Christine Standfest born in 1963 in Germany. After and during studies of literature, gender and cultural studies and education in Regensburg, Berlin and Lancashire she turned from political activism to theatre, performance and theory. Since 1997 she works mainly with theatercombinat and director Claudia Bosse in Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, Podgorica and other cities, i.e. in "Fatzer" by Bertolt Brecht, "Massakermykene", "Sieben", "Anatomy Sade/Wittgenstein", "madcc psukb", "Sleep against Düsseldorf", "Mauser" by Heiner Müller, "Firma Raumforschung", "Où est donc le tableau", "Palais Donaustadt"; from 2006-2009 she researched and performed in theatercombinat's theatrical series "Producers of Tragedy" with various stagings and concepts directed by Claudia Bosse of the texts "The Persians" by Aischylos in Vienna, Geneva and Brunswick, "Coriolanus/turn terror into sport" by Shakespeare (Vienna) and "bambiland" by Elfriede Jelinek (Vienna/Düsseldorf), ending the series with "desasterzone" in Vienna, October 2009. Besides, dramaturgy, teaching and writing activities, i.e. with Barbara Kraus ("fuck all that shit", ImPulsTanz 2005) or Peter Stamer ("sans papier", Dance Congress, Berlin).