Vita
Ingeborg von Zadow is an internationally renowned playwright based in the UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg, Germany. Born in Berlin and educated bilingually in Germany, the USA and Belgium, she holds an M.A. in Theater from State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. The Agent/Publisher Verlag der Autoren in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, started representing her professionally at the age of 22, after she had spent her youth writing and performing.
Her plays, often written for young audiences, have themes such as friendship, the actions of human beings and the way of the world. They focus on core emotional experiences and capture moments of growth and self-awareness through humor, rhythm and theatrical imagination. Ingeborg von Zadow´s plays have been staged in more than 160 professional national and international productions and translated into 12 languages. She won the Brothers-Grimm-Prize of the State of Berlin and was nominated for the German Children's Theater Prize and the Mülheimer Children's Plays Prize.
Portrait (German)
Awards
2026 | International Writers Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, USA, with grant of the Max-Kade-Foundation
2024 | Playwrights Grant from the German Literature Fund for "From the same Wood", commisioned by Theater Koblenz (Premiere 2026)
2023-25 | German representative of Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe - New Voices
2021 | Projectgrant of Baden-Württemberg for new Operalibretto
Grant of the VG Wort
2019 | Guest of Honour at the 28. Playwrights Conference in Obrzycko, Poland
2016 | Nominated for German Children´s Theater Prize with „House of Great Surprise"
2016 | Guest of Honour at Colombo International Theater Festival Sri Lanka
2014 | Long-listed for German Children´s Theater Prize with "Go Now Go"
2014 | International Playwright Observer at the Festival "New Visions, New Voices"
Kennedy Center Washington D.C., USA
2012 | Long-listed for German Children´s Theater Prize with "Outside the House"
2011 | Nominated for Mülheimer Children´s Plays Prize with "Just the Way We Are"
2009 | "Nah dran!" Grant for New Children´s Plays
Children´s and Youth Theater Center Germany and German Literature Fund
2001 | Brothers-Grimm-Prize of the Federal State of Berlin
2001 | One-Year-Scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
1993/94 | Fulbright-Scholarship for MA at SUNY Binghamton, New York, USA
1991/93 | Grants for Wolfenbüttler Workshops for Children- and Youth Theater
Children´s and Youth Theater Center Germany
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