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As Director of the Dortmund Academy, Marcus Lobbes is in high demand locally, nationally, and internationally for lectures and panel discussions; he is particularly committed to fostering and promoting a wide variety of networks in the performing arts, as well as communicating artistic research — in dialogue with the latest technologies — to theater and educational institutions, policymakers, and the general public.
He is also active on numerous committees, boards of trustees, and juries; for example, since 2024 he has served as vice president of the German Academy of Performing Arts and as a member of the board of trustees of the Performing Arts Fund.
Since 1995, he has worked as a director, set designer, and writer in musical and spoken theater. His focus is on uncompromisingly contemporary adaptations of classics as well as numerous world premieres and first performances at many renowned theaters across Germany in over 80 productions to date, including at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Frankfurt Opera, the Hamburg Opera, the National Theater Mannheim, the State Theaters in Kassel, Mainz, Saarbrücken, Darmstadt, and Braunschweig, the Schauspiel Dortmund, the Theater Freiburg, and the Wuppertaler Bühnen.
His artistic signature is characterized by innovative forms of collective work with ensembles and his close collaboration with contemporary writers and composers. In addition to numerous invitations and awards, his approach is also finding its way into the training of young artists:
Since 2014, he has been invited as a guest lecturer and speaker to the Academy of Performing Arts in Ludwigsburg, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the University of Rostock, the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, the Zurich University of the Arts, the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf, and, since 2016, annually to the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.