Valentin Schroeteler

Valentin Schroeteler, born and raised in Lucerne (CH) in 1994, is a freelance actor, theater musician and writer, currently based in Hamburg. Valentin completed his acting studies at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hannover(graduation: 2019) and was an ensemble member of the Junges Theater Münster (director: Monika Marta Kosik) for three years (2019- 2022). He is also co-founder of the street circus Compagnie Trottvoir in Switzerland and toured with it four times (2012-2015). He has previously worked as an actor and theater musician at the Staatstheater Hannover, DT Göttingen, Theater Münster, Theater Strahl and TdJW Leipzig, among others. He collaborates with Lucia Bihler, Ekat Cordes, Sergej Gößner, Volker Hesse, Swantje Lena Kleff, Jonas Steglich and Mathias Spaan, among others. In the summer of 2021 he was invited to the 180° Degree Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. In spring 2022, his solo performance KRIXLKRAXL XXL (directed by Cedric Pintarelli) was invited to the Penguin's Days Festival. He is a study prize winner of Migroskulturprozent 2016 and has received the "auf geht's" scholarship of the state of NRW in 2022. In 2023 he wrote his debut play Endstation Barbarei oder das Ende der Desillusion.