Sabine Mitterecker

studied theatre studies and French at the University of Vienna and completed her degree with a thesis on Samuel Beckett.


Even before graduating, she was hired as an assistant director, dramaturge and translator at festivals and theatres in Germany, and soon started working as a director. After her own translation of Molière’s Scapin the Schemer, premieres and first performances at Veit Relin’s Torturmtheater, and her first productions in Frankurt am Main, she returned to Austria where she founded the production label Theater.punkt in the late 1990s.

Ever since, she has been producing and coproducing her own projects. She also continues to accept invitations to direct at theatres in Austria and abroad.


She was appointed Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor for Gender Research in 2006 and still teaches on occasion. She was managing director and chairwoman of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit - Austrian Association of Performing Arts - and is a member of the supervisory board of the artist cooperative Smart Coop Austria.


Sabine Mitterecker translates from French into German, preferably plays she then directs herself, writes theatrical adaptations, adapts novels and needs strong texts; they´re what make her tick. She is always seeking to make her works socially relevant and has set herself the task of supporting younger colleagues. She enjoys working with people who share her conviction that theatre – as a public space of direct interaction with the audience – has the power and the obligation to use past experiences to help us negotiate the present and shape the future.


Her productions of NICHTS SCHÖNERES and FROST were awarded the Nestroy Prize. For PUSH-UP 1-3, a coproduction with the Volkstheater under the management of Emmy Werner, the author Roland Schimmelpfennig also received a Nestroy Prize.

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©Landestheater Linz | Thomas Bernhard AM ZIEL Landestheater Linz 2006 | Nicole Coulibaly Sylvia Glogner

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©3007 | Sabine Mitterecker

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©N©tker | Marie NDiaye HILDA Theater in der Drachengasse 2003 | Alexandra Sommerfeld

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©Landestheater Linz | Sarah Kane PSYCHOSE 4.48 Landestheater Linz 2003 | Marianne Hamre Sylvia Glogner

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©Ralph Zeger | Tournéetheater Kempf 2011 | Marion Kracht Simon Hatzl

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©Landestheater Linz | Sophokles ANTIGONE Landestheater Linz 2003 | Isabella Szendzielorz Gerald Brössner Lutz Zeidler

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©Landestheater Linz | Johann Nestroy DER ZERRISSENE Landestheater Linz 2007 | Guido Wachter

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©Landestheater Linz | Thomas Bernhard HELDENPLATZ Landestheater Linz 2004 | Isabella Szendzielorz Günter Rainer

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©Johannes Gellner | Natascha Gangl ZUGVÖGEL. Ein Schauflug Theater im Palais Graz 2008 |

Christina Scherrer Sönke Schnitzer Robert Seiler

Productions beyond theater.punkt

Marlen Haushofer JENSEITS DER WAND – a homage

Developed and adapted by Sabine Mitterecker for the opening of

Wachau in Echtzeit 2021

with Ursula Strauss



Natascha Gangl HAUS DER ANTIKÖRPER. A duologue from DIE GROSSE

ZOOLOGISCHE PANDEMIE

Adapted and directed by S.M. for Kultursommer Wien 2020

with Christina Scherrer and Jeanne-Marie Bertram



Pol Sax “U5” Kasematten theatre with Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2012 |

Novel adapted and play directed by S.M.

Premiere with Luc Feit Julia Malik Germain Wagner

Set and costumes designed by Anne Neuser



Simon Stephens HARPER REGAN

Kempf touring theatre company 2011 | Directed by S.M.

with Simon Hatzl Klara Höfels Jon Kiriac Marion Kracht Katrin Osterohde Andreas Patton

Set and costumes designed by Ralph Zeger



Natascha Gangl ZUGVÖGEL. Ein Schauflug Theater im Palais Graz 2008 | Directed by S.M.

Premiere with

Judith Bohle Andrea Bröderbauer Ionut Chiriac Michael Großschädl Christina Scherrer Sönke Schnitzer Robert Seiler Istvan Vinze Nora Wiel

Set and costumes designed by Sonja Brandmaier



Johann Nestroy DER ZERRISSENE Landestheater Linz 2007 | Directed by S.M.

with Thomas Bammer Lana Cenčič Silvia Glogner Thomas Kasten Manuel Klein Klaus

  Köhler Günter Rainer Guido Wachter

Set by Ralph Zeger Costumes by Ivonne Theodora Storm Music by Nebojša Krulanović



Thomas Bernhard AM ZIEL Landestheater Linz 2006 | Directed by S.M.

with Nicole Coulibaly Silvia Glogner Lutz Zeidler

Set by Anne Neuser Costumes by Alexandra Pitz



Thomas Bernhard HELDENPLATZ Landestheater Linz 2004 | Directed by S.M.

with Eva-Maria Aichner Georg Bonn Gerhard Brössner Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner Thomas Kasten Günter Rainer Olga Strub Isabella Szendzielorz

Set by Anne Neuser Costumes by Alexandra Pitz



Sophocles ANTIGONE Landestheater Linz 2003 | Directed by S.M.

with Georg Bonn Gerhard Brössner Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner

Olga Strub Isabella Szendzielorz Lutz Zeidler

Set by N©TKER Costumes by Alexandra Pitz



Sarah Kane 4.48 PSYCHOSIS Landestheater Linz 2003 | Directed by S.M.

with Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner Marianne Hamre Sigrun Schneggenburger

Set and costumes designed by N©TKER



Marie Ndiaye HILDA Theater Drachengasse 2003 | Directed by S.M.

Austrian premiere with Julia Malik Alexandra Sommerfeld

Johannes Zeiler

Set and costumes designed by N©TKER



Ingeborg Bachmann Cycle as part of the styriarte 2001 | Project developed and directed by S.M.

with Heidi Leupolt



Eve Ensler VAGINA MONOLOGUES Schauspielhaus Vienna 2000 | Directed by S.M.

Austrian premiere with Brigitte Antonius Christine Jirku Simone Mende

Set and costumes designed by Toni Wiesinger