Dissemination / Activities

5th December 2018
Concluding Colloquium at the tfm | Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna

Concluding Colloquium after the submission of the habilitation thesis within the framework of th research project in spring 2018 at the tfm |Department for Theatre, Film- and Media Studies at the University of Vienna / Austria

Winter Term 2018/2019
Course at the tfm | Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna

Holding a Research-seminar in collaboration with Mag. Sara Tiefenbacher inside the frame of the modul "Forms of Staging and Aestehtic Perception"  for the MA-Curriculum Theatre, Film and Media Studies entitled  "Jerzy Grotowski. Towards a poor theatre and art as vehicle" at the tfm | Department for Theatre, Film- and Media Studies at the University of Vienna / Austria

8th June 2018
Guestlecture with workshop to Jerzy Grotowski in the framework of the seminar "Kunst und Utopie" at the UdK Berlin

Guestlecture with workshop to Jerzy Grotowski's theatre work in the framework of Prof. Dr. Barbara Gronau's and Dr. Silvia Mazzini's seminar "Armut als Kunst und Utopie" at the Studium Generale Programm of the Berlin University of the Arts / Germany

28th May 2018
Statement at Diskurs. Theater anders denken. Book launch and discussion Erinnern – Erzählen – Erkennen Schauspielhaus Leipzig

Statement concerning the article "Spiel der Masken – Ariane Mnouchkine und das Eigenleben ihrer Figuren" at Diskurs. Theater anders denken – book launch and discussion of the anthology "Erinnern – Erzählen – Erkennen. Vom Wissen kultureller Praktiken" 28th May 2018, Schauspielhaus Leipzig in cooperation with the Institute of Theatre Studies of Leipzig University / Germany

April 2018
Application of the habilitation thesis at the University of Vienna
Application for the "venia docendi" in the academic discipline of Theatre Studies and submission of the habilitation thesis with the title "Ephemer und leibhaftig. Schauspielerische Erkundungen von Ariane Mnouchkine, Carmelo Bene und Jerzy Grotowski" at the University of Vienna / Austria

Winter Term 2017/2018
Course at the tfm | Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna

Holding a Research-seminar inside the frame of the modul "Aesthetics and Poetics"  for the MA-Curriculum Theory of Theatre, Film and Media resp. inside the frame of the modul "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" for the MA-Curriculum Theatre, Film and Media Studies entitled  "Théâtre du Soleil. About the collective theatre productions of Ariane Mnouchkine" at the tfm | Department for Theatre, Film- and Media Studies at the University of Vienna / Austria

20th October 2017
Short presentation at the book presentation Erinnern – Erzählen – Erkennen at the University of Vienna

Short presentation "Spiel der Masken – Ariane Mnouchkine und das Eigenleben ihrer Figuren" at the book presentation of the anthology "Erinnern – Erzählen – Erkennen. Vom Wissen kultureller Praktiken"  20th October 2017 at the Alte Kapelle, Campus of the University of Vienna / Austria

13rd March 2017
Presentation and discussion at the 11th Research Day of tfm | Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna

Presentation "Wenn es uns alle angeht. Einblicke in theateranthropologische Studien zu Mnouchkine, Bene und Grotowski" and discussion of the actual state of affairs of the research project (Re)Presenting Theatrical Concepts of Being at the 11th Research Day of the tfm | Deparment of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University Vienna / Austria

10th Oct. – 10th Nov. 2016
Study trip and participation in symposia including lectures at the University of Catania and Ragusa/Ibla, Sicily

Study and translation trip at the University of Catania as well as cooperation with Prof.ssa Alessandra Schininà concerning the conference "Aspetti dell'Ulissismo intellettuale dall'Ottocento a oggi" (within the framework of the research project FIR 2014 (C76ADB) "Intellectual Ulyssisism Between the 19th and the 21st Centuries") at DISUM - SDS di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, University of Catania (Ragusa Ibla) / Italy including the lecture Magari lo fosse stata - Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées 2003), creazione collettiva del Théâtre du Soleil as well as the symposium "L'Austria e il Mediterraneo. Peregrinazioni e sconfinamenti tra realtà e immaginario" under the patronage of the Austrian Cultural Forum of Rome at the Ex Convento di Santa Teresa Ragusa Ibla, SDS di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, University of Catania (Ragusa/Ibla) / Italy including the lecture "Il mare è un buco". Elfriede Jelinek e "La Maggioranza Silenziosa"

Fall semester 2015
Course at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Bern

Holding a BA-seminar / MA-course entitled "50 years Théâtre du Soleil. About the collective theatre productions of Ariane Mnouchkine" at the ITW (Institute for Theatre Studies) at the University of Bern (available only in German) / Switzerland

21st – 24th October 2015
Participation in the interdisciplinary symposium "Visible - Invisible: 'Gespensterfelder' oder Vom Wissen kultureller Praktiken" organized by the Institute of Theatre Studies of Leipzig University

Participation in the interdisciplinary symposium "Visible - Invisible: 'Gespensterfelder' oder vom Wissen kultureller Praktiken" (available in German) - incl. meetings between theory and practice org. by the Institute of Theatre Studies at the Leipzig University / Germany including the lecture Spiel der Masken - Ariane Mnouchkine und die Seelen ihrer Figuren

14th July 2015
Evening Lecture – Putting on a Phrygian Hat. About the relation between religion and Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil

Evening Lecture at the Summer School "Concepts of Holiness: Performing Radicality: The Return of the Religious" of the International Postgraduate Programme (IPP) Performance and Media Studies 2015, 
Institute of Film and Theatre Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) / Germany

17th May – 25th May 2015
Lecture at Giornate Iblee della Germanistica III at the University of Catania and excursion to the Teatro Greco of Siracusa

Cooperation with Prof.ssa Alessandra Schininà of the Department of "Lingue e Letterature Straniere" in Ragusa, University of Catania, Sicily (I) for Giornate Iblee della Germanistica III and lecture at the series of lectures "Fantastico e grottesco nella letteratura tedesca" with the title Grottesco, orribile e estremo. Penthesilea, Heinrich von Kleist e Carmelo Bene.
Study trip and excursion to the Teatro greco of Siracusa as well as visiting the theatre festival Ciclo di Rappresentazioni classiche organized by Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (available in Italian) in Siracusa, Sicily (I).

26th February – 1st March 2015
Excursion to the Théâtre du Soleil, Paris

Excursion to Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil at the Cartoucherie De Vincennes in Paris / France in collaboration with Mag. Laurette Burgholzer (research and translation French/German) concerning the research project (Re)Presenting Theatrical Concepts of Being; study trip and visit to the theatre specially focused on the space of the theatre place and the mise en scène which were presented to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the venue, Macbeth by William Shakespeare

25th January – 6th February 2015
Research sojourn at the Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego, Wrocɫaw

Research sojourn at the Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego, Wrocɫaw / Poland in collaboration with Mag. Sara Tiefenbacher (research and translation Polish/German) concerning the research project (Re)Presenting Theatrical Concepts of Being; focal points were Jerzy Grotowski's beginning of theatre work at Teatr 13 Rzędów in Opole and at Teatr Laboratorium in Wrocɫaw as well as researching and studying material and documents at the Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego's archive directed by Dr. Zbigniew Jędrychowski; furthermore scientific exchange and discussions with Sylwia Fiałkiewicz from the Research Department

25th – 28th September 2014
Participation in the 12th Congress of the Society for Theatre Studies including a lecture

Participation in the 12th Congress of the Society for Theatre Studies "The Epistemes of Theatre" at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Department of Theatre Studies / Germany including the lecture Da/sein und Theater/Wissenschaft

12th and 13th July 2014
two day workshop – Acolyte –Revolutionary – Ascetic: Carmelo Bene as a theatre artist

Workshop at the Summer School "Concepts of Holiness: Performing Belief: The Religious as Critical Practice" of the International Postgraduate Programme (IPP) Performance and Media Studies 2014, 
Institute of Film and Theatre Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) / Germany

30th and 31st May 2014
Participation in a two day workshop including a lecture

Participation in the two day workshop "Überschreiten, berühren, umformen. Figuren der Grenze in Theater, Film und Medien" (available in German) in the context of the Trinational Master Degree Programme "Medienkulturanalyse. Theater- und Medienkulturen im transnationalen Raum" / «Analyse des Pratiques Culturelles: Cultures scéniques et médiatiques dans l'espace transnational» (Master Trinational: Düsseldorf – Nantes – Vienna) (available in German and French) organised by tfm | Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the Institut Français Autriche, Vienna / Austria including the lecture Al di là, jenseits. Carmelo Bene auf der Bühne

8th April – 27th May 2014
Research sojourn at CTA – Centro Teatro Ateneo, Rome

Research sojourn at the Department of Art History and Performing Arts (visual, digital arts, theatre, cinema, dance cultural heritage) at Sapienza University of Rome / Italy following Prof. Dr. Guido di Palma's invitation to exchange and discuss the research project (Re)Presenting Theatrical Concepts of Being; focal points were Carmelo Bene's theatre as well as reseach and study at the CTA – Centro Teatro Ateneo (available in Italian) in cooperation with Prof. Maria Grazia Berlangieri PhD

29th Nov. – 14th Dec. 2013
two week research sojourn as well as lecture / presentation concerning the research project

Research sojourn at the Institute of Theatre Studies of Leipzig University  / Germany (website of the Institute only available in German) - in particular for scholarly exchange with Prof. Dr. Gerda Baumbach (Theaterstudien); as well as to present and discuss the research project (Re)Presenting Theatrical Concepts of Being focused on the first contact with and at the theatre of A.Mnouchkine, C.Bene and J.Grotowski in the frame of G. Baumbach's doctoral and habilitation colloquium

13th and 14th July 2013
two day workshop – Grotowski, Richards, Ang: Holy Transmission


Workshop at the Summer School "Concepts of Holiness: Re-thinking the Religious in Theatre, Cultural Performance and Media" of the International Postgraduate Programme (IPP) Performance and Media Studies 2013, 
Institute of Film and Theatre Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) / Germany