Marielle Schavan

Berlin, Germany
Participant International Forum 2025

Marielle Schavan (born in Düsseldorf in 1991) studied Creative Writing and Staging the Arts and Media at the University of Hildesheim. She is a founding member of the queer-feminist theatre collective Henrike Iglesias, with whom she has developed numerous performances since 2012 and has toured nationally and internationally. She also works as an author, performer and dramaturge on independent theatre projects and discourse formats, such as the feminist dream school ACADEMY, the inclusive performance café KAFi Q with actors of Theater HORA at Gessnerallee Zurich and the choreographer and director Olivia Hyunsin Kim. Marielle is currently researching the amplification of gender-specific violence in social media and networks.