Tanja Diers

Tanja Diers is a dramaturge and curator based in Copenhagen. Since 2011 she is Cand. Mag in Theatre and Performance Studies from University of Copenhagen with a Master’s thesis about the aesthetics of Rimini Protokoll. In 2009 she studied at Freie Universität in Berlin under Prof. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte.
Tanja has worked at the Danish theatre Sort/Hvid for six years in close collaboration with Danish director and playwright Christian Lollike. At Sort/Hvid she has worked as dramaturge in a broad range of works – theatre, happenings, opera and performance, in collaboration with many different artists – musicians, actors, visual artists and so called ‘everyday experts’ – always with a political outset.
She has a.o. worked with Rimini Protokoll, Das Beckwerk, Tue Biering and Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt & Andreas Liebmann. Additionally she has led a playwright’s workshop for six years and curated three international festivals. She is currently external examiner at University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University. She is collaborating with ODC Ensemble since 2017.