About
Jana Beckmann was born in Bremen, studied dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, applied theatre studies / choreography in Buenos Aires as well as music and philosophy in Oldenburg. As a dramaturge, she worked at the Goethe Institute Buenos Aires (2009 to 2011), the tanzhaus Zürich, Kampnagel, the Hamburg state Opera as well as Director of the music theatre "Eunus" in the resonance region of Hamburg and for the documentary music theatre project, "Las Calles del Guasmo" in Ecuador. At the International theatre festival for New drama "Dramaturgias Cruzadas" in Buenos Aires, she worked for the Goethe Institute as a Translator. From 2013 to 2016 she took over the dramaturgical work of the productions Benedict von Peter, including" das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern "by Helmut Lachenmann at the Frankfurt Opera and" Prometheus " by Luigi Nono at the theater Luzern. From 2016 to 2018, a commitment was followed as the leading dramaturge of the Opera Wuppertal. Since the season 2018/19 Jana Beckmann dramaturge at the Staatsoper unter den Linden. Cooperation u. a. with Dimitri Cherniakov.