Anton Kurt Krause was born in Magdeburg in 1986. In 2004 he founded, among others, the theater festival Improv(is)e your life, was assistant director at the Theater der Altmark for one year and studied directing under Luk Perceval at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg from 2008 to 2011.
From 2011 to 2014 Anton Kurt Krause was assistant director at the Thalia Theater, where he worked with Jan Bosse, Stefan Pucher, Nicolas Stemann and Jette Steckel, among others.
In addition to his own work at the Thalia Theater, such as the monologue series Schöner Scheitern at the Nachtasyl, Anton Kurt Krause brought the pilot episode of the Thalia soap Rennbahn der Leidenschaft to the stage and also directed the classroom play that premiered during the Lessingtage 2014.
Together with the theater collective machina eX and Theater Leipzig, he developed a livepoint and click adventure.
He lives in Berlin and his work has been seen in Leipzig, Cali (Colombia), Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin. Since 2018 he is studying in the master play & object at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin.