Katja Sonnemann

Katja Sonnemann works as facilitator, organizational transformation coach, trainer, consultant and producer. She is the initiator of the AKADEMIE für Performing Arts Producer of the Bündnis Internationaler Produktionshäuser e. V. which she has conceived and implemented from 2018 to 2024.

After studying Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, she worked as a tour manager for Sasha Waltz & Guests, head of the artistic planning at the Schaubühne and Gorki Theater in Berlin and head of artistic production at the 2005 Theater der Welt festival in Stuttgart. Since 2010 she has been working independently as a producer in the independent performing arts (with Rimini Protokoll and andcompany&Co.). Katja is a founding member of produktionsbande and a member of ietm, ITI and LAFT Berlin.

She holds workshops and seminars and advises various national and international artists and companies with a focus on production/distribution, forms of collaboration in teams, (international) cooperation, network building.

She facilitates team working processes and has trained in system change, team coaching, organisational transformation and feminist leadership.