Theater der Welt 2008

International Symposia

Komm! Ins Offene (”Come! Come to the unconfined…”) - world theatre in Halle (23rd and 24th June 2008, Kulturinsel Halle)
Conception: Jörg Wiesel, in co-operation with the Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung of the Freie Universität Berlin (Gabriele Brandstetter) about Hölderlin’s poetics, Halle’s cultural-historical prominence in the 18th century in the context of the European enlightenment and about productions of the festival and their cultural background. With orators of the Universities of Berlin, Santa Cruz, Basel, Leipzig, Bochum , Amsterdam and others.

Bewegende Zukunft/Mobility Visions
The ITI organises a symposium to the topic “Supervision and Public Room” with media artists and security experts among others.

Co-operations

Theater der Welt 2008 is on the teaching curriculum of the Fachhochschule Merseburg about two semesters. Master students of the professor Bettina Brandi (supported by Sylvia Pendzik) develop cultural, media and educational projects which creatively accompany and investigate the festival for nine month.
The study course “fashion” of the Hochschule für Kunst und Design “Burg Giebichenstein” (Prof. Joachim Schielicke and Thomas Greis) develops own creations and impressions of the strange cultures which are united by Theater der Welt. The theme is “Procession”. By showing their works during the prelude, the 150 students of different age-groups accompany the percussion groups of the Werkstatt der Kulturen. The media class of the Burg Giebichensten (Prof. Ute Hörner and Prof. Dieter Hofmann) participates together with the Institut für Theaterwissenschaften of the Universität Leipzig (Dr. Martina Bako) in the ITI project “escalators”. This work in progress is also accompanied by the Institut für Medienkommunikation of the Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Excursions, seminars and lectures are organised by et al.:

Freie Universität Berlin (conception Jörg Wiesel), Universität Leipzig (conception Patrick Primavesi, Christine Boy), University of Hertfordshire (supervision Prof. Benedict Anderson); Antenne culturelle de Saxe-Anhalt (lecturer by sociologist Dominique Pasquier, Paris: “Aller au théâtre: une activité sociale?”, 25th June 2008, 5 pm.); Bayerische Theaterakademie (supervision C. Bernd Sucher); Ruhr-Universität Bochum (supervision Christina Schmidt); Universität der Künste Berlin (supervision Sabine Herken); Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (supervision Prof. Dr. Birgit Wiens); Theaterakademie Hamburg / Hochschule für Musik und Theater (supervision Andrea Tietz); Workshop: Lina Saneh (Beirut).