Katharina Schmitt

Katharina Schmitt works as a director and playwright in theatre, opera and radio. She stages her own plays and adaptations of texts by other authors and has collaborated with international theatres and festivals, including Oper Köln, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Munich Biennale, Gare du Nord Basel, Festival Musica Strasbourg and National Theatre Prague. In cooperation with composers, Schmitt develops stagings and music theatre projects as a director and librettist. In 2017, she directed Jiří Kadeřábek's opera No Man for the Prague National Theatre, in 2018 she wrote the libretto and directed the world premiere of Everything Goes to Plan, a music theatre piece by composer Ondřej Adámek, at the Munich Biennale. In 2018 she wrote the text Molyneux's Problem, which she staged, with mus