studied theatre studies and French at the University of Vienna and completed her degree with a thesis on Samuel Beckett.
Even before graduating, she was hired as an assistant director, dramaturge and translator at festivals and theatres in Germany, and soon started working as a director. After her own translation of Molière’s Scapin the Schemer, premieres and first performances at Veit Relin’s Torturmtheater, and her first productions in Frankurt am Main, she returned to Austria where she founded the production label Theater.punkt in the late 1990s.
Ever since, she has been producing and coproducing her own projects. She also continues to accept invitations to direct at theatres in Austria and abroad.
She was appointed Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor for Gender Research in 2006 and still teaches on occasion. She was managing director and chairwoman of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit - Austrian Association of Performing Arts - and is a member of the supervisory board of the artist cooperative Smart Coop Austria.
Sabine Mitterecker translates from French into German, preferably plays she then directs herself, writes theatrical adaptations, adapts novels and needs strong texts; they´re what make her tick. She is always seeking to make her works socially relevant and has set herself the task of supporting younger colleagues. She enjoys working with people who share her conviction that theatre – as a public space of direct interaction with the audience – has the power and the obligation to use past experiences to help us negotiate the present and shape the future.
Her productions of NICHTS SCHÖNERES and FROST were awarded the Nestroy Prize. For PUSH-UP 1-3, a coproduction with the Volkstheater under the management of Emmy Werner, the author Roland Schimmelpfennig also received a Nestroy Prize.
©Landestheater Linz | Sophokles ANTIGONE Landestheater Linz 2003 | Isabella Szendzielorz Gerald Brössner Lutz Zeidler
©3007 | Sabine Mitterecker
©Ralph Zeger | Tournéetheater Kempf 2011 | Marion Kracht Simon Hatzl
©Landestheater Linz | Thomas Bernhard AM ZIEL Landestheater Linz 2006 | Nicole Coulibaly Sylvia Glogner
©Landestheater Linz | Johann Nestroy DER ZERRISSENE Landestheater Linz 2007 | Guido Wachter
©Landestheater Linz | Sarah Kane PSYCHOSE 4.48 Landestheater Linz 2003 | Marianne Hamre Sylvia Glogner
©Johannes Gellner | Natascha Gangl ZUGVÖGEL. Ein Schauflug Theater im Palais Graz 2008 |
Christina Scherrer Sönke Schnitzer Robert Seiler
©Landestheater Linz | Thomas Bernhard HELDENPLATZ Landestheater Linz 2004 | Isabella Szendzielorz Günter Rainer
©N©tker | Marie NDiaye HILDA Theater in der Drachengasse 2003 | Alexandra Sommerfeld
©theater.punkt | Nestroy-Preis 2010
Marlen Haushofer JENSEITS DER WAND – a homage
Developed and adapted by Sabine Mitterecker for the opening of
Wachau in Echtzeit 2021
with Ursula Strauss
Natascha Gangl HAUS DER ANTIKÖRPER. A duologue from DIE GROSSE
ZOOLOGISCHE PANDEMIE
Adapted and directed by S.M. for Kultursommer Wien 2020
with Christina Scherrer and Jeanne-Marie Bertram
Pol Sax “U5” Kasematten theatre with Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2012 |
Novel adapted and play directed by S.M.
Premiere with Luc Feit Julia Malik Germain Wagner
Set and costumes designed by Anne Neuser
Simon Stephens HARPER REGAN
Kempf touring theatre company 2011 | Directed by S.M.
with Simon Hatzl Klara Höfels Jon Kiriac Marion Kracht Katrin Osterohde Andreas Patton
Set and costumes designed by Ralph Zeger
Natascha Gangl ZUGVÖGEL. Ein Schauflug Theater im Palais Graz 2008 | Directed by S.M.
Premiere with
Judith Bohle Andrea Bröderbauer Ionut Chiriac Michael Großschädl Christina Scherrer Sönke Schnitzer Robert Seiler Istvan Vinze Nora Wiel
Set and costumes designed by Sonja Brandmaier
Johann Nestroy DER ZERRISSENE Landestheater Linz 2007 | Directed by S.M.
with Thomas Bammer Lana Cenčič Silvia Glogner Thomas Kasten Manuel Klein Klaus
Köhler Günter Rainer Guido Wachter
Set by Ralph Zeger Costumes by Ivonne Theodora Storm Music by Nebojša Krulanović
Thomas Bernhard AM ZIEL Landestheater Linz 2006 | Directed by S.M.
with Nicole Coulibaly Silvia Glogner Lutz Zeidler
Set by Anne Neuser Costumes by Alexandra Pitz
Thomas Bernhard HELDENPLATZ Landestheater Linz 2004 | Directed by S.M.
with Eva-Maria Aichner Georg Bonn Gerhard Brössner Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner Thomas Kasten Günter Rainer Olga Strub Isabella Szendzielorz
Set by Anne Neuser Costumes by Alexandra Pitz
Sophocles ANTIGONE Landestheater Linz 2003 | Directed by S.M.
with Georg Bonn Gerhard Brössner Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner
Olga Strub Isabella Szendzielorz Lutz Zeidler
Set by N©TKER Costumes by Alexandra Pitz
Sarah Kane 4.48 PSYCHOSIS Landestheater Linz 2003 | Directed by S.M.
with Bettina Buchholz Silvia Glogner Marianne Hamre Sigrun Schneggenburger
Set and costumes designed by N©TKER
Marie Ndiaye HILDA Theater Drachengasse 2003 | Directed by S.M.
Austrian premiere with Julia Malik Alexandra Sommerfeld
Johannes Zeiler
Set and costumes designed by N©TKER
Ingeborg Bachmann Cycle as part of the styriarte 2001 | Project developed and directed by S.M.
with Heidi Leupolt
Eve Ensler VAGINA MONOLOGUES Schauspielhaus Vienna 2000 | Directed by S.M.
Austrian premiere with Brigitte Antonius Christine Jirku Simone Mende
Set and costumes designed by Toni Wiesinger