Anna Valeska Pohl
(born in Regensburg, Bavaria)
Founder & artistic director of bambule.babys. An artist working at the intersection of performance, film, and theory.
Founder & artistic director of bambule.babys. An artist working at the intersection of performance, film, and theory.
Named one of Bavaria’s top emerging artists (PULS, Bayerischer Rundfunk), Anna's work explores taboo subjects, feminist mythologies, and the aesthetics of resistance. Her work has been shown across Europe, North America and Asia.
Alongside her own practice, she collaborates with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra, including a 2023 artist residency in Mexico City. Her training includes Self-Generated Theatre at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC and a Master’s in Philosophy from LMU Munich.
Beyond her artistic work, Anna teaches philosophy, feminist filmmaking, performance and acting. She facilitates creative processes with young queer people and sees pedagogy as a space for radical imagination.
She lives in Berlin.
Alongside her own practice, she collaborates with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra, including a 2023 artist residency in Mexico City. Her training includes Self-Generated Theatre at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC and a Master’s in Philosophy from LMU Munich.
Beyond her artistic work, Anna teaches philosophy, feminist filmmaking, performance and acting. She facilitates creative processes with young queer people and sees pedagogy as a space for radical imagination.
She lives in Berlin.
Michael Pöpperl
(born in Straubing, Bavaria)
Co-founder, managing director, and producer at bambule.babys.
(born in Straubing, Bavaria)
Co-founder, managing director, and producer at bambule.babys.
A self-taught performer from the Bavarian hinterland, Michael brings a raw, hands-on spirit to the collective — on and off stage.
He focuses on dark, psychological roles and currently performs as Jesus in my home is not my home. As producer, he oversees bambule.babys' film work.
He focuses on dark, psychological roles and currently performs as Jesus in my home is not my home. As producer, he oversees bambule.babys' film work.
Michael has collaborated with Bavarian writer-director Joseph Berlinger, and the performance collective SIGNA, including Wir Hunde / Us Dogs
(Wiener Festwochen 2016), awarded the Nestroypreis for “Special Prize” (Ensemble).
He lives in Berlin.
He lives in Berlin.
Collaborators & associated members
We work with international artists, performers, filmmakers and punks,
including Adriano Agostinacchio
(Berlin/IT),
Carmen Lafran
(Berlin/IT), Cesár Echeverría Barojas
(Mexico City),
Federico Tello
(Mexico City), Luke Jordan
(London), Lum Alvarez
(Mexico City), Olek Brodowicz
(Berlin/POL/NLD),
Paloma Medaglia
(Mexico City), Rachel M. Somerville
(Berlin/Malta), Roope Luokkamäki
(Berlin/FIN),
SwearxxxWords
(Los Angeles),
Timna Tomisa
(Berlin/Zagreb/Amsterdam)
and Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin
Anna Valeska Pohl, the creative mind behind bambule.babys, photo by Nuno Roque
Michael Pöpperl during a shooting break at the Sister Games
film set, photo by Olek Brodowicz