Jörg Vorhaben

Jörg Vorhaben was born in Hamburg and studied theater studies, sociology, and education in Erlangen, Berlin, and Amsterdam. During his studies, he worked as an assistant director at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and co-organized ARENA—International Week of Young Theater in Erlangen.

In the 1999/00 season, he was assistant dramaturg at Schauspiel Hannover, from 2000 to 2002 dramaturg at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, and from 2002 to 2006 dramaturg at Schauspiel Köln. At these theaters, he worked with K.D. Schmidt, Albrecht Hirche, Niklaus Helbling, Friederike Heller, and Sebastian Baumgarten, among others. From 2006 to 2014, he was senior dramaturg at the Oldenburg State Theater and director of the Go West Theater Festival from Flanders and the Netherlands.

Since the 2014/2015 season, he has been chief dramaturg at the Staatstheater Mainz. He was dramaturg for the productions Ramstein Airbase – Game of Drones (director: Jan-Christoph Gockel), Sleepless (director: Hannah Barker), All das Schöne (director: Jana Vetten), ForsterHuberHeyne (director: ensemble and Peter Van de Eede), and Drei Mal die Welt (director: Jan Neumann), among others.