Born 1968, director of contemporary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria, which she has been running since 2006. In addition, Veronica Kaup-Hasler is member of a selection of juries, the council of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and as of 2017, a lecturer on the “Curating Dramatic Arts” course at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Previous positions include dramaturge at Basel Theatre, for the Wiener Festwochen and artistic directorship of the Theaterformen festival in Hanover and Brunswick (2001 – 2004).