Heiko Voss
Faculty

Heiko Voss

Teacher of DramaturgyOpera Studies Department

Heiko Voss studied dramaturgy, musicology and modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding.He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and worked as a dramaturge on the feature film production Das Zimmer im Spiegel while still a student. 

At the end of his studies, Heiko Voss was hired as a dramaturge at the Heidelberg Theatre in 2008/09 before moving to the Salzburg State Theatre for two seasons. He has been a dramaturge at Freiburg Theatre since the 2011/12 season, initially under the directorship of Barbara Mundel and since the 2017/18 season under Peter Carp.In February 2015, he staged Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore here, making his directorial debut as part of a directing duo with Rudi Gaul. He has taught at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg and has held a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg since the 2013/14 winter semester. Guest engagements as a production dramaturge have taken him to the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre and the Konzert Theater Bern. Since the 2019/20 season, Heiko Voss has been a member of the artistic management team at Theater Freiburg as head dramaturge of the music theatre department.