Susanne Valerie Granzer is an actress and a professor emeritus of acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (mdw). Alongside her acting career (Vienna, Basel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin), she was awarded a PhD in Philosophy in 1995 (University of Vienna). From 2021 to 2025, she taught aesthetics as ethics at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Her research focuses on the actor on stage and performance philosophy. She is currently a key researcher in an international research project led by Arno Böhler at the Artistic Research Centre mdw, Arts in Philosophy : Philosophy in the Arts, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI 10.55776/AR822].