Ekaterina Trachsel studied Scenic Arts (B.A.) and Staging the Arts and Media (M.A.) at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2017, she has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. She wrote her Doctoral thesis on the topic “De-Montage as a Dramaturgical Practice in Contemporary Theater” (Doctoral advisor: Prof. Dr.
Annemarie Matzke). In addition to teaching at the University and doing her research, she is freelancing as a theatre maker with the theatre collective
VOLL:MILCH and the interdisciplinary artists’ collective MONSTER CONTROL DISTRICT (www.vollmilch.me).
