Hannah Schünemann is a dramaturge and scholar of literature and theatre. She has been working as a research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities" since October 2021, where she is pursuing her PhD on radical languages of form in contemporary theatre under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch. 

Hannah studied General and Comparative Literature and Theatre Studies in Munich (LMU) and Paris (Université Paris-Sorbonne IV). She completed her MA at the Freie Universität Berlin and the École normale supérieure Paris in 2016 with a thesis on ruptures in understanding in the work of Peter Szondi, Jacques Derrida and Paul Celan.  

From August to November 2023, she was a visiting scholar at the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at City University New York.

As a dramaturge and cultural professional, she has worked at the Volksbühne Berlin, the Berliner Festspiele, the Performing Arts Festival and Ballhaus Ost, among others.

Current research includes an EXC 2020 project, Ultraworlds. Radical Languages of Form in the Productions of Susanne Kennedy, Lucia Bihler, and Florentina Holzinger (2021-).