Birgit Stöger

Birgit Stöger, born in 1975 in Graz, studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During her actor training she had her first engagements at the Schauspielhaus Graz. From 1999 to 2004 she was a company member at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and in 2004 she received an engagement at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. Afterwards she worked as a freelance artist, including at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Sophiensäle Berlin. From 2010 to 2015 she was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Graz and from the 2015/16 season a company member at the Volkstheater Wien. Honoured with the advancement award of the City of Düsseldorf, the young performer award and the performer award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2017 she was awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize in the category Best Supporting Role for the role of Arsinoe in The Misanthrope (2016, Volkstheater Vienna, directed by Felix Hafner) and further for Dem Merkl Franz seine Erna in Kasimir and Karoline (2017, Volkstheater Wien, director: Philipp Preuss). Since 2021 she has been working as a freelance artist in Vienna. Most recently she could be seen at the Theater am Werk in DIE VERLORENEN (director: Maria Sendlhofer) and at the Hamakom Theater in BENT (director: Matthias Köhler).
Currently she can be seen at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (R)evolution (Director: Yael Ronen) and at the Kosmos Theater Vienna in NESTBESCHMUTZUNG.