"I understand art as a process of reconnection."
My work explores the relationship between the personal and the collective, and I keep returning to the question of how connection becomes possible - especially in moments of conflict, rupture or transition.
My process is guided by the subconscious, by play and ritual, by humour and critical inquiry. I create experiences with emotional depth that are participatory, multiperspective and perspective-shifting.
Experiences of illness, healing, death, loss, grief and caregiving have reshaped how I understand art. I am increasingly drawn to working with plant medicine and to better understand the relationship between humans and nature, and the role art can play within it.
Living across languages and cultures has given me a transnational sensibility and an awareness of shifting forms of belonging in a global society. My projects grow interdisciplinarily through collaboration with communities and experts from fields such as science, politics, activism and care.
I focus on creating contexts where questions can breathe – holding space for deeper exploration without fear. Much of my work begins in a simple uncertainty: how to navigate together without assuming the coordinates are fixed.
Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger (German/Russian) is a director, writer, and actor who lives and works between Rome and Berlin. She is currently developing a short film project on grief and a participatory theatre installation based on the Sisyphos myth.
Between 2022 and 2025, she experienced personal loss and illness, taking time for care, to reflect and reconnect with her artistic process.
In 2024, she was invited to the International Forum of Theatertreffen Berlin. In 2022/2023, she received the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship and a Fellowship from the International Theatre Institute (ITI Academy).
Her work engages with social and political contexts. In 2021, she presented her diploma project Heterotopie Moria (HfS Ernst Busch), which examines human rights violations at the EU’s external borders and interrogates EU asylum policies. In 2020, she won the Emerging Directors Competition at Theater Erlangen for PROTEST4, developed with activists from Hong Kong, Chile, and Lebanon.
As a trained conflict mediator, she is particularly interested in projects that extend beyond the theatre and engage with communities directly. She works at the intersection of art and social work – and has created two short films in collaboration with children affected by forced displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon.
Anastasija studied acting at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock and worked at Theater Heilbronn while early on developing own artistic projects. In 2016, she pursued a directing degree at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin and founded FLUGWERK e.V., a workshop stage for process-oriented artistic work and open rehearsals.
She has received several awards for her work as an actor on stage and in TV/film – including the Proskenion Nachwuchsförderpreis für Darstellende Künste and Best Supporting Actress at Die Seriale – as well as for her work as a director (see awards below).
2022
Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship,
Universität der Künste, Berlin
2020
Regienachwuchswettbewerb
Vol. IV Umbrüche, Theater Erlangen
2019
Best Supporting Actress,
Die Seriale, Gießen
2017
Diritto Al Corto Roma
2017
Best Human Rights
Bucharest Short Film Festival
2014
Proskenion Nachwuchsförderpreis
für Darstellende Künste
2012 + 2013
1. Platz Interdisziplinärwettbewerb,
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock
2024
Fellowship International Forum,
Theatertreffen Berlin
2022 - 23
Fellowship ITI Academy, International Theatre Institute,
Berlin and Frankfurt am Main
2022
Screenwriting Summer School,
international filmschool, Cologne
2018 - 19
Mediation qualification
Mediationsbüro Mitte, Berlin
2016 - 21
Directing Studies, Diploma (Schauspielregie)
Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch, Berlin
2010 - 14
Acting Studies, Diploma (Schauspieldiplom)
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock
Feel free to get in touch
Directing Agency
Agentur naked eye | Cornelia Partmann
Stargarder Str. 20 | 10437 Berlin
+49 30 844 30 907
info@agentur-naked-eye.de
www.agentur-naked-eye.de
Acting Agency
INITIO Schauspiel | Ann-Marie Heidfeld
Rosensteinweg 27 | 89075 Ulm
+49 731/14394770 | +49 152/38218408
mail@initio-schauspiel.de
www.initio-schauspiel.de