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  Juliane Votteler
Chief dramaturge at the Staatsoper Stuttgart

Juliane Votteler was born in Stuttgart in 1960. She studied early and modern German literature, theater, film, and television studies, and philosophy in Erlangen, Vienna, and Frankfurt am Main, receiving a master of arts.
Dramaturge at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, in the theater department under manager and artistic director Arnold Petersen.
Dramaturge at the Theater Basel, in the theater under manager and artistic director Frank Baumbauer.
Executive dramaturge at the Schauspiel Hannover under manager and artistic director Prof. Ulrich Khuon.
In 1995–97 lectureship at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, stage design course with Prof. Marco Japelj and Prof. Bernhard Kleber, dramaturgy and stage direction, responsible for student reviews of projects based on a model for individual dramatic explorations, advised on thesis projects.
In 1998–2000 lectureship in the stage design class at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart, with Prof. Jürgen Rose, on Verdi’s operas: history of their composition and performance tradition, and on Rigoletto: working out concepts and reviews based on a model.
In 1999–2000 lectureship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, with Prof. Michael Simon, Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre: performance analysis based on attendance at a performance and a video and the theme “Baroque”; exploration of time and forms of manifestation in philosophy, architecture, costume design, and stage design.
Since 2001 external member of the Musikhochschule Trossingen, Hochschule für Alte Musik.
From 1996 to 2006 head dramaturge and director of artistic coordination at the Staatsoper Stuttgart under manager and artistic director Prof. Klaus Zehelein. In 2007 she will become the director of the Theater Augsburg.