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Monday 11 May 2026
Lisa Wentz is an award-winning Austrian playwright.
Wentz, born in Tyrol in 1995, completed her acting training in Vienna in 2017. In 2018 she moved to Berlin to study scenic writing at the Universität der Künste (UdK). This was followed by, among other things, a first workshop performance at BAT Berlin, as well as a premiere in March 2020 (in front of a reduced audience) at the Red Salon of the Volksbuehne as part of the ultra Festival.
Her play Aschewolken was awarded a special prize in the young talent competition for the German Children’s and Young People’s Theatre Prize 2020 and premiered at Theater Strahl in Berlin in 2021. In 2021, her play Adern was awarded the Retzhofer Dramapreis, and premiered in March 2022 as a Burgtheater production in the Akademietheater venue, directed by David Busch.
Lisa Wentz took part in “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe“. She wrote Heimat bist du oder Ophelia muss sterben (Homeland, you are—or Ophelia you must die) for the Austria feature at the Leipzig Book Fair Weltsprache Provinz—about life and death in a failed Central European state.
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Monday 11 May 2026
Lisa Wentz is an award-winning Austrian playwright.
Wentz, born in Tyrol in 1995, completed her acting training in Vienna in 2017. In 2018 she moved to Berlin to study scenic writing at the Universität der Künste (UdK). This was followed by, among other things, a first workshop performance at BAT Berlin, as well as a premiere in March 2020 (in front of a reduced audience) at the Red Salon of the Volksbuehne as part of the ultra Festival.
Her play Aschewolken was awarded a special prize in the young talent competition for the German Children’s and Young People’s Theatre Prize 2020 and premiered at Theater Strahl in Berlin in 2021. In 2021, her play Adern was awarded the Retzhofer Dramapreis, and premiered in March 2022 as a Burgtheater production in the Akademietheater venue, directed by David Busch.
Lisa Wentz took part in “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe“. She wrote Heimat bist du oder Ophelia muss sterben (Homeland, you are—or Ophelia you must die) for the Austria feature at the Leipzig Book Fair Weltsprache Provinz—about life and death in a failed Central European state.
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in this community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our contribute content page.
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