2007 » Germany » National section

New Spaces for the Classic

In a time in which we are confronted with an enormous acceleration of reality, German theatre artists show different attempts to connect theatrical space and reality in search of contemporary artistic forms of expression. The exhibition shows new approaches to the classics, while maintaining the intention of the original text. The works presented (videos, films and model works) are bursting the bonds of reality and fiction and creating new levels of performance space. These might be impulses toward traditional forms, perhaps a return to the roots of theatre itself.

Other Collaborators: Cordula Ernst, Gordon Menge, Markus Fleck, Daniel Ganz, Ben Clarck Supported by the Federal Foreign Office Germany

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Johannes Schütz (Johannes Schuetz)

Specialization: director, set designer, costume designer
Education: studied stage design in Munich and Hamburg
Collaboration with theatres: Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
Teaching activities: Professor for scenography at the Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jürgen Gosch, Reinhild Hoffmann


Exhibiting works

• Williame Shakespeare: Macbeth (Macbeth), Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf 2005, Director: Jürgen Gosch, ,
  

  

  

  
  
  
• Sebastian Hannak

Specialization: set designer
Education: studied stage and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

• Andrea Králová

* 17.12.1970, Plzeň
Specialization: set designer, costume designer, painter , fashion designer, puppet designer, scenographer
Education: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, PhD in the scenography of alternative and puppet theatre; history of art, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University (Prague)
Collaboration with theatres: Ústí nad Labem: Činoherní studio; Prague: National Theatre, Na Zábradlí, Komedie, Minor; Plzeň: Divadlo J. K. Tyla; Cheb: Západočeské divadlo; Brno: National Theatre; Ostrava: National Theatre
Teaching activities: Academy of Performing Arts, Department of Scenography for Alternative and Puppet Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jiří Pokorný, Zdeněk Bartoš, Viktorie Čermáková, David Drábek, David Czesany
Additional information: She graduated from art history at FF UK and KALD DAMU (1998). Since 1996 she has continuously co-operated with the National Theatre Prague, the J. K. Tyl Theatre Plzeň, National Theatre in Ostrava, the Drama studio Usti n/L., the Theatre Hadivadlo Brno, the Dejvické Theatre and the Drama Club Prague. She also devotes her time to fine arts (painting, graphic art, carving, ceramics) and film. She is a freelance lecturer at DAMU - she holds a scenography seminar. She held ten individual exhibitions, too.