Dorte Lena Eilers was born in Bremen in 1978 and has been an editor at the magazine Theater der Zeit since 2007. After studying music, biology and politics in Osnabrück and Kingston upon Hull, UK, she undertook a traineeship at the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung as well as the Akademie der Publizistik in Hamburg. Eilers is associate editor of the TdZ workbooks Theater Der Welt (2010), Dimiter Gotscheff. Dunkel das uns blendet (2013) and Castorf (2016) as well as Die neue Freiheit. Perspektiven des bulgarischen Theaters (2011).