© Dorit Gätjen Angelika Zacek
Direction, Stage Design
Angelika Zacek is an Austrian director for drama and opera. She initially studied acting and worked in Vienna, Linz and Hanover. She then studied directing at the Ernst Busch Academy in Berlin.
She has worked as a freelance director since 2008, including at the Staatstheater Cottbus, the Bühnen der Stadt Gera, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg. In 2011, her production of "Amphitryon" was decisive for the Würzburg theater's award for "Courageous Theater Work" at the Bavarian Theater Days. In 2018, she was nominated by the Theater heute yearbook in the critics' survey "Highlights of the Season" as the best up-and-coming artist. In 2020, critics celebrated her first opera production "In der Strafkolonie" (based on the story by Franz Kafka, music: Philip Glass) at Theater Altenburg-Gera. Her modern opera production of Giacomo Puccin's "Madame Butterfly" at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau followed in 2023.
Angelika Zacek has already taught at the Max Reinhard Seminar in Vienna, the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock.
In 2017, Angelika Zacek founded the association Pro Quote Bühne e.V. together with six other female directors and worked there for five years as chairwoman of the board for equal rights, equal opportunities, diversity, modern management techniques and corporate culture on German-speaking stages. As an expert, she is requested for various specialist committees, talks and interviews.
