Latest Projects
2025 – Die Kretische Ziege (The Cretan Goat – Long Distance Hiking Trail) – Reading Berlin
2024 – La Famiglia – Theater Play – Teatro S. Anna – Turin
2024 – Lesereihe: Lieder der Blüten, Lieder des Dunkeln (Poems, German) Berlin, Regensburg, Bozen, Roma
2023 – Lieder der Blüten, Lieder des Dunkeln (Songs of Flowers, Songs of the Dark) (Editor Athena/Duisburg) – Poems (German)
2022 “Arietes”, http://www.volt-film.com/arietes
Film (Role: “the Mother”)
2019 Intime Lieder / Canti Intimi (Editor Athena, Duisburg)
Poems (bilingual)
Years of gathering creativity
Giovanna Salabè was born in Rome in 1963 of an Italian father and a German mother. She grew up in an international and multilingual environment.
Very early in life she felt drawn to Art, Literature and Theatre.
Her musical training started at school with eight years of classical guitar lessons. After the completion of A-Levels in 1982, she finaly left Italy in order to qualify in Musical Education at the University of Regensburg (Germany).
1985 she plays the Role of the Girl in the play Die Versicherung by P. Weiss directed by Ulrich Pöppl in the Studententheater Regensburg.
Years of acting training
Years of acting training1990 at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri in Verscio/Switzerland and 1991 with Desmond Jones in London Giovanna still moves between Commedia dell’Arte and Mime. 2004 she comes across Dominique De Fazio – Protégé of Lee Straßberg (Actors Studio) – and his Program for Professional Actors in Rome, Milano, Munich and Hamburg and finally finds what she was looking for: the Poetic Theatre.
1988 Giovanna won a prize at the Youth Litarature Prize of the Regensburger Schriftstellergruppe International and in 1998 a prize at the Literature Prize „Amalia Rosselli“ (Rivello/Italy).
Giovanna trained from 1997 to 2001 as Heilpraktikerin (“healing practitioner”) and Shiatsu-Therapist and concludes in this way an abundant gathering phase.
Years of producing creativity
As Giovanna was assistant director of J. Berlinger – 2004 the play Die Pfarrhauskomödie (H. Lautensack) at the Turmtheater Regensburg – she gains a vast experience in the field.
For her this was a professional cornerstone so led her to opening Grenzgänger, her own theatre project in Regensburg from 2005 to 2007. A private stage production was completed with refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia.
On moving to Berlin in 2009, the new project Teatro delle Voci, an Audio-Installation with walkable stage is performed. Thanks to the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) and the Cultural Association Malaparte e.V. the spectators themselves experience space and sound space.
In 2010 and 2011 Giovanna returns to the stage as a performer in both plays of M. Majce, Ein Aufenthalt (Ballhaus Ost) and Within the Enterim (Hebbel-am-Ufer2).
In Berlin, from 2010 to 2013, she commited herself to adolescents with migration background and developed the theater projects, Ick bin een Berliner and Turn Tears to Fire.
In the 2016 film Schlaganfall® (www.kurzfilm-wer-Augen-hat.de) written by Giovanna, she combines her experience in theatre and therapy where all that has been explored, lived and experienced flows together.
In 2024, La Famiglia follows at the Teatro Sant’Anna in Turin. The role of the former diva Marisa seems tailor-made for G. Salabè.
G. Salabè contributes as the author to the development of Epidauros in 2025. The play is staged at the Hoftheater Kreuzberg in Berlin. The theme of war and violence is addressed, as is its psychological processing thanks to the Theater itself.
In the same year, 2025, Morgenstern Antiquariat in Berlin hosts a preview of Die Kretische Ziege (The Cretan Goat), a description of the crossing of Crete via the E4 long-distance hiking trail.
Years of Poetry
Since 1993 Giovanna developed her individual concept for theatre and poetry seminars (www.poeticwriting.net) and published her own poems.
2018 Poetry Sculptures – Neukirchen is a timid fawn
A bicycle tour from Berlin to Neukirchen for the Art Symposium, 30.8. – 9.9.2018 – AtelierHaus, Neukirchen in the Bavarian Forest
In 2019, the bilingual poetry collection Intime Lieder/Canti Intimi (German/Italian) is published.
This is followed in 2023 by another poetry collection, this time in German, Lieder der Blüten, Lieder des Dunkeln (Songs of Flowers, Songs of the Dark), and in
2024 by a series of related readings from Berlin to Regensburg and Bolzano to Rome.