Friederike Hirz completed her dance education with a focus on contemporary dance at the Centro Estatal de Bellas Artes in Mérida, Mexico. She then studied political science at the University of Hamburg and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, graduating in political theory. Between 2012 and 2014, she assisted Frank Castorf, René Pollesch and Silvia Rieger, among others, in numerous productions at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin. She staged Die Verwandlung after Franz Kafka on the third floor of the Volksbühne. Since October 2014, she has been studying directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Her studies took her as a guest student to the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen and to the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin. As a freelance dramaturge, she worked at Ballhaus Naunynstraße with Jao Moon for his dance performance Memory of dislocation – exactly the same in the opposite direction, among others.