Larissa Probst (she/her)

Larissa Probst studied cultural studies and cultural mediation at the University of Hildesheim. She has been working as a freelance theatre mediator and director in Stuttgart since 2020. From 2014 to 2018, she researched new participatory modes of staging strategies for young audiences with her theatre collective BwieZack and developed productions with and for hearing and deaf young people. Her productions were performed at Junges Theater Göttingen, LOT-Theater in Braunschweig and the Graz Opera, among others. Since 2018, her work has focussed in particular on intergenerational staging concepts and collaborations and their positioning in a discourse critical of adultism. From 2020 to 2023 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Children’s and Youth Theatre Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since the 2020/21 season, Larissa has been a guest assistant director in dance and theatre productions at Junges Ensemble Stuttgart and a theatre educator in the KiTa cooperation project. In 2022, together with Frederic Lilje, she led the artistic collaboration ‘Kinderarbeitsagentur’. She has been amployed in the dramaturgy department of theatre education since 2024.