Martin studied Romance studies, Slavic studies and art history in Tübingen and Prague and worked at the European Capital of Culture in Pilsen. He completed his studies in music theater directing at the HfMT Hamburg with the interdisciplinary piece Membra. When I was dying.

Work as a dramaturge has taken him to Guayaquil (Ecuador), Bremen, Basel and Baden-Baden.

From 2019, he worked as a dramaturge at the Hanover State Opera, where he collaborated with the directors Martin G. Berger, Barbora Horáková, Lydia Steier and Elisabeth Stöppler. He is deepening his engagement with the pluralistic urban society at the Center for World Music Hildesheim in the extra-occupational Master musik.welt. Cultural Diversity in Music Education. Since the 2023/24 season, he has been co-directing JOiN, the Young Opera in the North of the Stuttgart State Opera, together with Keith Bernard Stonum. He is coming back to Hanover for us!

Since this edition, our festival has had a fantastic dramaturge in Martin Mutschler, who supports the artistic team in word and deed. He asks the right questions at the right time and checks everything that happens at the festival for consistency. Many of the texts that you can read about the festival or individual events were written by him or have at least crossed his desk. In addition, with his razor-sharp thoughts and likeable, warm charisma, he appears time and again as a presenter during the festival.