Ginka Tscholakowa

Biography

Ginka Tscholakowa is a translator, writer, and theatre and film director. Born in Bulgaria in 1945, she came to the GDR in the 1960s and has been living primarily in Berlin ever since. Between 1967 and 1986 Tscholakowa and Müller works on many projects together, including “The Task” and “Macbeth”, which they staged together staged together at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the beginning of the 1980s they. She was a member of the jury at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre for many years. Recently she has produced a film for the 100th birthday of Stephan Hermlin.