Eva Bormann, born in Weimar in 1982, studied theatre, literature and sociology at the University of Leipzig. She has been working on readings of her own texts with various artists since 2005, including in Leipzig, Hamburg, Marburg and Heilbronn. Her first publication and an artist-in-residence at the “maumau art residency” in Istanbul took place in 2014. In 2015, she was a scholarship holder of the 19th literary class of the “Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur” in Klagenfurt. She worked as a dramaturge at the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg (2010-2015), the Hamburg Kaltstart Festival (2014), Theater Heilbronn (2015-2016) and Schauspielhaus Bochum (2016-2018). Her world premiere with Fanny Brunner at Werk X/Eldorado, “HI. ELLIOT RODGER HERE.” was honored by the Austrian Federal Chancellery/Section for Art and Culture in 2016. Since 2018, she has been employed as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar. She has taught at the Institute for German Literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Drama in Leipzig.
As an author, Eva Bormann takes part in the Drama Lab 2025.
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