Katja Wischniewski

Theatre Maker · Director · Performer · Playwright · Theatre Therapist

Katja Wischniewski is a Berlin-based theatre maker, director, performer and theatre therapist. Her artistic practice moves between contemporary theatre, physical performance, somatic research and political theatre. At the intersection of body, memory and social transformation, she explores how individual experiences are shaped by collective histories, social structures and relations of power.

Her work investigates questions of identity, self-determination, vulnerability and resistance. Drawing on experimental theatre, movement practices, autobiographical material and political performance, she develops performative spaces in which personal narratives meet broader social realities. Her approach combines physical exploration, theatrical experimentation and critical reflection, seeking forms that make visible what is often silenced, normalised or rendered invisible.

She has worked in various institutional and independent theatre contexts, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Landestheater Neustrelitz, as well as in educational and community-based settings. Alongside her artistic work, she has been engaged in political and feminist contexts, bringing questions of social justice, collective agency and emancipation into her theatrical practice.

She studied Theatre Therapy at the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences Berlin (KHSB) and completed her practical training. She continues to deepen her somatic practice through Body-Mind Centering® at the Somatische Akademie Berlin.

As the initiator of **Embodied Narratives**, she develops independent productions, performative research and artistic collaborations exploring the transformative potential of theatre — as an artistic practice, a space for encounter and a means of imagining different ways of being together.