Katja Wolff

After completing her A-levels, Katja Wolff studied German language and literature, theatre, film and television studies, philosophy and politics at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Following several years as an assistant director, she took up the post of chief director at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam. Since then, she has been staging both drama and musical theatre as a freelance director in Germany and Switzerland, including in Berlin, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Bonn, Schwerin, Mainz, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Dresden, St Gallen, Thun, Basel and Zurich. Her production of ‘Messeschlager Gisela’ in Cottbus was voted one of the best opera productions of 2025 by the FAZ.

She has worked as a guest lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of St Gallen.

In addition, Katja Wolff is involved in developing new material as part of a team of writers. She has a long-standing collaboration with Carsten Golbeck; together they developed the plays ‘Oben bleiben!’ and ‘3 Morde, Küche, Bad’. Among other things, she played a key role in the creation of the revues ‘Heiße Zeiten’, ‘Höchste Zeit’, ‘Himmlische Zeiten’, ‘Weiße Zeiten’ and ‘Wir sind mal kurz weg’, as well as the musical ‘Go Trabi Go’.

Katja Wolff lives in Berlin.