Christiane Pohle

© Andreas Pohlmann

Born in Berlin on 25 July 1968. After her university entrance examination she trained as an actress in Hamburg from 1988 to 1992. From 1992 to 1999 she worked as an actress, including at Schwerin Theatre, the Schlosstheater in Celle and at Kampnagel in Hamburg.

In 1999 she produced “sitting in Hamburg” after Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. For this production she was awarded the “Impulse” Prize 2000 for the 3sat television recording and the Gertrud Eysoldt Prize for young directors in 2001. The independent theatre group LABORLAVACHE resulted from the production.

Since 2000 she has produced continuously at Zurich’s Schauspielhaus and Dresden’s Theater in der Fabrik (TIF). Since 2002 productions at Freiburg Theatre, the Munich Kammerspiele, the Salzburg Festival, the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.