Juliane Kann was born in 1982 in Mecklenburg and studied writing for the stage at Berlin University of the Arts. In 2005, she was invited to the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen and the third Münchner Kammerspiele Dramatists' Weekend with her play
Bloody Homeland, which was premiered that same year at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. During the 2006/2007 season, she attended the Authors' Laboratory led by Thomas Jonigk at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. It was there that Kann wrote her trilogy about youth issues, the plays
Seventeen, the kids are alright, and
Birds. They have been followed by works premiered at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Theater Osnabrück, the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. In 2009, Kann was awarded the Dramatists' Prize of the Cultural Committee of German Business within the Federation of German Industries. Juliane Kann lives in Berlin.
Prizes and awards
- 2004: Audience Prize of the Hans-Otto Theater Potsdam for the monologue Zwiegespräch (Dialogue)
- 2005: Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt with Bloody Homeland
- 2008: Took part in the Radically Young festival at the Volkstheater München with the kids are alright
- 2008: Took part in the Hamburg Autorentheatertage with Birds
- 2009: Dramatists' Prize of the Cultural Committee of German Business within the Federation of German Industries
