Daniel Cremer (born Mönchengladbach, 1983) is a director, performance artist and body researcher. The experiential spaces he creates focus on intimate encounters between bodies, words, ideas and gestures. He is passionate about developing site-specific formats that enable visitors to experience the familiar in a new way. A recent example of this is the »Mozart Dance Explosion« – a concert in which he got the audience at the Mannheim Summer 2024 festival dancing to Mozart’s music and made the hunting hall of Schwetzingen Palace shake.

Having worked on and behind the stage as a freelancer since 2007, Daniel Cremer’s directorial work has been produced at theatres such as the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, and the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. He has toured internationally and has been invited to renowned festivals such as Radikal Jung in Munich (2020) and the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 2015, he received the Preis der Autoren (Authors’ Prize) for inventing immersive performative simulations in a language he created called »Fremdsprache«  (foreign language), presented under the label »Talking Straight«. He was the co-founder of the theatre group of the same name, to which he belonged until 2017.

Notable recent projects include the multidisciplinary production »Schule der Liebenden« (School of Lovers) at Theater HORA in Zurich (with Melanie Bonajo and Yanna Rüger, 2023), Arthur Schnitzler’s »Fräulein Else« as a livestream on Instagram during the pandemic (Mannheim, 2021), as well as the solo »Like a Prayer – Daniel Cremer in Ekstase«, which was released in 2024 as Gig Theatre at the SchwuZ Queer Club in Berlin on behalf of the Komische Oper. During the current season, he staged the semi-opera »The Indian Queen«, based on Henry Purcell, at Theater Aachen in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Colectivo Yama. He also produced an easy-language version of »Faust«, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, at Nationaltheater Mannheim.