Dagna Litzenberger Vinet was born in Oakland (USA) in 1987 and grew up in France, Germany and Switzerland. After studying philosophy at the Sorbonne, she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2010-2013. During her studies she played Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade (Director: Peter Kleinert) at the Schaubühne in Berlin. For 2011/12 she received a scholarship and advancement prize from the Migros Culture Percentage programme, and in 2012 she received the Armin-Ziegler-Stiftung scholarship.
Her first engagement took her to the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 2013 to 2017, where she was in Arthur Miller’s Hexenjagd (The Crucible, director: Jan Bosse) and Die zehn Gebote adapted from Krzysztof Kieślowski (director: Karin Henkel). She appeared at the Berliner Theatertreffen festival in 2018 as Kassandra in BEUTE FRAUEN KRIEG (director: Karin Henkel) and at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2019 as Yulia Filippovna in Maxim Gorky’s Sommergäste, in a production directed by Evgeny Titov.
Litzenberger Vinet has also been working in film and television since 2017, including taking on the lead role in the television film Fluss des Lebens ‒ Yukon (director: Mia Spengler) for ZDF. She also just finished shooting a lead, Kerstin, in Das Mädchen und die Spinne (director: Ramon Zürcher).
She appears on the Maxim Gorki Theatre’s stage inDIE VERLOBUNG IN ST. DOMINGO – EIN WIDERSPRUCH by Necati Öziri against Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Sebastian Nübling.
