Vita
Ingeborg von Zadow was born in Berlin and brought up in Germany, the USA and Belgium. She has been writing plays since her childhood. She studied in Gießen and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theater from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. She has worked as Assistant Director on many opera and play poductions. With the support of the Goethe Institute she has traveled to Australia, England, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Sri Lanka and the USA.
Since her debut as a playwright with ME AND YOU there have been over a hundred professional productions of Ingeborg von Zadow´s plays on german and international stages. Her works have been translated into twelve different languages. In addition to writing plays, Ingeborg von Zadow also writes librettos for opera and german dialogue books for englishspeaking television formats.
Ingeborg von Zadow lives in Heidelberg, Germany, and is represented by Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
Portrait (German)
Awards
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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