Lotta Paula Mathilda Beckers – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Lotta Paula Mathilda Beckers (she/they) lives in Berlin and works as a dramaturge and artist. She studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen, Choreography and Dance in Copenhagen and European Media Studies in Potsdam. She is currently part of the class for performative arts at the HGB Leipzig. As a dramaturge and co-author, she has a long-standing collaboration with theater director Noam Brusilovsky, with whom she develops documentary performances that question power structures and address the impossible in theater. She also regularly collaborates as a dramaturge and performer with choreographer Deva Schubert. Becker’s own artistic research revolves around the entanglements of desire and power. She is interested in the oscillation between the documentary and the poetic, the intimate and the public and the historical in the personal.