Friederike Felbeck
"Einheit in der Vielfalt": transnationaler und interkultureller
Austausch im zeitgenössischen europäischen Theater (Arbeitstitel)
Friederike Felbeck is an internationally-active director and writer. She
was a fellow at the international research centre "Interweaving Performance
Cultures" of the Freie Universität Berlin under the guidance
of Prof. Erika Fischer-Lichte. She obtained a postdoctoral degree in "Modernizing
German-language Training Processes for Acting" at the University
of Hamburg, and regularly contributes to specialized journals, among others
Theater der Zeit (Berlin) and Didaskalia (Wroclaw). Additional contributions
in print are currently in preparation. For the Goethe Institute she co-curated
the 3rd German-Chinese Theatre Forum in Chongquing (2011). She is a member
of the International Theatre Institute (ITI).
Her work as an independent director, taking her to numerous theatres inland
and abroad, led to productions at the Theater an der Ruhr (2000 to 2006),
the Oberhausen Theater and Bielefeld Theater (both 2002), the Deutsches
Theater Almaty in the Republic of Kazakhstan (2004), the National Theater
of Damascus in Syria (2005), and the Republic of Singapore (2011). Her
production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" was nominated for
Cologne's 2003 Theater Prize. In addition, she works regularly on projects
in the area of socioculture and the visual arts: for the Küppersmühle
Museum in Duisburg ("Ich und Du", 2002) and twice for the Wiesbaden
Museum ("Eva Hesse, Untitled" and "Meine liebe Galka! -
Ein Abend für Alexij von Jawlensky", 2002 and 2004). In cooperation
with the Federal Association of German Architects, productions in urban
spaces were created in Düsseldorf and Cologne ("Boulevard der
Träume" and "Via Sacra", 2003 and 2004).
She received special mention for her production of "Antigone"
on former estate of the Nazi-Ordensburg Vogelsang in the Eifel National
Park, as well as for the open air performance of "Everyman"
on the historic Gräfrather marketplace in Solingen, staged with German
and Senegalese actors. Likewise launched in 2008 was the international
performance project "Government Poetry", based on the texts
of the UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity
of cultural expression.
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