Paula Wellmann, born in 1986, studied stage design at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2010 to 2013 and at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten in Maastricht from 2006 to 2008.

From 2008 to 2010, she was permanently employed as a set design assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, where she worked with Claus Peymann, Robert Wilson, Leander Haußmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann and Achim Freyer, amongst others. From 2011 onwards, she designed stage sets with the director and choreographer Aniara Amos, including for the Magdeburg Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romolo ed Ersilia at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.

In 2015, she began working with Ersan Mondtag and the KAPITÆL ZWEI KOLEKTIF. As part of the collective, they developed the interdisciplinary performance Party #4 – NSU at Mixed Munich Arts, and she worked on the set and costume design for Tyrannis at the Staatstheater Kassel (invited to the 2016 Berlin Theatertreffen).

Her regular collaboration with directors such as Emre Akal, Christian Weise, Lilja Rupprecht and Ersan Mondtag has taken her to venues including the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

Her productions have been invited to the Theatertreffen Berlin and the Wienerfestwochen on several occasions. In 2017, she received the Bonacker Prize from the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, and in 2020 she was named Set Designer of the Year by the trade magazine Die deutsche Bühne.

Paula Wellmann works regularly with the director Lucia Bihler: following her set designs for Mein Kampf at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and for Der Bau at the Theater Lübeck, she is developing the set design for Die Räuber at the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 2026.

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