Susanne Stahl has been Professor of Editorial Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam since the winter semester 2023/24. In the summer semester of 2022 and winter semester of 2022/23, she was a substitute professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Together with Prof. Christina Poth and Constanze Hein, she is the initiator and organiser of the interdisciplinary symposium "Further Reading", which takes place annually at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam with international guests. The symposium deals with the future of reading and the design of texts.
She studied Visual Communication (MA) at the Royal College of Art in London and Integrated Design (Diploma) at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. She completed a semester abroad at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology in Bangkok and received a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Main fields of activity (research, teaching)
She has been a member of the board since 2022 and co-president of 100 Besten Plakate e. V. since 2024. Susanne is a regular member of the jury for the German National Academic Foundation and was chair of the design jury for 100 Besten Plakate e. V. in 2022.
She is a designer and, together with Tobias Röttger, founded the Stahl R design studio in Berlin, which is responsible for the corporate design of the 10th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, the inclusive RambaZamba Theatre, the Thomas Schulte Gallery and the Hamburg cultural association Imagine the City, among others. Stahl R has won international design awards, including 100 Best Posters, TDC Tokyo Award, ADC Award, European Design Award, Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher (shortlist), and has been published extensively.
From 2007 to 2009, she was a designer at the Fons Hickmann m23 design studio and in 2010 at IDEO London. From 2011 to 2015, she was an artistic assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts and gave lectures and taught nationally and internationally, e.g. at the University of Art and Design Halle, the University of the Arts Bremen, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
