Lea Ruckpaul

Lea Ruckpaul absolvierte ihr Schauspielstudium an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. Sie gehörte zum Schauspielstudio des Staatsschauspiels Dresden, bevor sie mit Beginn der Spielzeit 2013/2014 ins dortige Ensemble wechselte. Hier arbeitete sie mit Regisseuren wie Tilmann Köhler, Jan Gehler, Simon Solberg und Sebastian Baumgarten zusammen. Weitere Engagements führten sie ans Schauspiel Stuttgart, wo Ruckpaul in Inszenierungen von Armin Petras und Jan Bosse spielte. Sie wechselte an das Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, dessen Ensemble sie von 2018 bis 2022 angehörte. In Düsseldorf spielte sie u. a. unter der Regie von Stephan Kimmig, Simon Solberg, Tilman Köhlers und Andreas Kriegenburg. Des Weiteren ist Ruckpaul als Autorin tätig: Neben einem Nachspiel zu «Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache» (Regie: Stephan Kimmig) hatte ihr Stück «My private Jesus» in der Regie von Bernadette Sonnenbichler Premiere am Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. 

Ab der Spielzeit 2023/2024 ist sie festes Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater.

Performing in

Imagine that you haven’t been born yet. And imagine too that your whole life so far is unimportant. Just like all the opportunities you might have missed or bad decisions you might have made. Leave it all behind you. In «Now or Never» we are going to make a completely fresh start!

Jetzt oder nie (Now or never)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 02 May

«Peer, you’re lying!»: Henrik Ibsen immediately highlights the key theme of his dramatic poem  in its opening line – the blurred boundary between illusion and reality. Because Peer, whose youth is shaped by the poverty of his farming background, continually reinvents himself with the aid of stories, lies and the arts of fabulation – as a cosmopolitan, a colonial master and even an Emperor.

Peer Gynt

Tessa Ensler is a successful lawyer whose supreme discipline is the defence of defendants in sexual assault cases. Then she herself is raped - by a colleague. She reports him and is now on the other side of the cross-examination - as the victim. With «Prima Facie», Suzie Miller gives a voice to millions of women who suffer violence worldwide.

Prima Facie
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 07 Apr
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 13 Apr
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 05 May
Artist talk afterwards
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Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 23 May

Romeo and Juliet set the language of love against the war of their relatives, the language of the dagger. Will they manage to set an example against the irreconcilable enmity that prevails in Verona? In-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach re-stages the world's most famous love story and the dance on the volcano that sweeps its main characters away, with lots of music and hot hearts.

Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet)
Premiere
Residenztheater
Fri 16 May
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 18 May
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 21 May
Residenztheater, 11.00 o'clock
Wed 23 Jul

In Stephan Kimmig's production, the boundaries between Shakespeare's fairy world and the harsh reality of the big city become blurred. Fuelled by Puck's magic, a summer night unfolds in which soon no one knows where love ends and obsession begins.

Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Thu 03 Apr
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
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Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 20 Apr
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
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Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 19 May
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
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