is a Theater Creator.
She works as a freelance Director and as a Theater Educator in Switzerland, Ireland, Germany and Austria.
She is a founding member of the theater collectives projekt.vakuum, Papadaya and tender fools.
She is interested in collective working processes, as well as their interplay with socio-politically relevant topics such as Queer Feminism, Post-humanism and Utopian approaches to Political and Social change.
Friederike Karpf holds an MFA in Theater Directing from The Lir Academy, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Sciences and Theater Theory from the University of Zurich and Bern.
She completed a year of Master's studies in Theater Education at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Should I stay or should I go? (WT) by tender fools in Summer 2025 in Holzpark Klybeck in Basel.
Photo ©Birgit Mantek
Perspectives on Water and Death (WT) by Papadaya in Summer 2025 in Dublin.
©Sleep of the just. (Poach the future) E. Macleod, 2012
Theater projects at various schools in the city of Zurich in 2025.
Photo ©Birgit Mantek
"If we don’t do anything about it, it’ll just be someone else doing it next month and someone else the
month after that. And I’ll know they’re doing it! It’ll always be someone else. That’s the problem!" Kurt in The Nest
Photo ©Porki Heifer
"Better than you! At least we switched to biodegradable Christmas trees early enough, unlike you! You are screwed." Shell in tanken 2.0.
Photo ©Birgit Mantek
"Because the later can sometimes shine a different light on the now. This place will always be here. It belongs to you. Always." Future in tanken 1.0.
Photo ©Birgit Mantek
“We encourage all students, lecturers and alumni to upload
their university logins to the platform "Free Luni", whereupon all those who are not yet
allowed to do so can choose a login and have the same privileges and
possibilities as we do". Galileo in Abgehoben..
Photo ©Birgit Mantek
"We would never trample on money. People are assigned the value of money and then they are supposed to multiply it. Each in their own way. The more options the less choices people make, after all death is a certainty for all of them." Jelinek in Abraumhalde
"Layer upon layer upon layer is layered, condensed. An indefinable lump
which neither you nor I can say with certainty what it once was, how
it is connected, why it is. Whether it was at all." Projekt.vakuum in
Schichten.
Photo ©Andreas Baumann
friederike.karpf@hotmail.de