Karin Beier
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Karin Beier (born 1965) is a German theatre director.
Beier was born in Cologne, Germany, after studying English studies in Cologne, Karin Beier moved into theatre. She established an English language theatre, and staged Shakespeare plays in their source language. Theatres began to grow in popularity, and she became the director of the Düsseldorf Theatre. Here she was able to display her first professional theatre production. Her teacher in Düsseldorf was the renowned Iraqi director David Mouchtar-Samorai.
Rightaway after her staging of Romeo and Juliet in 1994 she was invited to the "Berliner Theatertreffen" and granted an award by the leading German theater magazine "Theater heute". The following year she directed productions at the "Deutsches Schauspielhaus" in Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Munich Kammerspiele, and the Burgtheater in Vienna.
In 2004 and 2005 she has lead stage direction at the "Nibelungen-Festival" in Worms, performing Christian Friedrich Hebbel's 1861 play Nibelungen.
From 2007 on Karin Beier will be director of the Cologne Theatre.
