Dorothea Marcus

Born in 1969, she studied German Philology and History at FU Berlin. She has been a freelance cultural journalist since 1999 – first based in Freiburg, then in Cologne – for the newspaper taz, the public radio channels Deutschlandfunk and WDR, for the magazine Theater heute and the online portal nachtkritik.de, among others. She was a jury member for the Cologne Theatre Award, NRW-Theatertreffen and the NRW Jugendtheatertreffen Westwind (conference of theatres for young people in North Rhine-Westphalia). From 2009 to its termination in 2014, she was editor-in-chief for the theatre magazine aKT in Cologne. She teaches “Writing about dance and theatre” for the degree course Dance and movement culture at the German Sport University Cologne.