Julia Riedler, born in 1990 in Salzburg, where she also grew up, is an actress, radio play voice actor and director. She studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. In her final year of study, she was taken on as a permanent member of staff at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and in 2013 received the Boy-Gobert Nachwuchspreis for outstanding acting performances. She was a permanent ensemble member at the Schauspiel Köln and from 2015 to 2020 at the Münchner Kammerspiele, where she received the advancement award of the Association for the Promotion of the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2015, the AZ Star of the Year as best actress in 2016 and the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize in 2017.
Since 2020 she has been working freelance, including at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Salzburg Festival and in Vienna at the Volkstheater and Burgtheater, where she was nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Prize for best supporting role in 2021 and won the Nestroy for best actress in 2025 with her solo show „Fräulein Else“, as well as being voted actress of the year by „Theater heute“ and invited to the 2026 Berlin Theatertreffen.
She can be seen in various film and television productions, such as in Tatort (2022 Frankfurt, 2026 Cologne), the ARD series „30 Tage Lust“ (2024), and the French feature film „Conann“, which premiered in Cannes in 2023.
Since 2018 various teaching assignments at the Thomas Bernhard Institute Salzburg, the Otto Falkenberg School Munich, the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy and the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, where she also held a visiting professorship in 2025.
She directed „Hamlet“ at the Theater Freiburg in early 2026.
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