Babett Arens

[3] From 2001 to 2007, she was engaged at Schauspiel Frankfurt, after which she returned to working primarily in Austria, at venues such as the Landestheater Niederösterreich, Theatersommer Haag, and the theater group Aktionstheater Ensemble.

[3] Other roles include Claire Zachanassian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit and Marthe Rull in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Broken Jug.

[2] Since the early 2010s, Arens has also directed productions in Austria, including at the Landestheater Niederösterreich and in Vienna at the KosmosTheater, the Volkstheater, and the Theater zum Fürchten.

Her staging of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths at the Theater zum Fürchten earned a nomination for the Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Off-Production.

Early roles included two episodes of the series Derrick, followed by appearances in Swiss productions, such as Markus Imboden’s film Katzendiebe and his modern adaptation of Heidi, based on Johanna Spyri’s novel.