Theatre is too fast or too slow, too visionary or too old-fashioned, too sentimental or too clever – but it is always aligned with the present. Birgit Unterweger performed at the Salzburg Festival in Leander Haussmann’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” while still studying acting at the Mozarteum. In 2003 she was voted Most Promising Actor of the Year in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since then, she has been a member of the ensembles at Schauspiel Dortmund, Centraltheater Leipzig, Schauspiel Stuttgart and the Deutsches Theater Berlin and has collaborated with Sebastian Hartmann, Jette Steckel, Philipp Preuss, Robert Borgmann and others. For her, the themes that belong on stage are anything that will occupy, touch, disturb, annoy or delight people.