Dirk Wauschkuhn, born in Düsseldorf in 1964, graduated in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and the University of Hamburg in 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as a design engineer at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and from 1996 to 2001 as production and workshop manager at the Theater Basel. He has been at the Schauspielhaus Zürich since 2001, serving as workshop manager and deputy technical director until 2005. During this time, he passed his stage manager and lighting manager exams.
Dirk Wauschkuhn has been technical director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich since September 2005.
