Artistic director of the City Theatre in Berne and stage director since 1991.

Eike Gramss attended the grammar school in Bremen, studied at the State Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg where he trained as an actor.

From 1985 to 1991 he was artistic director general at the theatres in Krefeld / Mönchengladbach; he directed operas and plays at the theatres in Augsburg, Darmstadt, Bonn, Basle, Graz, Berne, Karlsruhe, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Hanover State Opera, Leipzig Opera, the English National Opera London, at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Florence, at the Semperoper in Dresden, Magaron Athens and elsewhere.