Dennis Krauß was born in 1991 in Berlin, and studied directing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in his home city. He went on to become an assistant at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Berliner Ensemble. Since then, he has collaborated regularly with the director Ulrich Rasche, working as his artistic assistant at the Salzburg Festival, the Residenztheater in Munich, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Stuttgart State Opera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
In addition, Dennis Krauß has distinguished himself with his own productions, both as a director and as a set and costume designer. He first attracted attention with a version of Tristan und Isolde for children, which received its premiere as part of the 2021 Bayreuth Festival and was revived at the 2024 Tokyo Spring Festival. He made his debut at Theater Aachen in 2022 with Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Engagements followed at the theatres of Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Chemnitz and Regensburg, where his production of Tristan und Isolde attracted much interest in 2024. In the 2025/26 season he will direct another Wagner opera, Der fliegende Holländer, at Theater Osnabrück, before staging new productions of Don Giovanni in Chemnitz and La bohème in Krefeld. He is a finalist of the European Opera-directing Prize 2025. The final round of the competition will take place this autumn in Geneva.
