studied opera singing with Julia Varady and Christine Schäfer at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. In her search for a cross-genre performance and theatrical language, she has since created a wide range of works spanning classical music theatre, performance and drama, which have taken her to venues including the Bavarian State Opera, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the National Theatre Weimar, the Wuppertal Opera, the Saarland State Theatre, the Hanover State Theatre, the Théâtre de l’Athénée Paris and the Bremen Theatre. Since 2015, she has been working closely with the Berlin music theatre collective ‘Hauen und Stechen’.
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studied political science, administrative science and history with a focus on cultural and theatre policy. For many years, she has been working as a freelance production manager for various theatre collectives, authors and directors (including Gruppe Laokoon, FUX, Nele Stuhler, Paula Thielecke, Kaufmann/Witt). She is a member of LAFT Berlin and KuPoGe.
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Jasmin (Xenia) Knitter was born in May 1999 and grew up in Berlin. Since childhood, fashion and storytelling have been among her greatest passions. Influenced by Berlin’s club culture and her night-time wanderings through the city, her sense of colour, authenticity and contrasts flows into her work.
After completing her training at the Modeschule Berlin (graduating in 2021), she worked as a costume assistant at various theatres in German-speaking countries. Since the 2024/25 season, she has been permanently engaged at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. She created her first costume designs in 2023 for short films at the Film University Babelsberg, independent music video productions, the Munich Biennale and the Roter Salon at the Volksbühne. ‘Die Kantine’ is her second collaboration with Nico Sauer.
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trained as a bespoke tailor and completed a degree in Fine Arts/Stage and Costume Design at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin. Her work as a costume and set designer has been seen at the FFT Düsseldorf, Schaubühne Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Münchner Volkstheater, Konzerttheater Bern, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Sophiensaele Berlin, the Ruhrtriennale, several times at the Radikal Jung Festival, Donaufestival Krems, Tanz im August Berlin, Athens Biennale 2018 and FIBA Buenos Aires 2021. She has worked with Noam Brusilovsky and Lotta Beckers as well as Heinrich Horwitz and Rosa Wernecke for many years. Maria Magdalena Emmerig is a co-founder of The Agency (2015-2022), whose performances have been shown internationally.
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is a Germanist, translator and editor. She is currently a research assistant at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. From 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with a research project on Max Bense’s cybernetic poetry. Her dissertation, Kathrin Röggla’s Szeno-Graphien der Gegenwart. Formen und Methoden einer performativen Prosa (1995–2016) (Kathrin Röggla’s Scenographies of the Present: Forms and Methods of Performative Prose (1995–2016)), was published by De Gruyter/Brill in 2024. Coppola’s research interests lie in the performativity of writing processes, both in prose and poetry, with a focus on the question of artificiality. In 2025, she published the first Italian translation of Hubert Fichte’s novel Forschungsbericht (1981) for IISF Press. Since 2017, she has curated radio and translation projects for the Goethe Institute in Naples and in 2020 won the ‘Kunst Radio-Radio Kunst’ competition organised by Radio Ö1 Vienna with an adaptation of Ernst Jandl’s ‘Aus der Fremde’ (1981).
Caroline Beach
Caroline is a Texas-born artist, choreographer, performer and occasional musician living in Germany, who could perhaps best be described as a cartoon artist in the ‘wrong’ media. She has created works for theatres, galleries, off-spaces, public places, the internet, a media storage room, a beach and a de-functionalised bench. Her work does not stand ‘at the intersection’ of anything, but rather explores the active creation of meaning in a precarious space between arbitrariness and profundity, between the living and the undead. She is interested in the history of technology as the history of humanity, in the politics of nonsense, in Internet horror micro-genres, in dance as dissociation as activation, and in sifting through flotsam. In recent years, she has been working primarily through Sailor, a human-algorithmic figure who navigates an infinite archive of shipwrecks created from information debris – and does not own a boat of her own. She currently plays in the bands Halloween Boyfriend and Cocktail Napkin.
She studies at the AdBK Nuremberg with Johannes Paul Raether and at the Palucca University of Dance with Katharina Christl.
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born in Munich, has lived in Berlin since 2014. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a composer, performer, theatre director, filmmaker, curator and programmer. His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music and at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. He completed his master’s degree with Manos Tsangaris at the Dresden University of Music. His early works include transmedia performances such as ‘NeueMusik24’, ‘Deutsch-Afrika’ (2014) for chamber orchestra with computerised voices and ‘Love Me’ (2016) for ensemble and 100 masks. His most recent works include the 360° audio mockumentary with visuals ‘Moonbreaker 2121’, which is part of the permanent programme of the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin; in 2023, his solo opera ‘Atlantide Acide’ premiered in Paris, in which the inside of the stomach is miked using a nasogastric probe. In 2024, his road traffic opera ‘RÜBER’ was performed with great success at the Munich Biennale for Music Theatre, in which 10 performers played for nine days, eight hours a day in the streets of Munich to an audience inside a moving limousine.
