Sascha Flocken

Studied political science and philosophy in Mannheim. From 2009 to 2013, he was an assistant director at the Freiburg Theatre under Barbara Mundel and directed his first productions there. Since 2013, he has worked as a freelance director in Freiburg, Essen, Stuttgart and Zurich, among others. In addition to various world premieres (e.g. by Tina Müller and Reihaneh Yuzbashi Dizaji) and his own novel adaptations (e.g. ‘89/90’ by Peter Richter), he developed the series ‘Die NSU-Protokolle’, the multi-generational project ‘Mehrheitsgesellschaft’ with young refugees and senior citizens and ‘Silent Service’ with carers in training. He was a fellow at the 18th Schiller Festival in Mannheim and at Stage@Play at TheaterRampe. His productions have been invited to various festivals and guest performances. For example, ‘Ich, Moby Dick’ and ‘Die besten Beerdigungen der Welt’ in 2018 and 2020 to the Bright View festival, ‘Schoggiläbe’ to the Jungspund Festival 2020 (Switzerland) and the Mülheim Children’s Play Prize, ‘Penthesilea – Love Is To Die’ (in the Bambi Bambule collective) to the Berlin Performing Arts Festival 2020. In 2021, he created the performative spatial installation ‘Der Eleusis Effekt’ with his group team:team. He also works as a production manager for the International Festival of Performing Arts ‘Performing Democracy’ 2024, among others.

At JES, he has so far created ‘Scream – a populistisches Mash-Up’, ‘Wir so: Welt retten’ and ’Die Bremer Stadtmusiktiere’.