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Pauline Schönfelder

Pauline Schönfelder studied Performance Studies in Hamburg and works in the independent performing arts. She received a stART.up fellowship from the Claussen-Simon Foundation in 2024/25. Blending autobiographical storytelling, voice and choreography, she explores the ways society shapes our most intimate feelings, relationships and desires, with humour, romanticism and a taste for ambiguity.

Her latest work, OST (Original Soundtrack), premiered at Hamburg’s LICHTHOF Theater in 2025 and draws on her experience of growing up in the aftermath of German reunification. It also introduced dilemma, her pop alter ego, which made her a finalist for Hamburg’s Krach+Getöse Music Award.