Adem Köstereli |
Adem Köstereli (*1986 in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr) studied economics and works full-time in the business sector in a leading position. He has been associated with the Theater an der Ruhr for over 15 years. He founded RUHRORTER in 2012 and has been managing and directing the group ever since.
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Direction |
Mülheim an der Ruhr |
Amal Omran |
Amal Omran (*1967) is regarded one of the most accomplished actresses in the Arabic world. She graduated from HIDA in Damaskus in 1989 and is highly demanded in theatre as well as TV and Film. She worked with Ariane Mnoushkine from 2004 to 2006, i.a. on the play „Gilgamish“. Furthermore did she work with Kuwaiti- English director Sulayman al Bassam and performed in “Richard III – an Arab Tragedy“ (2007) and “The Speake’s Progress“ (2011), which were presented at several renowned Arabic speaking festivals as well as at Holland Festival, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in New York, Boston and Tokyo. She worked with English director Tim Supple in the project “One Thousand and One Nights“, which was presented at Edinburgh Festival a.o. In 2014 her Mono±drama “Hak“ premiered at Kumbaraci 50- Theater in Istanbul. Her latest work includes “While I was waiting“ by Mohammad Alattar, directed by Omar Abusaada, which premiered at kunstenfestival des arts Brussels and gave guest performances at several international festivals.
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Acting, Direction |
Mülheim an der Ruhr |
Ann-Kathrin Allekotte |
Ann-Kathrin Allekotte is a research assistant at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She studied media and cultural studies and media culture analysis at HHU, the University of California, Davis, USA and the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. Ann-Kathrin Allekotte has been affiliated with the Theater an der Ruhr since 2011, at first as part of the Junge Theater and since 2018 with RUHRORTER, where she is responsible for PR and networking. Since 2019 she has also been responsible for network coordination in the PostHeimat network.
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Research, Organisation |
Mülheim an der Ruhr |
Anne Schulz |
Anne Schulz holds a diploma in cultural studies and aesthetic practice, University of Hildesheim and worked as a production manager for Rimini Protokoll, Turbo Pascal and andcompany&Co. from 2006 to 2010. Schulz curated X Apartments, commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, in São Paulo (2009), Warschau (2010) and Mannheim (2011) and worked interdisciplinary between dramaturgy, mediation and audience development for the festivals Foreign Affairs in Berlin (2012), Impulse in NRW (2013) and Theater der Welt in Mannheim (2014). Anne Schulz has been responsible for Kammer 4 You at Münchner Kammerspiele since season 15/16 with a focus on participation and diversity.
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Munich |
Birte Müchler |
Birte Müchler studied literature and philosophy in Paderborn, Gothenburg and Göttingen. Since 2016 she has been part of the seven-person free theatre boat people project. There she designs and directs theatre pedagogical and socio-cultural projects, and in addition to public relations work, she also takes on production management for Göttingen and international theatre productions and co-productions.
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Christopher Balme |
Christopher Balme currently holds the chair in Theatre Studies at the University of Munich. He was born and educated in New Zealand where he graduated from the University of Otago. He has lived and worked in Germany since 1985 with positions at the universities of Würzburg, Munich and Mainz. He held the chair in theatre studies at the University of Amsterdam and was dean of the Faculty of History and Art at the University of Munich.
Christopher Balme is past-president of the German Society for Theatre Research and is president of the IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research). He was Senior Editor of Theatre Research International and currently edits the journal Forum Modernes Theater.
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Munich |
Christopher-Fares Köhler |
Christopher-Fares Köhler, born 1987 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Raised in Germany and Jordan. He studied Theater Studies at Leipzig University and at the Free University of Berlin. In the season 2017/18 he was Assistant Dramaturg and Dramaturg at the Münchner Kammerspiele, for Benjamin von Blomberg. From 2018 until Summer 202o he is a Dramaturg at the Maxim Gorki Theater. Since 2014 he works as a Translator, mainly translating plays and texts from Arabic to German.
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Dramaturgy |
Berlin |
Ekaterina Trachsel |
Ekaterina Trachsel studied Scenic Arts (BA) and Staging Arts and Media (MA) at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2017 she has been working there as a research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture. She is doing her doctorate under Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke on the montage and demontage as dramaturgical strategies in contemporary theatre. In addition to teaching and research, she works as a freelance theatre maker within the theatre collective VOLL:MILCH and the interdisciplinary artists' collective MONSTER CONTROL DISTRICT.
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Research, Education |
Hildesheim, Berlin |
Franziska Götzen |
2014-2017: apprenticeship in portrait photography in Düsseldorf
since 2015: member of the RUHRORTER collective as a photographer
since 2018: studying BA Photography at Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen
since 2018: engagement as production photographer at Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim/Ruhr
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Photography |
Mülheim an der Ruhr |
Gabriela Vasileva |
Gabriela Vasileva is part of the team of Hajusom e.V. – a transcultural centre and theater collective based in Hamburg. She is also a founding and board member of the project femrep e.V., a network providing an environment and framework for feminist discourse. Femrep aims to create a continuous symbolic and temporary physical safe-space, in which solidarity is a main goal and a mandatory condition.
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Hamburg |