Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger (German/Russian) is a film and theatre director and actor. She operates at the intersection of documentation and fiction, instinctively seeking fragmentation, interdisciplinarity and transnationality, aiming to create poetic spaces of discourse. In her work, she explores conventions of collective agreement.
After completing her acting studies at HMT Rostock she worked at Theater Heilbronn and played various main roles. 2016 she continued her studies and pursued a directing degree at HfS Ernst Busch – while founding the Berlin workshop stage for open rehearsals FLUGWERK e.V.
Anastasija worked in social projects and created two short films in collaboration with children affected by forced displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon.
In 2020, she won the Emerging Directors Competition at Theater Erlangen for PROTEST4, developed with activists from Hong Kong, Chile and Lebanon. In 2021, she presented her diploma project Heterotopie Moria which discusses human rights violations at the EU’s external borders. In 2022/2023, she received the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship and a Fellowship from the International Theatre Institut and in 2024 she was invited to the International Forum of the Theatertreffen Berlin.
Anastasija won several awards for her work as an actress on stage and in TV/film (Proskenion Nachwuchförderpreis für Darstellende Künste, Best Supporting Actress at Die Seriale) and for her work as a film and theatre director.
She directs at various municipal theatres and the liberals arts scene. She is currently working on two film projects.
Anastasija lives in Rome and Berlin.