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Katja
Fischer

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vita

Katja Fischer completed her degree in dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, graduating with a diploma in dramaturgy. She has worked as a theatre educator since 2013, holding this position at Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Theater an der Ruhr and Deutsche Oper am Rhein before joining Cologne Opera in 2022. She has realised numerous participatory projects with children, teenagers and young adults, and her theatre groups have twice been invited to the Rampenlichter Theatre Festival in Munich.

She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary formats and new approaches to opera. In 2021, she took on the artistic and educational project management for the construction of a sound playground in Duisburg and has continued to initiate new outreach formats ever since.

She increasingly combines her work with new subject areas: following further training in urban nature education, she developed formats such as “In the Forest with …” and directed the “Community Opera” project from 2023 to 2025, in which more than 150 young people participated in the creation of an opera. Together with her colleague Stephanie Sonnenschein, she developed the series “Opera for the Very Young” and will also direct its third edition, “Everything That Sounds”, with her in the 2026/27 season. In November 2026, she will also curate the festival “Power Up – The Democracy Festival” and co-direct the production “Grand Hotel of Emotions”, featuring an inclusive children’s chorus at Cologne Opera, together with Natalija Stankovic.

current productions with Katja Fischer

upcoming events with Katja Fischer

  • Alles, was klingt
    Oper für die Allerkleinsten
    10:00 AM to Glockengasse
    Premiere
    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

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    Alles, was klingt
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  • Alles, was klingt
    Oper für die Allerkleinsten
    11:30 AM to Glockengasse
    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

    sold out

    Alles, was klingt
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    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

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  • Alles, was klingt
    Oper für die Allerkleinsten
    03:00 PM to Glockengasse
    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

    sold out

    Alles, was klingt
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    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

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  • Alles, was klingt
    Oper für die Allerkleinsten
    04:30 PM to Glockengasse
    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

    sold out

    Alles, was klingt
    to
    Für Kinder unter 3 Jahren mit Begleitung

    cast

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