Daniela Löffner
director
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Daniela Löffner has been working as House Director of the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden since 2017 and is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, directing her first opera: Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible. Born in Freiburg she started working as a director’s assistant at the Stadtstheater there before moving to the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf in 2006, assisting people including Jürgen Gosch and directing her own productions, including Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and Hermann Hesse’s Demian (nominated for a 2011 DER FAUST theatre prize). She has staged works for theatres including the Residenztheater in Munich, the Schauspiel in Bochum, Staatstheater in Stuttgart and Schauspielhaus in Zürich. She was voted best up and coming artist in Theater heute magazine’s annual critics’ survey. Her productions are often invited to leading festivals, her Schauspielhaus Zurich’s production of Maxim Gorki’s Children of the Sun went to the 2014 Festival Radikal jung in Munich. She was House Director at the Staatstheater in Braunschweig from 2010 - 2014, were productions included Franz Molnár’s Liliom, Schiller’s Intrigues and Love and Shakespeare’s Tempest. She was awarded the Academy of the Performing Arts’ 2014 Kurt Hübner Direction Prize for Children of the Sun and The Tempest. Productions at the Deutsche Theater Berlin have included Gorki’s Summer Visitors, Gerhart Hauptmann’s Lonely People and Fathers and Sons, based on a novel by Ivan Turgenjev, which was invited to the 2016 Theatertreffen in Berlin, a great honour. Her most recent productions in Dresden included Christa Winsloe’s adaptation of Sylvia and Sybille, The Hunt, based on a film by Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Rats and a highly praised reading of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu.