Advance ticket sales for ARCHE/Where is the Mind? developed by composer Eugene Birman and Katharina Schmitt between Hong Kong and Berlin have begun. The installation explores the body as a living archive, focusing on presence and movement, and will be presented as part of the Münchener Biennale at the Muffatwerk in Munich in early May, featuring soprano Olga Siemienczuk
Elfriede Jelinek's play Ashes will have its Czech premiere in October 2026 at Prague's Meetfactory directed by Katharina Schmitt. This episode of the podcast Tovární hlášení introduces Meetfactory's dramaturgy and its plans for 2026
Apparatus based Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony, adapted and directed by Katharina Schmitt and with a composition by Christoph Wirth will have its German premiere at JOiN/Staatsoper Stuttgart in October. Tickets are availabe at https://www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/
ARCHE, an intermedia opera project in development by composer Eugene Birman and Katharina Schmitt, explores the body as a living archive and will premiere its first installative module, Where is the Mind?, at the Münchener Biennale in May 2026
Apparatus, a new show by Katharina Schmitt, based on Franz Kafka's story In the Penal Colony, will have its Czech premiere on March 15th, 2025 at Studio Hrdinů in Prague, where it will become part of the repertoire. A German premiere is planned for Autumn 2025 at JOiN/Staatsoper Stuttgart
A film shoot with kungfu practitioners for a first installment of ARCHE, a new opera project in development by Eugene Birman and Katharina Schmitt, with media dramaturgy by Oblique Sensations and comissioned as part of a research project by Jeffrey Shaw at the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, concluded after three weeks on location and in a Hong Kong green screen studio in late 2023. ARCHE explores the body as a living archive, focusing on presence and movement and will finalise its first, interactive, module at HKBU in early 2025
INES, a new opera by composer Ondřej Adámek, with a libretto written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, will premiere at Oper Köln in June 2024. An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set after a nucelar catastrophe, INES explores relationships between voice and trauma in a composition for solo voices, choir and orchestra
HAUCH, a sonic horror show created by composer Juliana Hodkinson, set designer and visual artist Marsha Ginsberg, and writer and director Katharina Schmitt will be shown as a video installation at the Los Angeles USC Fisher Museum of Art in the framework of Scene Shift, an exhibition on contemporary scenic design opening February 2, 2024
Oblique Sensations are showing their VR-version of Katharina Schmitt's play The One-leggged Runner titled AUTO_NOMOS: Der einbeinige Läufer as part of RAUSCH 3 at Theater an der Ruhr Mülheim, starting MAR 3rd, 2024
The Last Chapter of the History of the World will have its German premiere in November 2023 at Theater Bremen as part of Festival Globale
The Last Chapter of the History of the World, a new show by Katharina Schmitt based on Heinrich von Kleist's essay On the Marionette Theatre, is scheduled to premiere in November 2022 at Studio Hrdinů in Prague
The radio version of Katharina Schmitt's and Michal Rataj's A Study of Aphasia was nominated for the 9th edition of the International Radio Drama Competition Grand Prix Nova, as well as for PRIX EUROPA 2021, and the UK International Audio Drama Competiton. The piece won 2nd prize at Prix Bohemia. A Study of Aphasia is a binaural radio play about a singer who loses her voice, inspired by a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film Persona, the opera Elektra by Richard Strauss, and the work of voice therapy specialist Emil Fröschels
HAUCH. Skin without body. Body without voice. Voice without breath. Breath without skin. HAUCH is a walk with clowns who appear as projection surfaces for social anxiety and fear. Composer Juliana Hodkinson, artist Marsha Ginsberg and director Katharina Schmitt trace the clown archetype from the amusing to the frightening through an exploration of contemporary post-dystopian and imaginary spaces. Questioning the voice as a fleeing anchor of identity, HAUCH engages with contemporary social phobias, deserted urban environments, and masked identities, juxtaposing the voices of Neue Vocalsolisten with the bodies of dynamic performers - remotely from the Hudson River Valley and live in the urban forest of the Tiergarten and rooftop terrace of HKW/Haus der Kulturen der Welt. HAUCH premieres in the framework of the festival The Disappearance of Music. The on-site event was cancelled due to COVID-19, and a film version of HAUCH launched on DEC 7th, 2020 on the website of Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The binaural radio play The Adelaide Carpenter Memory Wing, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt with music by Michal Rataj, was presented in the framework of the Prague Festival of German Theatre in December 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art DOX in Prague
Everything Goes to Plan, composed by Ondřej Adámek, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, is now available online as a radio broadcast by France Musique, which recorded the Strasbourg premiere of the piece
After a succesful premiere at the Munich Biennale in June 2018, Everything Goes to Plan, composed by Ondřej Adámek, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, opened season 2019/20 at Gare du Nord in Basel and toured to Festival Musica, Strasbourg in October 2019
The Czech version of the radio play Molyneux's Problem, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, has been nominated for the Radio Drama Award at Grand Prix Nova 2019 in Bucharest
Molyneux's Problem, trailer from Katharina Schmitt on Vimeo
Von der Idee zum Stück. Neue Formen der Musiktheaterproduktion. SRF Feauture on the Munich Biennale and the work on Everything Goes to Plan by Ondřej Adámek and Katharina Schmitt
Molyneux's Problem, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt
Performative installation for EIGEN+ART Lab with Jaschka Lämmert & Volker König and music by Michal Rataj. November 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2018 at EIGEN+ART Lab
Staging with Pavlina Štorková & Jakub Gottwald at Studio Hrdinů, premiere on December 11th 2018, further shows throughout season 2018/19 at Studio Hrdinů
Radio play on December 11th, 2018 on ČRo Vltava and on January 11th, 2019 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Interview with Katharina Schmitt about Molyneux's Problem on ČRo Vltava
Everything Goes to Plan, composed by Ondřej Adámek, libretto written/ directed by Katharina Schmitt, will premiere in June 2018 at the Marstall of the Residenztheater in Munich in the framework of the Munich Biennale
A ČT 24 TV feature about the staging of Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy at Studio Hrdinů, adapted and directed by Katharina Schmitt and scheduled to premiere in February 2018 in Prague
No Man, composed by Jiří Kadeřábek, libretto written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, premiered at the Opera of the Prague National Theatre in March 2017 with performances planned throughout the 2017/18 season and a tour to Theater Bremen in Autumn 2017
György Ligeti's operas Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures, conducted by Petr Kotík and directed by Katharina Schmitt, premiered in June 2016 at NODO Festival
Katharina Schmitt's staging of Not I by Samuel Beckett premiered in March 2014 at the Fairtrade Palace in Prague in coproduction with Studio Hrdinů
Together with set designer Marsha Ginsberg, Katharina Schmitt was awarded a residency at the Watermill Center in autumn 2012 to work on a performance of her play SAM, which was inspired by Tehching Hsieh's Cage Piece