Paulina Neukampf, born in Poland and raised on the island of Wolin, is a theatre director. She initially studied Technical Cybernetics and Polish Philology in Poznań. Following a stay in Tokyo, where she studied Butoh dance and Noguchi Taiso, she moved to Germany in 2006 and worked as a dramaturg with directors including Armin Petras and Luk Perceval. She subsequently studied theatre directing at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg. Her graduation production FaustIn and Out, based on Elfriede Jelinek, received the Audience Award at the Körber Studio Junge Regie in 2015. As a freelance director, Neukampf has worked at theatres including Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Hannover, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Oberhausen and Deutsches Theater Berlin. Her productions focus particularly on the realities and perspectives of young people, and alongside stage productions she develops participatory and site-specific projects. From 2020 to 2024, she was artistic director of jott, the children’s and youth theatre department at Theater Paderborn. Since 2024, she has been working again as a freelance director. In the 2026/2027 season, Paulina Neukampf directs Otfried Preußler’s Die kleine Hexe, adapted for the stage by John von Düffel, at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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