life is really about! What happens when our parents don’t have a good-night-story to tell? Because there are neither good parents nor good stories to tell? Then we wake up in a place where the lost ones go – somewhere in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the midst of no-time. And we listen to each others‘ stories. About the father who whispers "my love" into the phone while mom is upstairs taking a shower. About that one friend who took a picture of you in the changing room and sent it to the whole school. About a hand that let go, in the middle of a crowd or in the middle of an ocean. This is the place between sleep and reality, where words learn to dance and the hidden truth behind the stories becomes comfort and a new beginning all at once.

Theatre for Young Audiences

Shortlisted for the German Youth Theatre Award 2020
World premiere: 21 May 2019 – Theater an der Parkaue, dir. Inda Buschmann

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Forever Our Yesterdays / Auf ewig unser Gestern
A house on the boarder. The door that is forever shut, the people, forever here, in this place, forever and ever. In this polyphonic play Maria Milisavljević calls upon the ghost of generations. In the past as in the present "the world is on fire“. Inside the voices of the past can be heard through the fears of generations. Stories, letters and songs layer on top of other, and if anyone – like "the little one“ – tries to uncover the truth, new answer will erase old fact and create new memories. 

"A text digging going beyond the present to dig deep into the layers of historical conscience." – Theater heute

"Language that glows" – Munich Merkur
World premiere: 23 June 2018 – Residenztheater Munich, dir. Franziska Angerer

Available in German, English, and Friaul

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Noise / Beben
The Noise. It’s too much. I can’t concentrate. Make it stop. Now! Look, Mrs. Wilson, she walks up the the radio tower, she wants to stop the noise. What’s that now? She fell. Is she dead? Yuck, that’s disgusting. Video games, neon-coloured pants, are the Eighties back, and did you hear the lasted news….? The noise turns into a quake. The Earth shakes. And suddenly there are men with guns. Here, take one. Take cover, now shoot. And the man at the edge of Ulro laughs. He’s got what he wanted. Yet again. But then the impossible happens: when the mother who lost her child reaches out her hand to man who killed her boy. It’s time. Take heart! Let’s not be afraid. Or love.

The jury of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt about Noise: "Maria Milisavljević wants us to identify with a society on the brink of real political conflict that had retreated into the virtual realm of no committments. With fierce and powerful pathos she asks us to reclaim love as a tool of societal change. In doing so, she proves her utmost belief in the possibility of the utopic rather than falling for the fatalism of so-called reason".

Winner of the Author Price of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt, first price at the 2016 Else-Lasker-Schüler Stückepreis, nominated for the 2018 Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the 2016 Theatertreffen Stückemarkt.
World premiere: 13 April 2017 – Pfalztheater Kaiserlautern, dir. Fanny Brunner

Available in German, English, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese

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Abyss / Brandung
Karla, 24, is gone. I, HE, SHE are looking for her. For days. For weeks. Their friend disappeared. Never returned after a run to the grocery store. The river freezes over. Karla remains gone. Her friends suspect the worst, never stop looking, and in all that they love, desperately – until they lose each other. It is a thriller, a working-class drama, a play about belonging and losing, and simply "a beautiful piece of writing, with lines like lapping waves and occasional breaks into roaring poetry.“(Matt Trueman, What’s on Stage)

“This poetic drama is genuinely artful. […] it will take you places you didn’t expect to go “ – Ben Brantley, New York Times

“There hasn’t been as gripping a piece of theatre as Abyss on a Toronto stage in a long while. “ – Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail

Winner of the 2013 Kleist Promotional Award. Nominated for the 2015 Dora Mavor More Award in the Category "Outstanding New Play".
World premiere: 5 June 2013 – Ruhfestspiele Recklinghausen (in co-production with Deutsches Theater Berlin), dir. Christopher Rüping

Available in German, English, and Spanish

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