Ana Me Zentgraf

Ana Me Zentgraf, born in Friedrichroda, Thuringia, is a Vietnamese-German artist. She studied Art History, Media and Communication Studies in Berlin and Leipzig, and Dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. In her artistic practice, she combines theatre-making with anti-discrimination strategies as well as questions of accessibility, participation and audience development. Zentgraf works with documentary and (auto)biographical material and explores the shifting boundaries between the private, the personal and the staged. As a performer, she explores forms of authenticity on stage and engages with migration heritage, particularly in East Germany. Her works question the relevance of the German theatre canon and cast a critical eye on the habitus produced by the German Stadttheater system, as well as on the underlying patriarchal and oppressive structures of the institution itself. Since 2019, she has primarily worked in the fields of directing, dramaturgy and writing. In 2023, she participated in the masterclass of the Radikal jung Festival at Münchner Volkstheater. In 2025, she presented the autofictional performance FIDSCHI RAGE at the 100° Diaspora Stage Marathon as part of Performing Exiles at the Berliner Festspiele; the work was also shown at the Festival Politik im Freien Theater of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb. In the same year, she was Artist in Residence at Urbane Künste Ruhr, where she researched Eastern European labor migration in the Ruhr region.