Aleksandra Pavlović
In Belgrad geboren und aufgewachsen, sie studierte Bühnen- und Filmgestaltung an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Belgrad und Wien. Seit 2009 lebt sie in Deutschland, wo sie an der Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee ihr Diplom in Bühnen- und Kostümbild absolvierte. Seit 2017 verbindet sie als freie Bühnen- und Kostümbildnerin eine kontinuierliche Zusammenarbeit mit den Regisseur*innen Elsa-Sophie Jach, Charlotte Sprenger, Pınar Karabulut, Jessica Glause und dem FUX Kollektiv an Häusern wie u.a. Thalia Theater, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Wien, Volkstheater Wien und Schauspiel Köln.
Sie erhielt den Eva-Bonacker Nachwuchs Preis 2021 am Thalia Theater Hamburg für besondere Leistungen in bühnenkünstlerischer Gestaltung .
Foto: Julia Sang Nguyen
Productions
Rainald Goetz, the remarkable multi award-winning author, has entrusted resident director Elsa-Sophie Jach with the world premiere of his latest theatre text. The text is a bold mix of genres: a diary and requiem interwoven with scenes from a crazy screenplay project with Helmut Dietl and Franz Xaver Kroetz, to whom Goetz has dedicated the play. And in it he also pays his respects to his native Bavaria, both to the city of Munich and the foothills of the Alps. Playful, poetic, profound, absolutely undramatic – and, of course, a work of genius.
Lapidarium
During the global economic crisis of the 1920s, a young woman tries out self-realization and yet ends up in a restrictive marriage, confronted with misogyny and male bonding as well as the rise of National Socialism. Elsa-Sophie Jach adapts Marieluise Fleisser's only novel for the stage.
Eine Zierde für den Verein (A credit to the club)
The «freedom to act» forms the core of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical thinking. What this freedom means for the individual is exemplified in «The Flies» - Sartre's rewriting of Aeschylus' second part of the «Oresteia». Should Orest, who has returned home from exile, take revenge for the murder of his father Agamemnon? And if so, what price is he prepared to pay?
Die Fliegen (The Flies)
The director Elsa-Sophie Jach, who recently made her debut at the Residenztheater with her production of Herbert Achternbusch’s «Heart of Glass», brings the outrageous love poetry of «Europe’s first poet» to new life. Known for a directing style characterised by precise language and strong visuals, she hunts down the forgotten remains of Sappho’s poems, condenses them into a chorus and, on a tour through the literary canon together with the Munich techno live band SLATEC, she exposes the systematic erasure of the female voice, its silencing and the need for it to empower itself.
Die Unerhörten (The outrageous ones)
In her adaptation, the director Elsa-Sophie Jach has seized on the idea Goethe abandoned and transfers Goethe’s love-sick alter ego to the stage. «WERTHER. A Theatrical Folly» supplements Goethe’s shimmering, astonishingly modern rush of emotion with texts by one of his contemporaries: Karoline von Günderrode.
Werther