Georgia Doll was born on July 2, 1980, in
Vienna. At the age of eight years her parents left
Austria and moved to
Hamburg. After graduation and her literature and theater studies at the
University of Hamburg, she left Hamburg and studied theater in
Toulouse, theater directing in
Paris and playwriting in
Berlin. In 2006, her piece
Le Pays Sombre is played at the
Théatre Ouvert in Paris. Her other plays
Miss Europa fährt nach Afrika,
Der Hang zum Grundsätzlichen,
Der König hat Hunger,
Lorenzos Rückkehr,
Das blaue Gold,
Stranger as well as short pieces were played in
France,
Germany and
Austria, in particular in the cities of
Cannes,
Marseille,
Montluçon,
Graz,
Vienna,
Düsseldorf,
Hamburg, at the
Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the
Munich Kammerspiele and the
Maxim Gorki Theatre in
Berlin. In 2006, she also staged
Miss Europa fährt nach Afrika in Paris, in 2007 she founded the youth theater troupe "Anyigba Yéyé" in Amlame,
Togo, with whom she developed
Visite sur Terre and 2008 the
Bertolt Brecht play
Die Ausnahme und die Regel (2009 on Goethe Institute Lomé) and in 2013 she directed
Das blaue Gold in
Toulouse. In 2011, Georgia Doll was nominated for the
Munich Prize for German language and drama. Together with director Ida Clay in 2012 she co-directed the short film
Der Vogel und die Fenster. In 2013, she worked together with the actor and director Philip Baumgarten in an artist residency at the Marelle villa des Auteurs in the Friche de la Belle de Mai in
Marseille for their production
Sous le sixieme soleil, that has been sent in April of the same year in the Radio Grenouille in Marseille. As part of the author inside workshop out - new German pieces -, a cooperation of cultural and lifestyle publication
freitext,
Ballhaus Naunynstraße and the Ensemble of the
Maxim Gorki Theatrein
Berlin, her play
ich waren wir wir waren ich was shown at the studio Я of the
Maxim Gorki Theatre and in the Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Since 2012, she works in Marseille with her company Les Passagers du Mardi. Georgia Doll writes both in German and in French. In 2002, she published lyrical texts in the series
Junge Lyrik in the
Martin Werhand Verlag. In 2010, she was published in the anthology
Zwischenspiele: Neue Texte, Wahrnehmungs- und Fiktionsräume in Theater, Tanz und Performance in the
transcript Verlag. In 2013, she published her bilingual play ''Das blaue Gold: L'or bleu
in the Drei Masken Verlag''. == Awards ==