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Petra Tabarelli

Archivist • Playwright • Cultural Historian

Petra Tabarelli is a German archivist, cultural historian and emerging playwright, writing at the intersection of history, atmosphere and theatre.

Her work is shaped by a long-standing interest in English cultural memory, the rural imagination, and the ways both continue to echo through the twentieth century and the present. 

She is developing her playwriting practice through online short courses at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Currently she is developing a historically rooted play set in 1825 about female self-determination and the line between escapism and freedom as a lived choice.
Alongside it, she is working on a stage adaptation of her biography of Simon Rosenberger, a well-known football refereeing pioneer of the 1920s whose legacy was entirely erased from public memory in the wake of German Nazism, institutional neglect, post-war silence, and personal animosity.

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