Karin Neuhäuser

Karin Neuhäuser, born in Leonberg in 1955, attended drama school in Bochum. In 1988 she went to Wuppertal with Holk Freytag and in 1992 (until 1999) moved to the Theater an der Ruhr to work with Roberto Ciulli. There she played, among others, the landowner Ranevskaya in Chekhov's Cherry Orchard and gave guest performances in Belgrade, Bogotá, Sarajevo and Tehran. She worked with Johann Kresnik (Richard III) at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin and made guest appearances at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin in productions by Falk Richter and Luk Perceval. With Luk Perceval she played the role of Anna Petrovna in Chekhov's Platonov and participated in his Molière project. From 2002 to 2005 she was in the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus Zurich, where she worked with Christoph Marthaler, Stefan Pucher, Jan Bosse and Falk Richter, among others. She also performed there in Jan Bosse's Präsidentinnen, in Falk Richter's Die Möwe and in Stefan Pucher's production of Orestie.

Karin Neuhäuser has appeared in various film and television productions and has received several awards, including the Theater Prize of the Association of German Critics. Since 2000, Karin Neuhäuser has also regularly directed her own productions in Münster, at the Staatstheater Kassel, Frankfurt am Main and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. In the 12/13 season, she staged (in cooperation with the Theaterakademie) with acting students their final project Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening) by Frank Wedekind at the Thalia Gaußstraße. For her role in Stefan Pucher's project Andersen. Trip zwischen Welten at the Thalia Theater, Karin Neuhäuser received the Rolf Mares Award in the category "Exceptional Performance Actresses" in 2010. In 2017, she was awarded the DER FAUST theater prize for her performance in Wut/Rage (directed by Sebastian Nübling). At the Deutsches Theater Berlin, she can be seen in Lucy Kirkwood's The Welkin (Das Himmelszelt), directed by Jette Steckel.