Franziska Trinkaus, born in Kaiserslautern, studied theatre studies and general and comparative literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2014 to 2016, she worked on the international research project ‘Theatre in the New Europe’, a collaboration between the Mimecentrum Berlin / ITI Germany, JAMU Brno and the DIVADLO festival in Pilsen. During her studies, she worked as an assistant director and dramaturge in Berlin, Potsdam and Hamburg. She has been part of the Autor:innentheatertage team since 2017. From 2018, she was initially an assistant dramaturge, then dramaturge at Deutsches Theater Berlin, where she worked with Charlotte Sprenger, Jürgen Kruse, Andreas Kriegenburg, Daniela Löffner, Anna Bergmann and Bastian Kraft, among others.