*1967 in Lübeck) is a German theatre and opera director and founder of the independent Berlin ensemble NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS, which she founded together with Oliver Proske at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1998.
After studying design at the HfBK Hamburg, she worked early on with video installations and performance formats. Her image-intensive music theatre works include works by Adams, Bach, Beethoven, Boesmans, Händel, Janáček, Kurtág, Ligeti, Mahler, Puccini, Rossini, Romitelli, Schubert and Schütz. They have been performed at renowned festivals, theatres and opera houses around the world, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie, the Opéra-Comique Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, the Wiener Festwochen and the Shanghai Concert Hall.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the George Tabori Prize (2011) and the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2016). Her production « Force & Freedom » was nominated for the Opus Klassik in 2021, while « Ein Volksbürger » (2024, in collaboration with Verfassungsblog) was nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen 2025 and broadcast in six languages on ZDF/Arte.
Hümpel teaches at various universities and regularly at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. She works as a juror for the German National Academic Foundation, among others, and has been an active advocate for the independent theatre scene in Berlin’s cultural policy for many years. In 2024, she spoke to the Cultural Committee of the Berlin Senate Administration in this context.
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