Dora Cheng has a CV with big names. She studied dramatic writing at Shanghai Theatre Academy and earned her master’s degree in visual language of performance in England at Wimbledon College of Art. Her first play, „Erupted,“ was picked as the first production for the Shanghai Playhouse’s New Writing program. But when asked what stages in her CV were particularly important to her, she talked about her work as a waitress and museum guide when she first lived in Germany in 2012. Back then, she learned the language from scratch and took a break from her artistic life. „With the distance, a whole new relationship developed between me, the theater and the language.“