Barbara Nüsse

Barbara Nüsse, born in Essen in 1943, studied drama at the Otto Falckenberg Schule in Munich. She worked with Hans Lietzau at Munich's Residenztheater, in Cologne with Hansgünther Heyme and Roberto Ciulli, and in Stuttgart and Bochum with Claus Peymann and Niels-Peter Rudolph, among others. From 1980 to 1985, Barbara Nüsse was engaged at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and from 1986 to 1989 at Schillertheater Berlin. From 1989, she worked in Basel, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Zurich, Munich and Hamburg with Barbara Bilabel, Kazuko Watanabe, Werner Schroeter, Wilfried Minks and Christoph Marthaler. In 2010, Barbara Nüsse was awarded the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring by the city of Bensheim for her performance in König Lear (directed by Karin Beier). In 2018, she was awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST for her Prospero in Der Sturm. A Lullaby for Suffering (directed by Jette Steckel). Since the10/11 season, Barbara Nüsse has been a member of the ensemble at Thalia Theater, where she has worked with Nicolas Stemann, Johan Simons and repeatedly with Luk Perceval, among others.