Johanna Stenzel
Johanna Stenzel wurde 1989 in Dresden geboren. 2012 bis 2019 studierte sie Bühnen- und Kostümbild an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Seitdem arbeitet sie als selbstständige Bühnen- und Kostümbildnerin. Ihre Arbeiten waren u.a. am Residenztheater München, am Schauspiel Leipzig, an der Volksbühne Berlin und an der Oper Rom zu sehen. Es verbindet sie eine regelmäßige Zusammenarbeit mit den Regisseur*innen Wilke Weermann, Elsa-Sophie Jach, Pınar Karabulut und Nuran David Calis.
Foto: Jens Lamprecht
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.
LapidariumNo other play by Heinrich von Kleist inspires quite so many superlatives as «Käthchen of Heilbronn». It is not only the most successful, but also the most romantic, the most fairy tale-like and at the same time the most mysterious play that he wrote.
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Käthchen of Heilbronn)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)Romeo and Juliet set the language of love against the war of their relatives, the language of the dagger. Will they manage to set an example against the irreconcilable enmity that prevails in Verona? In-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach re-stages the world's most famous love story and the dance on the volcano that sweeps its main characters away, with lots of music and hot hearts.
Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet)