Theresia Walser (born 1967 in Friedrichshafen) studied acting at the University for Music and Theatre in Bern and was an ensemble member at the Junges Theater Göttingen. Her plays Das Restpaar (The Last Couple) and Kleine Zweifel (Little Doubts) were premiered in 1997. Further plays include King Kongs Töchter (King Kong’s Daughters, 1998), So wild ist es in unseren Wäldern schon lange nicht mehr (Our Forests Haven’t Been This Wild in Forever, 2000), Ich bin wie ihr, ich liebe Äpfel (I Am Like You, I Love Apples, 2013) and Im Turm zu Basel (In the Tower of Basel, 2016). In the 2013/14 season, she was writer-in-residence at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. Theresia Walser was voted best emerging writer in the 1998 critics’ poll conducted by the magazine Theater heute and best German-language writer in the 1999 poll. She has also been honoured with the Goethe Institute Translation Prize and Prize for New Plays (1999 and 2001), as well as a fellowship for the 2006 Frankfurter Positionen festival sponsored by the BHF Bank Foundation.