Gerhild Steinbuch / Julie Pfleiderer (A, D)

Gerhild Steinbuch, born in Mödling in 1983, studied stage-writing in Graz. She received the Retzhofer literature prize in 2003 and won the plays competition of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, with “kopftot”. Took part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Summer School, London, Vienna Burgtheater’s Werkstatttage, and the Bachmann Prize. Among others, Reinhard-Priessnitz Prize of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, literature scholarship prize of the manuskripte magazine, scholarship holder of Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and Prose Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin. In 2008/2009, Gerhild Steinbuch was resident author at Vienna’s Schauspielhaus. Co-operations with Julie Pfleiderer: “kopftot” (prem. 2006), “Menschen in Kindergrößen” (prem. 2008), “R. Destillat” after the film Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers (co-director Philipp Becker, prem. 2008). For steirischer herbst 2010 she wrote a text for Mariano Pensotti’s “Encyclopaedia of unlived life”.

Julie Pfleiderer, born in Düsseldorf in 1979, is a German theatre director. After working as director’s assistant at Cologne’s Schauspielhaus in 2000–2002, assistant to Matthias Lilienthal at Theater der Welt in 2002, she studied directing at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin from 2002 to 2006, taking part in the master class A.PT - Advanced Performance Training in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2009. Julie Pfleiderer has staged productions at HAU Berlin, Freischwimmer Festival Sophiensaele Berlin, Vienna’s Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Mainz, Schauspielhaus Wuppertal, Troubleyn//Jan Fabre, Antwerp, and Kaaitheater Brussels. Theater Heute magazine nominated her most talented young director in 2007 and 2008 for her productions of “kopftot” and “R. Destillat”. Pfleiderer lives and works in Berlin and Brussels.