Constanze Fröhlich

Constanze Fröhlich studied Romance languages and literature and political science in Berlin and Lyon. From 2004 to 2012, she was a research assistant for French philology at the Free University of Berlin, where she completed her doctorate in 2012 with a thesis on the contemporary French playwright Valère Novarina ("Poetik der Fülle. Sprechen und Erinnern im Werk Valère Novarinas", Winter-Verlag 2014). She subsequently worked as a lecturer at the University of Brasília, as a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin, as scientific coordinator of the annual theme ‘Language’ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and as press officer at the head office of the Helmholtz Association in Berlin. She has worked as a freelance dramaturge with director Philipp Preuss on productions including ‘Siegfried’ (text: Feridun Zaimoglu and Günther Senkel) for the Bayreuth Festival and ‘Unterwerfung / Gegen den Strich’ (text: Michel Houellebecq and Joris Karl Huysmans) for the Theater an der Ruhr. Since October 2022, she has been working at the house as a production dramaturge and, as part of the artistic programme team, is also involved in the new programme concept of the house and the creation and moderation of the festival programmes.