Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger

Actor, director, interdisciplinary artist – Rom, Italy / Berlin, Germany
Participant International Forum 2024

Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger (German/Russian) is a film and theatre director and actor. She operates at the intersection of documentation and fiction, instinctively seeking fragmentation, interdisciplinarity and transnationality, aiming to create poetic spaces of discourse.

In her work, she explores conventions of collective agreement, including questions such as: What can we and do we want to agree on? What do we need to work and communicate with integrity, awareness and creativity? And always: Why theatre?

After completing her acting studies at HMT Rostock, receiving the Proskenion Young Talent Award for Performing Arts, and working as an actor at Theater Heilbronn, she pursued a directing degree at HfS Ernst Busch and founded the Berlin workshop stage FLUGWERK. She engaged in short films in collaboration with children affected by forced displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon. In 2020, Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger won the Emerging Directors Competition at Theater Erlangen for “PROTEST4”, developed with activists from Hong Kong, Chile and Lebanon. In 2021, she presented her diploma project “Heterotopie Moria” which discusses human rights violations at the EU’s external borders. In 2022/2023, she received the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship and a Fellowship from the International Theatre Institute, while staging plays at several municipal theatres. Currently, she is working on a short film and a series project. Anastasija is based in Rome and Berlin.