Current Guest Professors/Substitute Professors

Claudia Bosse

Claudia Bosse was born in Salzgitter-Bad in 1969 and studied directing at the "Ernst Busch" School of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. In 1996, she joined forces with Dominik Duchnik, Heike Müller and Silke Rosenthal in Berlin and founded the "theatercombinat" performance collective, which ever since has been creating experimental productions that combine installation, performance, choreography and theoretical discourse. Claudia Bosse has meanwhile established herself as the artistic director of the "theatercombinat", which has been based in Vienna since 1999 and works with alternating constellations of people, including Josef Szeiler, Christine Standfest, Doris Uhlich and Gerald Singer.

Claudia Bosse’s works, which are often staged in unusual venues, have been coproduced by theatres such as Kampnagel Hamburg, FFT Düsseldorf and the Théâtre du Grütli Geneva, by festivals like Theater der Welt and Theaterformen Braunschweig, and by museums like the Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) in Vienna. Claudia Bosse has brought out detailed publications to accompany many of her productions. Her production of Elfriede Jelinek’s "bambiland", the last in a four-part series entitled "tragödienproduzenten" (i.e. producers of tragedy), won the Nestroy Award of the City of Vienna in 2009 for best off-production.