Raphaela Bardutzky is an author and dramaturge from Munich. Her plays have been performed at venues including the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, the Schauspiel Graz, the Theater Heidelberg, the Landestheater Linz, and the Schauspiel Leipzig.
Humorous, rhythmic, and form-conscious, Bardutzky’s texts often deal with social inequality, precarious working conditions and classism. The climate catastrophe also plays a recurring role. Her drama Fischer Fritz was awarded the Audience Prize for New Drama at the Munich Kammerspiele and also won at the Autor:innentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2022. In 2023, she received the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize in the literature category for her theater text Das Licht der Welt (The Light of the World). The play Altbau in zentraler Lage. Eine Schaueroper (Old Building in a Central Location. A Shudder Opera) was nominated for the Mühlheim Drama Prize in 2025.
Starting in the 2025/26 season, Raphaela Bardutzky will be the resident author at the Staatstheater Nürnberg.
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