
Cathrin Rose (she/her) began her theatre work as a dramaturge in 1995 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under the directorship of Leander Haußmann. From 2002 to 2017, she was dramaturge at the Ruhrtriennale, the international festival of the arts, where she built up the education department. During this time, she forged close artistic ties with Sue Buckmaster and her award-winning London-based children's and youth theatre company Theatre-Rites, the Belgian theatre collective Studio ORKA and Darren O'Donnell and his Canadian performance group Mammalian Diving Reflex. Together with the latter, Rose developed programme series such as No Education and Teentalitarianism, which have turned the (power) relations between children and adults upside down in both an artistic and social sense. From 2018 to 2025, Cathrin Rose was the artistic director of Junges Schauspiel Bochum. Under her direction, a separate venue for children's and youth theatre – the Theaterrevier –was founded, which she managed together with Drama Control, a 15-member children's and youth supervisory board. This form of radical participation was one of the first of its kind in the German-speaking theatre landscape, award-winning and widely copied. From the 2025/26 season she is the artistic director of Junges Schauspiel Hannover and deputy artistic director of Schauspiel Hannover.
Current roles:
- Dramaturgy in Das NEINhorn
- Dramaturgy in Der Struwwelpeter
Past roles:
- Dramaturgy in Nils Holgersson
- Dramaturgy in Der kleine Prinz
- Outside Eye in SPLASH – un/coming of age
- Dramaturgy in Die wundersame Reise von Edward Tulane
- Dramaturgy in TON
- Dramaturgy in Wie Rosie den Käsekopter erfand
- Dramaturgy in Die Schöne und das Biest
- Dramaturgy in Der unsichtbare Mann
- Dramaturgy in Weg vom Fenster
- Dramaturgy in Die unendliche Geschichte
- Dramaturgy in Verbundensein
- Dramaturgy in The last Minutes before Mars
- dramaturgy in Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen
- Dramaturgy in Plattform / Unterwerfung
- Dramaturgy in 2069 – Das Ende der Anderen
- Dramaturgy in Der Hamiltonkomplex
- Dramaturgy in Alle Jahre wieder
- Dramaturgy in Plattform