Joanna Lewicka will be the new acting director in Schwerin!

Joanna Lewicka will be the new acting director in Schwerin!

Schwerin, Deutschland - Joanna Lewicka, a seasoned director with a wide -ranging horizon of experience, will take over the management of the drama division at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin from the 2026/2027 season. This was announced in a press release from the theater. The change brings a breath of fresh air to the Capital of Culture Schwerin, and many are excited to see which impulses Lewicka will set.

The Silesian -born has dealt intensively with the theater in the past two decades. After studying the director at the University of Music and Performing Art in Frankfurt/Main, she began to do theater in Germany and Poland. Her stations include renowned houses such as the Zurich Schauspielhaus and numerous theaters in Lublin, Rostock and Wiesbaden. Of particular note are their international work, which they led to Cambodia, Lithuania, Italy, Greece and Ukraine, such as Nachtkritik.de With its impressive portfolio, Lewicka has already received many awards. Her staging of "Antigone" was awarded the German Theater Prize of the Faust in 2024 and in the past her processing of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was celebrated as the cultural event of 2012. Also your dance production based on T.S. Eliot attracted attention in 2022 and 2024 by inviting it to the Polish dance platform.

commitment and teaching

But Lewicka is not only active in the theater, but is also intensively involved in social projects. Since 2015 she has been working regularly with the Khmer Community Development in Cambodia, where she uses methods of the Forum Theater from Augusto Boal to promote conflict management and reconciliation. Her focus is on the support of ethnic minorities and the creation of professional, socially committed theater productions.

In addition to her directorial activity, she has been taught theater studies and director in global context since 2020 at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. She also worked as a guest lecturer at the Marie-Curie University in Lublin from 2016 to 2020, where she taught students in the classic pieces "Die Möwe" by Chekhow and "The Troer" by Euripides.

a promising future in Schwerin

From August 2026, Lewicka will strengthen the management team of the Mecklenburg State Theater and lead the acting division. Until then, Nina Steinhilber remains the responsible management of the division in Schwerin. Leawicka's experience, paired with her tireless commitment to social issues and its impressive artistic success, many hope that it will enrich the theater in Schwerin with new, exciting concepts - in the sense of their previous work.

Joanna Lewicka not only signals a new beginning for the Mecklenburg State Theater, but also embodies the further development and exchange within the theater landscape in Germany. A look at your work so far and what is coming to us in Schwerin will look forward to the coming season. For all theater lovers: Inside in the region, there is undoubtedly an exciting chapter ahead of us.