Hannah von Sass, born in 1987, is a postdoc at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin, and she works, under her artist’s name Hannah Zufall, as a free-lance writer for theatre, opera and film. Currently, she is pursuing a research project on the terminology in theater text theories and is leading the international network “Studies on contemporary playwriting (2001-2021),” funded by the German Research Council (DFG). In the academic year 2020/21, she held a Junior fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald, Germany; 2018/19 she was awarded a writer-in-residence scholarship in Jena, Germany for one year. In 2018 she obtained a Ph.D in German Literature from the Institute for German Literature (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Steffen Martus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch, Free University Berlin), with a scholarship of the ‘Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’ and with a research scholarship of the PhDnet Das Wissen der Literatur at the Department of German, University of California, Berkeley. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as an assistant director at the theatre Schaubühne Berlin; the directors include Thomas Ostermeier, Friederike Heller, Romeo Castellucci, Marius von Mayenburg, Michael Thalheimer, Falk Richter; she also assisted the Festival of International New Drama (FIND). From 2007 to 2012, she studied Scenically Arts at the Hildesheim University and at the Université de Provence in France, also with a scholarship of the ‘Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’.
Hannah von Sass
Feodor Lynen Fellow, NYU Department of German Visiting Scholar (August 2022 – July 2023)
"Die liebe Verwandtschaft? Über ökoethische Narrative der Annäherung," Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, vol. 11 (2022) [forthcoming].
"The Golden Age? Ältere Frauen auf und hinter der Bühne," an essay with Ariane Koch, War schön, kann weg. Alter(n) in der Darstellenden Kunst, ed. by Angie Hiesl / Roland Kaiser, Theater der Zeit (in the series Recherchen), Berlin 2022 [forthcoming].
"Imaginierte Natur. Über umweltethische Tendenzen in der Gegenwartsliteratur," Geschichte der Gegenwart, online paper (05/22/2022).
"Undine spricht. Ingeborg Bachmanns‚ Undine ‘im Kontext ihrer medialen Genese," Weimarer Beiträge, vol. 1 (2021), 84-101.
"Dänisches Sushi," Metamorphosen, vol. 30 (2021), 10-15.
"Quer-, Nach- und Überdenken. Zum Vollzug der Nachdenklichkeit," Nachdenklichkeit, ed. by Christine Abbt et al., Berlin 2020, 71-76.
Das Märchen im Drama. Eine Studie zu deutschsprachigen Märchenbearbeitungen von 1797 bis 2017 (Forum Modernes Theater), Tübingen 2019.
"Das Theater der Insekten," with Lisa Heller, Tiere Erzählen, ed. by Jessica Ullrich / Alexandra Böhm (Tierstudien, vol. 15), Berlin 2019, 98-107.
"Seither bin ich Wahrheitssucherin, auch in sprachlichen Angelegenheiten. Zu den Korrelationen in Walsers und Jelineks Märchenadaptationen," daß Goldenes Anfängliches uns nie verläßt.
Beiträge der jungen Robert-Walser-Forschung (Robert Walser-Studien, vol. 1), ed. by Lukas Gloor / Rebecca Lötscher, Paderborn 2019, 81-92.
Ernst sein ist alles – Die Instrumentalisierung des Spiels im Schauspiel, "Spielzüge. Zur Dialektik des Spiels und seinem metaphorischen Mehrwert," ed. by Stefan Berg et al., Freiburg im Br. / München 2014, 196-222.
Feodor Lynen research scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, New York, 2022–2023.
2. Award at Deutsche Preis für Nature Writing for "Insection", Germany, 2022.
Hamburg producer prize for German TV productions (series) of "Warten auf‘n Bus", season 2, Filmfest Hamburg, Germany, 2021.
Scholarship "Eigene Stelle", Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany, 2021–2025.
Alfried Krupp Junior-Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany, 2020–2021.
Honorable mention at the Retzhofer Dramapreis for “Gloria”, Graz, Austria, 2021.
Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.), Graz, Austria, 2020.
Fellowship in Residence, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche der Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany, 2020.
3rd Prize of the Bochumer Dramatikerpreis for “Maikäfer”, Germany, 2019.
Writer in Residence with a Clara-und-Eduard-Rosenthal-Stipendium, Jena, Germany, 2018-2019.
Writer in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany, 2018.
Scholar in the PhD-Net Das Wissen der Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2016–2018.
Scholar in the dissertation program of the Studienstiftung d. deutschen Volkes, Germany, 2014–2018.
Audience award, best short film for "MMF", Grenzland-Filmtage, Germany, 2016.
Scholar in the study program of the Studienstiftung d. deutschen Volkes, Germany, 2014–2018.