Marie Träger

*born 1985 in Bochum
Designer | Lecturer | Lecturer | Workshops & Talks

Marie Träger is passionate about spatial design and accompanies and counsels companies and institutions in the context of spatial transformation processes. Her work focuses on exhibition design and scenography, as well as design concepts for working environments and interfaces between physical space and virtual reality.

Marie Träger teaches her methodology in academic lectures and non-academic talks and prepares Master's students for the wild life of design as a lecturer. She teaches Module 07 of the Scenographic Design and Communication Master's program.

Together with the Equal Opportunities Officers at Fachhochschule Dortmund, she launched the design talk format REAL TALK in 2025. As an alumna of the Common Purpose Leadership Program and member of the DDC, Marie Träger is involved in teaching, female leadership and design education.

VITA

Until today (since 2020)
Lecturer at Fachhochschule Dortmund
Master | Scenography and Communication

Until today (since 2012)
Design studio PRINZTRÄGER(Opens in a new tab) , Bochum
Counseling and consulting | Concept and design

2016 - 2017
Program "Common Purpose | lead with a difference"

2012
Foundation of design studio PRINZTRÄGER

2008 (- 2017)
Freelance design
Deck5 - industrial design + communication | Bande für Gestaltung and many more.

2012
Studio scholarship "Artist in Residence"

2005 - 2011
Studied communication design
Object and spatial design | Fachhochschule Dortmund

Teaching and lectures (selection)
Fachhochschule Dortmund
Lower Rhine University of Applied Sciences
Rhine Waal University of Applied Sciences
Ruhr University Bochum

Lectures and talks (selection)
Female Founders
RuhrSummit
Creative Stage

Networks & jury work (selection)
Allianz deutscher Designer (AGD) e.V.
Common Purpose Germany | Lead with a difference Leadership program
German Design Club e.V. / DDC
Female Founders Ruhr Network
Jury member / mentor: Innovation Call Business Metropole Ruhr
Jury member: Podest, Künstlerhaus Dortmund