Anna Schönberg

Anna Schönberg grew up in Hildesheim. After a guest engagement at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, she studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. In Austria, she was engaged at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and in Bregenz and worked with the artist Carmen Brucic at the Burgtheater and the Haus für Musik und Theater (MuTh) in Vienna.
She was a member of the ensemble at Paderborn Theatre for three years and has also worked in the independent scene in Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin, e.g. at Theaterdiscounter, Ballhaus Ost, Kosmos Theater Wien and Sophiensaele. In 2015, she won the Audience Award at the 100° Festival Berlin with her own play »Wie man leben soll oder was macht Peter?« in a collective with Julia Tausend, with whom she has a longstanding collaboration.
From 2017 to 2024, she was a member of the ensemble at Neue Bühne Senftenberg, where she worked with Dominic Friedel on several occasions.
In 2021, Anna Schönberg made a guest appearance at the Lausitz-Festival under the direction of Christiane Pohle in »Rein Gold - ein Bühnenessay« by Elfriede Jelinek.
She was Marie in »Woyzeck«, Adela in »Bernarda Albas Haus« by Lorca, Maša in »Die Möwe« by Chekhov, Dorine in »Der Tartüff« by Moliere, Puck in »Ein Sommernachtstraum«, the Grand Duchess in Camus' »Die Gerechten«, Ariel in “Sturm”, Lady Milford in »Kabale und Liebe«, Jessica Höfels in »Frau Müller muss weg« and Nadja in »УТОПИЯ - Utopia« by M. Durnenkov and much more.
Anna Schönberg regularly takes on roles in cinema and television films. She was in front of the camera for the first German Netflix series »Dark« and most recently for an episode lead role in »Soko Leipzig«. She was invited to the film festival in Warsaw with her short film »Beate sits in the bathroom and remains silent«. The series »WatchMe - Sex sells« was shown at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken in 2024.
Anna Schönberg has been working freelance again since the 2024/25 season and is currently engaged as a clown at the opera in Hildesheim and at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg for »Achtsam morden«, directed by Holger Schultze.