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Hurtzig, Hannah
From 1985 till 1990 Hannah Hurtzig worked as artistic director of Kampnagelfabrik in Hamburg. In 1996 she was programming director of the international festival THEATER DER WELT in Dresden, and in 1998 part of the artistic direction of the BONNER BIENALE, a European festival of contemporary drama. In 1999 she took on the conception and direction of the “International Theater Academy Ruhr. A Meeting Point of Theatre, Field Research and Philosophy on a Post-Industrial Site” in Bochum. From 2000 till 2003 she worked as dramaturge at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. 2003-2005 she was the curator of the project ErsatzStadt (SubstituteCity), an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
Hannah Hurtzig lives in Berlin and works as a freelance dramaturge, curator, and festival organizer.
INSTALLATION PROJECTS:
- several installation projects on the thematics and metaphor of the library and archive, e.g. Department for Temporary Memory, a media installation on the subject of the memory in art. Together with Anselm Franke, Hamburger Kammerspiele (2000)
- Information Retrieval - Dialogues on Archiving. Public art installation, British Museum, King's Library, London International Festival of Theatre (2001)
- The Refugee: Services Rendered to Undesirables. Mobile Academy/ErsatzStadt/Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2002)
- Rolling-Road-Show, a mobile container theatre. A joint project with the set designer Bert Neumann, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2000/2001)
- Kiosk for Useful Knowledge. The mobile research unit of the ErsatzStadt (2003/2004)
- Mobile Academy at the Hebbel am Ufer/Akademie der Künste in Berlin, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (September 2004)
- Black Market of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge. The Hallucinated Community College of the Mobile Academy, Kunstverein Hamburg (April 2005)
- Black Market of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge. The Hallucinated Community College of the Mobile Academy with 100 experts from Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer (May 2005)
SELECTED DRAMATURGICAL ACTIVITIES:
- Du - Die Stadt (You - The City). An urban play in 15 sequences for one spectator. Fiona Templeton, New York, Munich 1991
- Feel time, Les Levine, New York. Billboard Art, Lenbachhaus, Munich 1992
- Going Bye Byes. Stephen Taylor Woodrow, Orangerie Englischer Garten, Munich 1992
- Bloomsday. Eighteen hour dramatic reading of James Joyce's “Ulysses”, Hamburg (16 June, 1988), Munich (16 June, 1991)
- The Passions of Natasha, Nokiko, Nicola, Nanette and Norma. Barbara Bloom/Shelley Hirsch, Bavarian Staatsschauspiel, Vienna Festival Weeks, Hebbel-Theater Berlin (1993)
- A Voyeur is a Witness is a Customer. A Trilogy on the Subject of the Audience. Jerzy Kalina, Warsaw, David Maayan, Israel, Dirk Groeneveld, Amsterdam, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1994)
- I LAB U - A Laboratory for the Research of Memory. Akko Theater Centre, Israel, David Mayaan, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1994), and the Vienna Festival Weeks (1995)
- Memory Arena. A Journey into the Archive. Arnold Dreyblatt/Fred Pommerehn, Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg (1995)
- Lovepangs. heavygirlslighten. Congress at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2001)
- The Lady is not to be Burned. Michael Simon, Dramatic Sketches, Dokumenta X, Kassel (1998)
- Ye Yan. The Night Banquet. Chen Shi Zheng/Guo Wenjing, Festival d'Automne, Paris, Lincoln Center, New York, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin (2001).
PUBLICATIONS:
Various features and radio plays for the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company), journalism, interviews, etc. for “Theater heute” and “Theaterschrift”;
Editor: Imitation of Life. Bert Neumann: Bühnenbilder, Theater der Zeit Verlag, 2001.
TEACHING POSITIONS:
DASARTS Advanced Research for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam,
Endowed Professor at the Ruhr-University in Bochum in the department of Theatre Studies (1999),
University of Hamburg in the Department of Literary Studies (2000).
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