Born in 1984 in Hamburg, Lilja Rupprecht worked as an assistant director at Thalia Theater Hamburg from 2005 to 2009, where she also directed Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins.
In 2009, she began studying directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. At Deutsches Theater Berlin, she staged The Legend of Paul and Paula after Ulrich Plenzdorf (2010), Lenz by Georg Büchner (2012), Jules and Jim after Henri-Pierre Roché (2013), and Heart of a Dog after Mikhail Bulgakov (2016).
Further productions include Caligula by Albert Camus (Volkstheater München, 2015), Big and Small by Botho Strauß (Schauspiel Köln, 2016), Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts (Schauspiel Köln, 2017), Amerika after Franz Kafka (Schauspiel Stuttgart, 2018), Jeff Koons by Rainald Goetz (Schaubühne Berlin, 2018), Antigone by Sophocles (Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2019), and Attacks on Anne by Martin Crimp (Schaubühne Berlin, 2024).
In summer 2019, she directed the world premiere of Thomas Melle’s Überwältigung at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms.
At Staatstheater Hannover, she has directed productions including Goethe’s Werther, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch, Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, The Little Prince, and Ashes by Elfriede Jelinek.
In the 2024/25 season, she will direct The Birds—from Aristophanes to Daphne du Maurier to Alfred Hitchcock—at Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Theater HORA.
Photo: Moritz Grewenig