Herausgegeben von: Elisabeth Schweeger

Elisabeth Schweeger was born in Vienna in 1954. Now a cultural manager, she studied comparative literature in Innsbruck, Vienna and Paris. She was a curator for the documenta 87, the Ars Electronica 1988, the European Capital of Culture Berlin 1988 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1984-1992) and commissioner for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2001, among others. From 1993-2001 she was artistic director at the Marstall theatre and chief dramaturge at the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich, earning the City of Munich Theatre Award in 1999. She was director general at the Frankfurt Playhouse from 2001 to 2009 and at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover from 2010 to 2015, and director and managing director at the Academy of Performing Arts of Baden-Württemberg from 2014 to 2022. Since November 2021 Schweeger has been artistic managing director of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024. She lives in Germany and Austria.