Claudia Bauer
Born in Landshut in Lower Bavaria, she studied acting and directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin.
From 1999 to 2004 she was artistic director of the Theaterhaus Jena, and from 2005 to 2007 resident director at the Neues Theater Halle. She held a guest professorship in acting and directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. From 2015 to 2023 she was resident director at Schauspiel Leipzig. Claudia Bauer has also directed at the Schauspielhaus Graz, Theater Basel, Schauspiel Hannover, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Volksbühne Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Deutsches Theater Berlin, and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, among others.
At the Staatstheater Kassel she made her opera debut in 2022 with her production of Jacques Offenbach's »Les contes d'Hoffmann«. Most recently she directed »Publikumsbeschimpfung« by Peter Handke at Schauspiel Frankfurt and »Hundeherz« by Mikhail Bulgakov at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Claudia Bauer's productions have received numerous awards and have been featured repeatedly at major theatre festivals.
She has been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen with four productions: »89/90«, based on the novel by Peter Richter, at Schauspiel Leipzig (2017); »Tartuffe oder Das Schwein der Weisen« by PeterLicht after Molière at Theater Basel (2019); »Süßer Vogel Jugend« by Tennessee Williams at Schauspiel Leipzig (2020); and most recently »humanistää!« after Ernst Jandl at Volkstheater Wien (2022).
Following »Tartuffe oder das Schwein der Weisen« (world premiere 2018), »Der eingebildete Kranke oder das Klistier der reinen Vernunft« (world premiere 2019), »Valentiniade. Sportliches Singspiel mit allen Mitteln« (world premiere 2022), and »Warten auf Godot« (2025), »Die Präsidentinnen« is now Claudia Bauer's fifth directorial work at the Residenztheater. Since the 2024/2025 season she has also been resident director there.
Performing in
The Austrian playwright Werner Schwab is regarded as a radical reviver of the folk play and a linguistic virtuoso. For his comedy «Die Präsidentinnen», he created three incomparable female characters in Erna, Grete and Mariedl who try to defend their modest place in life with peasant cunning and a will to survive only to be tripped up by their own vainglorious delusions.
Die Präsidentinnen
Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot, who they neither know who he is nor what they actually want from him. With his ambiguous work about waiting and the passing of time, which has been interpreted in all directions, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett created one of the classics of modernism, which in-house director Claudia Bauer reinterprets.
Warten auf Godot (Waiting for Godot)