Katharina Faltner, born in Passau in 1982, studied stage and costume design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. At the Burgtheater in Vienna, she worked as an artistic assistant to Stéphane Laimé under the direction of Matthias Hartmann and Jan Bosse. She designed the stage set for the Austrian premiere of demut vor deinen taten baby by Laura Naumann (directed by Alexander Ratter) at Burgtheater Vienna. Further work took her to the Schauspielhaus Zurich (Woyzeck, directed by Stefan Pucher) for the opening of the 2013/14 season and to the Staatstheater Braunschweig, where she collaborated with director Anna Bergmann (Homo Faber).