Contact
paula.holzhauer@gmail.com
Paula Holzhauer (she/her, *1994) was born in Kassel and is currently based in Berlin. She is a multimedia artist working across theatre and audio formats. After working as a social worker for refugees, she studied Visual Communication (B.A.) and Media Art (M.F.A.) at Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rijeka, Croatia.
Her artistic focus lies in research-based practice, immersive theatre and audio formats, as well as graphic design. Her fictional works are rooted in documentary material, based on field studies, interviews, and extensive research.
Her work has been presented at Kunstfest Weimar (2021, 2023, 2024), Monodrama Festival LUX, Theaterhaus Erfurt, Schiller Museum Weimar, tAk – Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg Berlin, and Design Week Zagreb 2022, among others.
Since completing her studies in 2023, she has been working on her own projects as well as collaborating with Rimini Protokoll as an artistic associate and as a freelance assistant director for audio plays, including productions for RBB and WDR.
She is a recipient of the Thuringian Graduate Scholarship for 2025/26.
Contact
paula.holzhauer@gmail.com
Paula Holzhauer (she/her, *1994) was born in Kassel and is currently based in Berlin. She is a multimedia artist working across theatre and audio formats. After working as a social worker for refugees, she studied Visual Communication (B.A.) and Media Art (M.F.A.) at Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rijeka, Croatia.
Her artistic focus lies in research-based practice, immersive theatre and audio formats, as well as graphic design. Her fictional works are rooted in documentary material, based on field studies, interviews, and extensive research.
Her work has been presented at Kunstfest Weimar (2021, 2023, 2024), Monodrama Festival LUX, Theaterhaus Erfurt, Schiller Museum Weimar, tAk – Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg Berlin, and Design Week Zagreb 2022, among others.
Since completing her studies in 2023, she has been working on her own projects as well as collaborating with Rimini Protokoll as an artistic associate and as a freelance assistant director for audio plays, including productions for RBB and WDR.
She is a recipient of the Thuringian Graduate Scholarship for 2025/26.
2024
Crises, wars, right-wing extremism – the performative reading Remigriert euch ins Knie is a humorous first-aid course on protest culture and how it can help liberate us from collective states of powerlessness.
Remigriert euch ins Knie was created in collaboration with Kunstfest Weimar 2024. The premiere took place at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, one week after the 2024 Thuringian state elections.
Text, Performer: Tamara Semzov and Paula Holzhauer
2024
Crises, wars, right-wing extremism — Remigriert euch ins Knie is a performative reading in the form of a humorous first-aid course on protest culture, exploring how it can help us break free from collective states of powerlessness.
It was created in collaboration with Kunstfest Weimar 2024. The premiere took place at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, one week after the 2024 Thuringian state elections.
Text, Performer: Tamara Semzov and Paula Holzhauer
Protokoll m – oder der Tag, an dem der Wolf anfing den Mond zu jagen (The Day the Wolf Started Chasing the Moon) is an installation-based audio play that investigates the phenomenon of the Monday Demonstrations and their appropriation by right-wing and neo-Nazi groups. It portrays a fictional support group for residents living along the demonstration route and explores possibilities for democratic coexistence.
Der Montag is a newspaper that presents our research alongside contributions and submitted texts from and for the citizens of Weimar. https://der-montag.info
The outcome includes an academic publication by Pauline Bönisch and Joel Schülin, and an artistic work by Paula Holzhauer.
Protokoll M was supported by 23:ideas – 100 Years of Bauhaus exhibition and the Bauhaus-University Graduation Scholarship 2023.
2020/21
Marquisette examines the reconstructed history of sex work in Weimar from 1930 to 2020, drawing on urban legends and local memory. The project consists of three interconnected parts: binaural audio walk guiding listeners through four distinct eras of sex work in the city; a photographic documentation of all alleged former brothels in Weimar; and a publication compiling texts, findings, and photographs into a dossier created for the Weimar City Archive.
The project was supported by the Women’s Empowerment Fund 2020 and the Bauhaus Graduation Scholarship 2020. Premiere was at Kunstfest Weimar in 2021.
Text / Concept / Research / Direction: Paula Holzhauer Voices Svea Geseke, Thomas Schimanski Mastering Janis Blumenauer, Webdesign Yael Ohmer Press Thüringer Allgemeine Reprophotos Anna Perepechai Graphic Design Paula Holzhauer Consultation Astrid Drechsler, Katrin Steiger, Jörn Hintzer