Julie Paucker

Julie Paucker is a Swiss dramaturge, arts administrator, and author. She serves as the artistic director of KULA Compagnie, an international theatre group.

Paucker was born in Basel and grew up in Zürich. She studied German and Comparative and French Literature in Zürich and in Hamburg. After completing school, she worked as a project manager for theatre at Migros Culture Percentage.

From 2006 to 2012 she worked as a dramaturge at the Theatre Basel, working alongside Elias Perrig, Werner Düggelin, Christiane Pohle, Corinna von Rad, and Christoph Marthaler. She partnered with Die Zeit to design a speech series called Wohin treibt die Schweiz?, which she later published as a book with Peer Teuwsen. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as the dramaturge and a co-director at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany. She worked with Robert Shuster to co-found KULA Compagnie, a multilingual international theatre group made up of German, French, Afghan, and Israeli actors. Her company performs in Switzerland, Germany, France, and Poland. She serves as the artistic director for KULA Comapgnie and has worked with the Afghan theatre group AZDAR.