Bettina Stöß was born in Rodalben/Pfalz, Germany in 1971. She has worked as a freelance photographer since 1993, focussing particularly on dance and theatre photography. She has worked as a free assistant with Andrew Wakeford (BFF) in Saarbrücken and Lois Greenfield in New York.
Since the beginning of the nineties, she has followed choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Birgit Scherzer, Stefan Thoss, Mario Schröder, Heinz Spoerli, Marguerite Donlon, Jacopo Godani, Rui Horta, Jean Renshaw and many others. Apart from her photographic work, she has founded the agency STAGE PICTURE, an agency for theatre photography and artistic design, in 1998 and works within this agency for the following theatres: Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Ballet of the Aalto Theater Essen, Ballet of the Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Dortmund, Ballet of the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater der Stadt Nürnberg, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Lübeck, Theater Hagen and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
In addition to this journalistic work, she has committed herself to the portraiture of dancers. In 1999, the book of plates “Birgit Scherzer – Eine Retrospektive” was published. The Weingarten Verlag, a known German publishing house, regularly brings out calendars with her photographs and various of her pictures have been published on postcards. Moreover, one of her pictures has been chosen for “Our beautiful children”, the latest publication of M.I.L.K..