Hannah Schünemann is a dramaturge and literary and theatre scholar. From the 2025/26 season onwards, she will take over as chief dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. She studied general and comparative literature, philosophy and theatre studies in Munich, Paris and Berlin. She worked as a dramaturge at the Volksbühne Berlin. She has also worked for the Berliner Festspiele, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Landestheater Niederösterreich and the Performing Arts Festival, among others. Most recently, she was a research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities’, where she completed her doctorate under Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch on radical formal languages in contemporary theatre. In 2023, she was invited as a visiting scholar to the PhD Programme for Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Centre of City University New York. She taught at the Weißensee Academy of Art and mentored artistic projects at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and the Berlin University of the Arts. In August 2025, her dissertation Ultrawelten. Radikale Formsprachen in den Inszenierungen von Susanne Kennedy, Lucia Bihler und Florentina Holzinger (Ultra Worlds: Radical Formal Languages in the Productions of Susanne Kennedy, Lucia Bihler and Florentina Holzinger) will be published by Theater der Zeit.
