Greta Amend

Greta Amend – Actress. Director. Lecturer. Visionary.

Greta Amend is also Germany's most internationally renowned lecturer on acting and directing.

She is known for her unique fusion of acting, directing, and teaching – combining craft, psychological precision, and poetic freedom. With over 35 years of experience on stage and screen, she has developed her own post-method and cross-disciplinary approach to performance.

She studied acting in Hanover and trained at GITiS Moscow and Anatoly Vassiliev’s School of Dramatic Art. Greta performed at renowned theatres across Europe, including Sophiensaele Berlin, Gasteig Munich, Mind The Gap Wuppertal, Akademie der Künste Berlin, and Teatr Mali Warsaw. As a director, she staged Chekhov's White Nights and co-created the German-Danish production Chekhov – Revisited.

Her influences include Stanislavski, Meisner, Lecoq, Grotowski, Strasberg, Uta Hagen, and contemporary film acting.

Greta works as a coach and guest lecturer at leading institutions such as the National Film School of Denmark, German Film & Television Academy dffb, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Filmhaus Cologne, Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts & Technology / Plymouth Marjon University. 
She collaborates with award-winning actors and directors.

As a casting director, she oversaw daily casting for Gute Zeiten – Schlechte Zeiten and so far over 50 productions, including the biggest European-Russian arthouse project DAU by Ilya Khrzhanovsky (5 hr 30 min).

She co-founded Superbohemians, an artist duo dedicated to bold, interdisciplinary performance work. In 2025, she launched GRETA AMEND STUDIO in Berlin – a cutting-edge centre for actor-director training. Her formats are fully fundable in Germany and recognised internationally.

Her mission:
To create spaces where artists grow – personally, artistically, and professionally.