Max Brands |
Max Brands studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and Performance Dramaturgy in Zagreb. Together with Ruhrorter he works documental and site-specifically on histories of migration in ruhr area.
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Mudar Alhaggi |
Mudar Alhaggi (*1981) studied theatre studies at The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damaskus. Alhaggi works as an author and dramaturge, he writes for the radio and TV, pens scripts and leads writing workshops for refugees. He staged “Footfalls” by Samuel Beckett and the production “One Thousand and One Tents”, which was developed in a workshop with refugees in Lebanon. In 2013 the production “Now T-Here“, in which he was involved as author and director (in collaboration with Stella Cristofolini) was presented in Oberhausen and Berlin. Since 2015 he manages “Future Stages. A Creative Programme for Emerging Syrian Writers” in Lebanon together with Erik Altorfer. In 2015 and 2016 he developed “41 Stunden” with Kopp / Nauer / Praxmarer / Vittinghoff, a coproduction with Schlachthaus Theater Bern. With Erik Altorfer, he presented another work with adolescent refugees and young people from Graz at Schauspielhaus Graz. Since 2017 he is artistic director of Collective Ma’louba.
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Writing, Dramaturgy |
Berlin |
Nina de la Chevallerie |
Nina de la Chevallerie, production manager and producer, founded together with Luise Rist the boat people projekt in Göttingen as a free theatre in 2009. Since then she has directed and produced acting and socio-cultural projects together with various artists.
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Direction, Production management, Production |
Göttingen |
Nora Amin |
Nora Amin is a fellow of the centre for theatre of the oppressed/Rio de Janeiro, 2003. Alumni of the Vilar Institute for Arts Management/ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (USA, 2004), Cultural Leadership in the Performing Arts (British Council, 2009), Clore Leadership diploma (UK, 2009), S. Fischer guest professor at the general and comparative literature institute (FU, 2004–2005), guest lecturer (Acting) at the theatre department of Mount Holyoke College (USA, 2005), Founder of The National Egyptian Project for Theatre of the Oppressed and its Arab network (2011 to date), Former fellow of the Academy of the Arts of the World (Cologne, 2015), former fellow of the International Research Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures (FU, 2015–2016, and 2017: "Theatre and Political Transformation"), Valeska-Gert guest professor for dance science in cooperation with DAAD and AdK (FU, summer semester 2018: "Performing Trauma"). As a writer she published four collections of short stories and four novels, besides an audio book of poetry. In 2000 she founded Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Cairo to experiment with new forms of physical expression and to voice the unspoken issues of women and of socio-cultural repression. She directed and produced 37 theatre, dance and music productions before moving to Berlin in 2015. Her work is set between the areas of Literature, theatre/dance and feminism, and is all linked by a drive of socio-political activism where the artist takes the role of a rebel against the traditions of patriarchy, authority, sexism and racism. Her most important works are the first book on human rights and theatre: The Art of Claiming our Right, and a methodological book on storytelling as a medium of trauma healing, Theatre and Change: from the internal to the external (inspired by a workshop with Sudanese female survivors of the civil war).
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Writing, Performance, Choreography, Theatre direction, Education |
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Nora Haakh |
While studying Middle Eastern Studies, Politics and History in Berlin, Paris, Istanbul and Cairo, Nora Haakh started working in theatre, assisting, among others, theatre artists such as Yael Ronen (“Dritte Generation”, Schaubühne), Kai Tuchmann (“10 Stories about war”, Goethe Institut Iraq) or Nurkan Erpulat/Jens Hillje (“Crazy Blood”, Ballhaus Naunynstraße). From 2012 to 2015 she worked as a dramaturg at Berlin’s postmigrant theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße mainly on New Writing, devised plays, documentary theatre and international festivals. As a director herself, she has staged texts by Mohammad Al-Attar and Wasim Ghrioui. Nora Haakh is currently pursuing a phd on Arabic Theatre on the way to and in Germany at BGSMCS, Freie Universität Berlin.
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Research, Dramaturgy, Direction, Grafic Recording |
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Omar Mohamad |
Omar Mohamad (* 1989) studied in Aleppo Business Administration and worked in the industrial city of Aleppo Sheikh Najjar in the field of rationalizing environmental awareness, promoting investment and fair stimulation. In 2015 he fled Syria to Germany. Since then he has been involved on a voluntary basis in various projects at the Silent University Ruhr, the theater project RUHRORTER or FreeUniversity Oberhausen as well as in his own intercultural projects, for example poetry slams in various languages. He has just completed his training as an event manager in the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and started his master's degree in economics at the FernUniversität in Hagen. From the 2020/21 season he will be responsible for PR and audience development in the Ma’louba Collective.
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PR, Audience Develpment |
Mülheim an der Ruhr |
Özlem Canyürek |
Özlem Canyürek is a cultural policy, theatre and migration researcher. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hildesheim, Department of Cultural Policy. Her dissertation engages itself with the task and role of the cultural policy on the transformation of the German theatre system that mirrors the immigrant character of the country.
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Research, Education |
Berlin |
Rania Mleihi |
Rania Mleihi (* 1983) studied Arabic literature at Damascus University and dramatic Studies at the Higher institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. In 2003 she worked as a director and dramatist at the National Theater Damascus. In 2008, she founded her theater ensemble in Damascus and took part in various theater festivals in many countries, eg. Such as the Edinburgh Festival, the Luminato Festival in Toronto and in Chicago. In 2009 Rania Mleihi was invited as a scholarship holder of the International Forum to the Theatertreffen Berlin. In 2016 she worked as Artistic Director and dramaturge of the Open Border Ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele. From 2017 to 2019 she was dramaturge at Schauspiel Hannover. Since 2019 Rania Mleihi is a member of the Theater Advisory Council of Lower Saxony. From the season 2019/20 she is the dramaturge of the Collective Ma’louba.
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Dramaturgy, PR |
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Reimar de la Chevallerie |
Reimar de la Chevallerie, musician, video artist, performer, director, has been a member of the boat people project since 2012 and also works as an artist with other independent groups, e.g. Firma für Zwischenbereiche/ Basel or Theater Treibkraft in Hamm.
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Music, Video art, Performance, Direction |
Göttingen |
Ruba Totah |
Ruba Totah is a PhD candidate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research interests include Social Anthropology, Transnationalism, and Theatre Studies. Her current research is on the transnational cultural experiences of artists in Europe: Artists coming from Syria. In 2013, she finished her Master's degree in Gender and Development from Birzeit University BZU- Palestine focusing on Performing Art and Social Change; view on Religiosity, Class, and Sexuality. She accumulated ten years of experience as a cultural manager of civil society organizations working in the field of Culture. She has published works related to artists' homemaking strategies in Borderlands and in Creative processes within the European theatre scenes.
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Research |
Mainz |