Renate Aichinger (born 28 November 1976 in

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) is an Austrian playwright and theatre director. She studied theatre, film and media studies at the

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whilst working for various small theatres in Vienna and subsequently also for larger theatres in Switzerland, Germany and Austria including Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich,

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and

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. Since 2009, she has been working at the Junge Burg Wien. Since the season of 2012/13, she has also directed the Bürgertheater of the Landestheater Niederösterreich (State Theatre of Lower Austria). Two of her plays have been nominated for the Retzhofer Dramapreis: "WWW.COM" (2003) and "Rosa Rossi sucht das Morgen" (2011).

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