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Anja Hilling

Anja Hilling
Anja Hilling
Anja Hilling, born 1975, is a graduate of the course in creative writing for the stage at the University of the Arts, Berlin, where she studied from 2002 to 2006 after doing a degree in theatre studies and German literature at Munich and Berlin. It was while she was at the University of the Arts that she wrote her first play. This earned her an invitation to the Stückemarkt at the 2003 Berlin Theatertreffen, where she was awarded the Dresdner Bank Young Dramatists’ Prize.
In September 2007, Anja Hilling’s play Sinn, which she has written for a coproduction between the Comédie de St. Etienne and the Thalia Theater Hamburg, will be staged in French and German. In October 2007, Schwarzes Tier Traurigkeit, a work commissioned by the Schauspiel Hanover, will be premiered there in a production directed by Ingo Berk.
At present, Anja Hilling is working on a new play for the Thalia Theater Hamburg, which will have its premiere there during the 2007/08 season. Anja Hilling lives in Berlin.

Prizes and Awards:

  • 2003: invitation to the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen and presentation with the Dresdner Bank Young Dramatists’ Prize
  • International Residency at the Royal Court Theatre, London
  • 2005: voted Young Author of the Season (in a survey of critics conducted by "Theater Heute")
  • Invitation to the Werkstatttage at the Burgtheater, Vienna
  • Invitation to the Autorentheatertage, Thalia Theater, Hamburg
  • Invitation to take “Mein junges idiotisches Herz” (i.e.,“My Young and Foolish Heart”) to the Mülheim Theatertage (workshop production by Munich Kammerspiele)