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Angela Obst studied general and comparative literature, political science and history in Berlin, during which time she worked for the theater publisher henschel SCHAUSPIEL. From 2009 to 2019, Angela Obst worked as a dramaturge at the Residenztheater in Munich. There she worked regularly with Frank Castorf, for example in Reise ans Ende der Nacht after Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2013, Theatertreffen 2014) and Brecht's Baal (Theatertreffen 2015), with Martin Kušej, e.g. in Goethe's Faust (NESTROY Prize 2014), with Anne Lenk, Timofej Kuljabin, Andreas Kriegenburg, Robert Gerloff and others, and realized several political discussion series in cooperation with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2017, she worked with Bibiana Beglau on Allen Ginsberg's Howl for the stage. In 2018, Angela Obst was a member of the jury for the Mülheimer Theatertage NRW. From 2015 to 2019, she was a lecturer in the directing course (director: Prof. Sebastian Baumgarten) at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding. Since 2019 she has been teaching the directing course at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Director: Prof. Lisa Nielebock). Since 2019, she has been a dramaturge at Schauspielhaus Bochum under the directorship of Johan Simons, with whom she worked on Anton Chekhov's Ivanov and Shakespeare's King Lear, among others. She regularly adapts major plays for the stage, most recently Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (Thalia Theater Hamburg) and The Brothers Karamazov (Schauspielhaus Bochum). Further collaborations with Mateja Koležnik (Children of the Sun, Theatertreffen 2023), Christopher Rüping and Robert Borgmann, among others. From 2018 to 2022, Angela Obst also dramaturgically supervised the productions of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. Since the 2023/24 season, Angela Obst has been head dramaturge at Schauspielhaus Bochum.
Current roles:
- Version in Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht
- Dramaturgy in Frankenstein
- Dramaturgy in Iwanow
- Dramaturgy in Trauer ist das Ding mit Federn
- Dramaturgy in Die Schutzbefohlenen – Was danach geschah (2024)
- Dramaturgy in Eschenliebe
Past roles:
- Theatre version , Dramaturgy in Die Brüder Karamasow
- Dramaturgy in Der Würgeengel
- Dramaturgy in Kinder der Sonne
- Text , Dramaturgy in Sherlock Holmes jagt Dr. Watson
- Dramaturgy in Der große Gatsby
- Dramaturgy in Der Kissenmann
- Dramaturgy in Jeder Tag ein Vollmond
- Dramturgy in Peer Gynt
- Theatre version , Dramaturgy in Mysterien
- Dramaturgy in Passion I und II
- Dramaturgy in Schande (Disgrace)
- Text editing assistance , Dramaturgy in King Lear
- Editing , Dramaturgy in Die Befristeten
- Dramaturgy in Robinson Crusoe
- Dramaturgy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Wie es euch Algorithmus.
- Concept, Dramaturgy in I never thought I’d need so many people oder Vom leeren Himmel
- Concept, Dramaturgie in Für immer
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Die Beamten
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Interview
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Die Abwesenheit des Propheten
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Der ideale Chor
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Zitronenfalter
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Listen
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Zytokinsturm
- Concept, Dramaturgie in Ankunft in Europa
- Dramaturgy in Me, a Robinson.
- Concept, Dramaturgy in Skin City