Mathias Hanus, born in 1982 in Munich, studied philosophy, musicology and German philology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. From 2010 to 2011 he was a guest assistant with the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich where he worked, among others, with Dieter Dorn and Jan Philipp Gloger. Since the season of 2011/2012 he is an assistant director at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe. There, he organised the staged readings of “Mitteilung Nummer 10” by Samuel Gallet, “Beg your pardon” by Marianna Salzmann, “Und dann” by Wolfram Höll as well as “Personalien” by Gérard Watkins. In October of 2013 he directed the world premiere of “Irgendwann in der Nacht” by Etel Adnan.