Andrea Clausen

Andrea Clausen, born in Oldenburg in 1959, trained with Etienne Decroux in Paris and subsequently studied drama at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Clausen first performed at the Burgtheater in 1990 and received the Kainz Medal as Vienna’s Female Actor of the Year in 1991. Since then she has been a permanent member of the Burgtheater ensemble (with the exception of a brief period from 1994 to 1996, when she was engaged at the Schaubühne in Berlin). In 2006 Ilse Haider painted Clausen’s portrait for the Burgtheater’s new portrait gallery.