Krystyna Meissner (19 June 1933 – 20 February 2022) was a Polish theatre director.
[1] She rose to be the artistic director of the W. Horzyca Theatre in Toruń where she launched the international festival named Kontakt.
In time this festival would see leading German directors debuting their work in Poland including Thomas Ostermeier, Christoph Marthaler and Sasha Waltz.
[2] In 1994, she was the laureate in the theatre category for the Paszport Polityki award in its second year of operation.
[4] Meissner was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2014,[2] for fostering a strong presence of German theatre in Poland as well as leading the discovery of Eastern European theatre in Western Europe.