Julia Wissert is a Black theater and opera director. In 2014, she received the Kurt Hübner Prize for Young Directors for her diploma production Der Junge in der Tür (The Boy in the Door). During her studies, she received the City of Salzburg Award in 2013 for her interdisciplinary theater project about dying entitled Salzburger Totentanz and the Audience Award at the Körber Studio junge Regie in 2012 for her interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s Nora. For her written thesis Schwarz.Macht.Weiß. Eine kritische Analyse der Arbeitsbedingungen Schwarzer Theatermacher*innen an deutschsprachigen Stadt- und Staatstheatern (engl. title: A critical analysis of the working conditions of black theater makers at German-language municipal and state theaters), Julia Wissert received national attention. The work was presented in a staged reading at Studio Я. Julia Wissert has since worked at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Theater Trier. In 2016, her scenic installation Lebendfallen could be seen at Studio Я of the Maxim Gorki Theater as part of Flucht, die mich bedingt.