APHASIA STUDIES, a new project by Katharina Schmitt and composer Michal Rataj, is going to premiere in Spring 2020 as a radio play at ČRo Vltava and as a piece of music theatre at festival NODO in August 2020
The binaural radio play THE ADELAIDE CARPENTER MEMORY WING - written and directed by Katharina Schmitt with music by Michal Rataj - will be presented in the framework of the Prague Festival of German Theatre in December 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art DOX in Prague
After a succesful premiere at the Munich Biennale in June 2018 EVERYTHING GOES TO PLAN, composed by Ondřej Adámek, libretto written/ directed by Katharina Schmitt, will be opening season 2019/20 at Gare du Nord, Basel and touring to Festival Musica, Strasbourg in October 2019
The Czech version of the radio play MOLYNEUX's PROBLEM, written and directed by Katharina Schmitt, is nominated for Grand Prix Nova 2019/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 about MOLYNEUX's PROBLEM on ČrO Vltava
The Prague National Theatre just announced more dates for NO MAN, composed by Jiří Kadeřábek, libretto written/ directed by Katharina Schmitt, for season 2018/19: January 6th& 7th and March 18& 19 2019
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
The Studio Hrdinů production of Katharina's staging of Franz Kafka's A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY will premiere in February 2018 in Prague. A TV feature by ČT 24 can be found here
NO MAN, composed by Jiří Kadeřábek, libretto written/ directed by Katharina Schmitt, will premiere at the Opera of the Prague National Theatre in March 2017 with shows planned throughout season 2017/18 and a tour to Theater Bremen in Autumn 2017
Katharina's staging of György Ligeti's operas AVENTURES & NOUVELLES AVENTURES, conducted by Petr Kotík, premieres in June 2016 at NODO Festival
During a month-long residency at the Museumsquartier/Q21 in Vienna, Katharina is going to work on a series of interviews about blindness for her piece MOLYNEUX's PROBLEM
Katharina's adaptation of Jan Něměc's and Ester Krumbachová's film THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS premieres in May 2015 at the Studio Hrdinů in Prague with shows planned throughout season 2015/16 and shows at Schwankhalle Bremen in Autumn 2016
Katharina's staging of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT premieres in February 2015 at the Šalda Theatre
Katharina has been awarded a three-month residency at the Villa Decius in Krakow, where she is going to work on an adaptation of Jan Něměc's and Ester Krumbachová's film THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS for the stage
Katharina's staging of NOT I by Samuel Beckett premieres in March 2014 at the Fairtrade Palace in Prague in coproduction with the Studio Hrdinů Theatre