Bir­git
Len­gers

Bir­git Len­gers is an in­terme­di­ary ar­tist, dra­maturg, cu­rator, and Ar­tistic Di­rec­tor of Stadt:Kol­lektiv, the par­ti­cipa­tory di­visi­on at the Düssel­dorf Scha­us­pi­el­ha­us. She thinks and works ac­ross bo­un­da­ri­es — whet­her to­pog­raphi­cal, trans­cul­tu­ral, or in­terdis­cipli­nary. Af­ter fi­ve years of te­ac­hing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hil­de­she­im and wor­king in the in­de­pen­dent the­ater sce­ne — inc­lu­ding with di­rec­tor Thors­ten Len­sing and as a pro­ject de­velo­per at Ger­man The­ater Ab­ro­ad (GTA) in a tran­satlan­tic con­text — she jo­ined the De­uts­che The­ater Ber­lin with Ul­rich Khu­on in 2009–10. The­re, as a mem­ber of the the­ater’s exe­cuti­ve bo­ard, she was res­ponsib­le for the Jun­ges DT and DT In­terna­ti­onal. This pe­ri­od saw the cre­ation of nu­mero­us in­no­vati­ve cul­tu­ral out­re­ach for­mats and mul­ti-award-win­ning pro­duc­ti­ons for and with young pe­op­le, which suc­cess­ful­ly ope­ned the the­ater to the ci­ty. Bir­git Len­gers has twi­ce be­en awar­ded the Ger­man The­ater Pri­ze “Der Fa­ust”: in 2022 for “Mi­roloi” (di­rec­ted by Li­es­beth Col­tof) and in 2024 for “So­lin­gen 1993” (di­rec­ted by Bas­sam Gha­zi). As a dra­maturg, she has al­so col­la­bora­ted with No­ra Schloc­ker, Ki­rill Se­reb­renni­kov, Thors­ten Len­sing, Ka­milė Gud­mo­na­itė, Dušan Da­vid Pařízek, Stas Zhyr­kov, Jo­an­na-Ma­ria Praml, Sa­lome Dast­mal­chi, Ger­not Grüne­wald, and Tur­bo Pas­cal, among ot­hers.

As a fes­ti­val cu­rator (“RA­DAR OST,” 2018–2023 at De­uts­ches The­ater Ber­lin, and “Fo­kus Uk­ra­ine – Euro­pe­an The­ater Fes­ti­val” at Düssel­dorfer Scha­us­pi­el­ha­us), Bir­git Len­gers has nu­mero­us in­terna­ti­onal con­tacts. Thanks to her ma­ny years of ser­vi­ce on the bo­ard of the Dra­matur­gisc­he Ge­sell­schaft and the De­uts­cher Bühnen­ve­re­in, she is al­so ve­ry well con­nected wit­hin the Ger­man-spe­aking the­ater sce­ne. In Feb­ru­ary 2025, Bir­git Len­gers was elec­ted to the Co­un­cil of the Arts and ser­ves as its spo­kes­person. Sin­ce 2025, she has al­so be­en a mem­ber of the Aca­demy of Per­forming Arts and the In­terna­ti­onal The­at­re Ins­ti­tute (ITI).