Hannah Schünemann is a dramaturge and literary and theatre scholar. From the 2025/26 season onwards, she took over as head of dramaturgy at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. She studied general and comparative literature, philosophy and theatre studies in Munich, Paris and Berlin. As a dramaturge she worked at the Volksbühne Berlin. She has also worked for the Berliner Festspiele, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Landestheater Niederösterreich and the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, among others. Most recently, she was a research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities’, where she completed her doctorate on radical languages of form 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. Her dissertation «Ultrawelten. Radikale Formsprachen in den Inszenierungen von Susanne Kennedy, Lucia Bihler und Florentina Holzinger» (Ultraworlds. Radical Languages of Form in the Productions of Susanne Kennedy, Lucia Bihler and Florentina Holzinger) was published in August 2025 by Theater der Zeit. Together with Pınar Karabulut, co-director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, she developed the stage adaption of IL GATTOPARDO by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2026 as one of the 10 most remarkable productions of the season.
