Leonie Böhm

Leonie Böhm was born in Stuttgart in 1982 and is a polymath with qualifications in three disciplines. She began by studying Art and German Literature at a training college for high school teachers and trained as an art mediator at documenta 7. She completed her studies of art at Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2011 as a master student of Urs Lüthi. That same year she began studying theatre directing at the Theatre Academy in Hamburg. The productions she directed during her course, Bittere Tränen (2014) and Kasimir und Karoline (2015), received numerous invitations for guest performances. She now works as a director, performer and visual artist. One of her first productions, Nathan die Weise, was invited to the national festival for emerging talents, Radikal jung in Munich. She works at theatres such as the Münchner Kammerspiele, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich and Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. In 2024 her Zurich production Blutstück was invited to the Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna. With Fräulein Else, freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler in 2025, she worked together with the actor Julia Riedler at Volkstheater Wien for the first time. For this Leonie Böhm won the 2025 NESTROY-Prize for “Best Direction”. The production has also been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2026.