Laura de Weck

Laura de Weck, born in 1981 and raised in Paris, Hamburg, and Zurich, studied acting at the Zurich University of the Arts (HdK). Early on, she also began staging her own texts, such as Espace Schengen (2013), at venues including Theater Gessnerallee in Zurich and Kampnagel in Hamburg. Her linguistic-musical performance Archiv des Unvollständigen (Archive of the Incomplete), developed with Thom Luz, was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis, as was her debut play Lieblingsmenschen. Additionally, she has received numerous invitations and grants, including from the Literarisches Kolloquium Berlin, a work grant from Pro Helvetia, and participation in the workshop days at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Her plays Lieblingsmenschen and Sumsum were published by Diogenes Verlag and have been translated into several languages.
From 2011 to 2023, Laura de Weck wrote «scenic columns» for the Swiss papers Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund, which were also published as a book in 2016. In 2017/18, she was a fellow at the Munich Screenwriting Workshop. Since 2019, she has been a permanent member of the critics' panel on the SRF television program Literaturclub (alongside Milo Rau and Elke Heidenreich, among others), a show she has also been hosting since autumn 2023, alternating with Jennifer Khakshouri. She was the creator and head writer of the SRF series Emma lügt (Emma Lies), which aired in 2022, and has been serving as a jury member for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize since 2024 and the German Book Prize since 2025.