Joanna Lewicka: New acting director at the Staatstheater Schwerin!

Joanna Lewicka: New acting director at the Staatstheater Schwerin!

Schwerin, Deutschland - A fresh wind blows into the Schwerin theater landscape: Joanna Lewicka was appointed the new acting director at the Mecklenburg State Theater. Born in 1980 in Silesia and grew up in Baden-Württemberg, she brings a variety of experiences and creative projects. Your official start of office will be at the beginning of the 2026/27 season. Until then, Nina Steinhilber continues to have the reins of the drama division in his hand.

The new job of Lewicka comes at the right time because the State Theater in Schwerin wants to take new creative ways with fresh vigor. General director Hans-Georg Wegner describes Lewicka as an “exceptionally exciting artist personality”, which will bring fresh swing to theater with her vision and the ability to express emotions through language, movement and pictures.

insight into Lewickas impressive career

Joanna Lewicka is known for her extraordinary theater projects. It is particularly noteworthy to be staged by Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream” with prison inmates in Lublin, which was awarded the “Gazeta Wyborcza” as a cultural event of the year in 2012. Leawicka's work already led them through numerous countries, including Cambodia, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Belarus and Ukraine.

Your outstanding staging of "Antigone" at the Plauen-Zwickau Theater was awarded the German Theater Prize of the Faust in 2024, whereby her creative handwriting in the German theater landscape is increasingly recognized. She also won the Stanislaw Hebanowski Theater Prize in 2019. In recent years she has also been a teacher at the State University of Music and Performing Art in Stuttgart and has the goal of passing on her passion for the theater to the next generation.

variety in the theater

Lewicka knows how to set impulses with their productions and to enliven various genres. In addition, your dance production, which is on T.S. Eliot's work was found in the years 2022 and 2024. Another proof of their work: their theater work was broadcast for both public television and radio.

Your commitment in cultural disputes and theater projects, especially in Cambodia since 2016, underlines your social approach and innovative strength. The Meklenburg State Theater can look forward to an exciting future, which will be shaped by Lewicka's courage to creativity and its unshakable conviction in the power of the theater.

Despite a clear focus on the theater, the Neuenberger initiative for exchange with other art forms is not ignored. Festivals such as the theater in the world, founded in Cologne in 1981, which is devoted to visibility aesthetic developments in theater work, are also a stage for versatile and innovative projects. Such festivals not only promote international exchange, but also local theater, which is important for the entire cultural scene and expands the network.

With Joanna Lewicka at the wheel, the Mecklenburg State Theater expects exciting and innovative times - a good knack for art!

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