Artistic W3 Professorship (f/m/d) in Directing to be filled.
The Directing program at the HfMDK Frankfurt is looking for two personalities who are well connected in the theater scene to take responsibility as a team for Frankfurt's directing education. Link to the advertisement:
https://bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/35f2ac59363b4eca566f58aa7771a15b587a3b4f0?ref=homepage
HTA lectures 2023
WRITING AS EXPERIMENT:
The HTA lecture series in the summer semester of 2023 explores writing as an experiment. It blurs the boundaries between art and theory, seeking a different relationship between concepts and existence. Artists and theorists who view writing as an embodied practice are invited to discuss the transformative power of writing and its connection to life experiences. The focus is on delicate texts that reflect the self-destabilizing nature of human subjects. The lecture of Jereon Peeters (And then it got legs: Dramaturgies of (not) writing) will be held in english.
program:
May 25, 2023, 18.30h, Studio MA CoDE (Eschersheimer Landstr. 54, Frankfurt/M.)
Annika Haas: Through the Body. Hélène Cixous' Philosophy and Writing.
To write with and through the body - this is what the essay "The Laughter of Medusa" (1975) by the writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous calls for. But how can such writing be realized? Is it governed by a particular method, or is not all writing a physical process? And how does a mode of writing become philosophy? Guided by these questions, the lecture invites a joint consideration of poetic, visual, and acoustic inscriptions of the body as well as (re)stagings of writing in Cixous.
Annika Haas is a media theorist. She researches and teaches at the Institute for the History and Theory of Design at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she will graduate in 2022 with the thesis "Avant-Theory. Hélène Cixous' écriture du corps" for her PhD.
https://visuellekultur.udk-berlin.de/personen/annika-haas
June 1, 18.30h, Studio MA CoDE (Eschersheimer Landstr. 54, Frankfurt/M.)
Senthuran Varatharajah: A Text is a God in Ruins.
Senthuran Varatharajah formulates the future of criticism as a question of form and pleads for an educated sense of poetic criticism, even more for an unreserved willingness to listen carefully to how a text will have said something to us. It is a criticism whose task will be to stand by the side of form in a blending of literature and theory, to understand each text as a body of text, to know in it about body-letters and soul-letters, and to understand language as a means of translating into silence, - committed to the incomprehensibility of words.
Senthuran Varatharajah, born in 1984 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, is a writer, philosopher, and theologian. In 2016, his first novel "Before the Increase of Signs" was published by S. Fischer Verlag; his second novel "Red (Hunger)" was published in 2022, also by S. Fischer. Varatharajah's novels have won many awards. He is a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Varatharajah lives in Berlin.
June 15, 18.30h, Studio MA CoDE (Eschersheimer Landstr. 54, Frankfurt/M.)
Krassimira Kruschkova: Ineinander: Shown and Told (Meg Stuart/Tim Etchells)
Danced and spoken stories comment on and contaminate each other in the performance duet Shown and Told (2016) by Meg Stuart and Tim Etchells. What is shown and told here, ironically melancholy, are pointedly undecided body and speech gestures that exhibit undecidability itself, perhaps. Meg's and Tim's stories come together by escaping any unambiguity, they become together only in their mutual con-fusion: a becoming together as uneasy going rather than anything goes, a Hindurc
- Juni, 18.30h, Studio MA CoDE (Eschersheimer Landstr. 54, Frankfurt/M.)
Jereon Peeters: And then it got legs: Dramaturgies of (not) writing
How do you set up conditions for the work to come about? How do you create a shared ground for exploring the unfamiliar in pursuit of making sense? These questions are at the heart of And then it got legs: Notes on dance dramaturgy (2022), in which Jeroen Peeters discusses dramaturgy as an experimental, collaborative practice and a material form of thinking. What if we were to apply these ideas to the practice of writing? Peeters will discuss his writerly poetics as it came about in dialogue with dance and performance – including writing along, documenting the languages of making, and exploring the arts of not writing.
Jeroen Peeters is an essayist, dramaturg and performer based in Brussels. He has published widely on contemporary dance and performance and writes about matters such as ecologies of attention, material literacy, readership, commoning and sustainable development. Books include Are we here yet? (2010) on the work of choreographer Meg Stuart; Through the Back: Situating Vision between Moving Bodies (2014), on spectatorship in contemporary dance; the essays Reseeding the library, gleaning readership (2018) and Bookmarks of sorts (2021); and And then it got legs: Notes on dance dramaturgy (2022). Together with Mette Edvardsen he runs the publishing house Varamo Press. Peeters is a research fellow at Hasselt University, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, and PXL-MAD School of Arts.
Friday, June 23, 10-16h, Location tba/HfG Offenbach
Saskia Nitsche: Writing from the material / Writing practice
In a practical workshop we will explore together with Saskia Nitsche what it means to think from the material and how writing could then be done. In a series of experiments we will explore different approaches to different materials - first we will listen to the material itself and observe or remember what we associate with the materiality, the surface, the material's ability to move. And then how to write!
The workshop is aimed at all HTA students, just as students of art and design are very welcome to participate. It is requested that everyone brings a material to the writing workshop, these can be especially popular materials, but also those that trigger ambivalent feelings. Materials that already tell a personal story or those that at first seem less accessible.
Saskia Nitsche lives as an author in Berlin. Studied scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts and literary writing at the German Literature Institute Leipzig, during which time she intensively explored various disciplines of design. Since 2015 she has been teaching literary writing and design at various universities. She writes drama and prose.
Postgraduate funding for graduates of the HTA 2023
Also in 2023 the HTA will again award up to four scholarships "Artistic Research" in the amount of up to 5.000,- € each to former students.
20 Years Hessian Theatre Academy - Anniversary Festival 20. - 22. January 2023
Dear students, dear colleagues, dear partners and friends of the Hessian Theater Academy!
The HTA turns 20. With different aesthetics and working methods, a cautiously eyed study and production alliance began in the winter semester of 2002/03, as an initiative of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art. This association, which remains unique to this day, quickly became a lively and cooperative network of study programs and theaters in Hessen and beyond that closely intertwines and continues to think about teaching, research and professional practice in the performing arts.
20 years of collaboration, discussion, development of new project formats, and always struggling to find the best possible way to think and plan theater, performance, and dance together and for the next generation of theater creators and audiences - that's what we want to celebrate, and we cordially invite you to join us:
- The FESTAKT will take place on 20.1.2023 from 19h at Frankfurt LAB, Schmidtstr. 12, in Frankfurt/M. - with greetings from Minister Angela Dorn and HTA President Prof. Ingo Diehl, a keynote speech by founding member Dr. Elisabeth Schweeger (Artistic Director Capital of Culture 2024) and artistic works by Joana Tischkau ("PLAYBLACK") and Gil Hoz-Klemme ("Gustaf Gründgens / Shame Shame Shame!").
Admission is free. We ask for registration until 12/31/2022 to info_at_hessische-theaterakademie.de.
- our anniversary festival from 20-22.1.2023 will take place at the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, at the Frankfurt LAB, at the Stadttheater Gießen as well as in the Stadtraum Frankfurt/M., with many works by current and former students of the HTA's degree programs.
On the death of HTA-founding-member Hans-Thies Lehmann
With deep sadness we have been informed about the death of our former colleague Hans-Thies Lehmann. Lehmann was one of the founding members of the Hessian Theater Academy, whose conception and development he had a lasting influence on until his retirement in 2010, with great mediation skills and a sharp mind. In the 1980s, Lehmann was a research associate at the newly founded Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen; from 1988, he was a professor of theater studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/M., where he also founded the master's program for dramaturgy in the Hessian Theater Academy network in 2002. With Hans-Thies Lehmann, we are losing a theorist who has inspiringly related the history, present and future of theater and has championed the performing arts, especially in their manifold contemporary forms, attempts and experiments. His observations, ideas and thoughts live on in his numerous publications. As a colleague and mentor, we will miss him deeply.