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Andrea Hensel
Das freie Theater im postsozialistischen Europa (Arbeitstitel)
Andrea Hensel, born 1987 in Lörrach, is currently earning a Master's
degree in theatre sciences at the University of Leipzig. Since 2008 she
is an associate of the university's Institute for Theatre Sciences. The
main focus of her research concerns the relationship of new forms of production
and theatre-aesthetical creativity to (inter)media qualities in theatre
and film of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the relationship to
historiography and artistic practice in the study of history.
Since 2010, Andrea Hensel conducts courses on topics such as: "Lars
von Trier Theatre. Film. History." (WS 2010/2011), "Narrating
Re-Enacting History. Intermedia Correspondences" (SS 2011), and "Metamorphosia.
An Excursive Seminar in Structural Changes in 'Eastern European' Theatre"
(SS 2012).
Likewise since 2010, Andrea Hensel is an active member of the "Dramaturgy
Forum" of the theatre biennial "New Plays from Europe".
In this framework, she hosts workshops on: "Theater Work in Europe
or Encountering the Foreign" (2010) and "Structural Changes
in 'Eastern European Theatre'. Political, Cultural, and Social Awakenings
and Radical Change in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria" (2012).
She conceived the scenic reading "Encounters. Locations - Speaking
- Exorcizing" performed in collaboration with the Community Centre
of the Jewish Community of Leipzig at the Ariowitsch House in 2011, as
well as in conjunction with the 2012 Mülheim Theater Days' program.
In cooperation with the Borussia Olsztyn Foundation and Stefan Jaracz
Theater's Acting School, she is currently developing the German-Polish
transcultural theatre project "Geschichte Aufführen - Wystawia?
Histori? - Re-Enacting History".
After obtaining her Master's degree, Hensel will pursue a PhD at the Institute
of Theatre Sciences of the University of Leipzig.
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