"Music is never pure - it is attitude, it is theatre." (Luciano Berio)

Credo

In the colloquium, current trends in collaborative music theatre production were presented and concretised using the example of own works with, among others, the Berlin music theatre formation "schindelkilliusdutschke", with students from the University of Kassel (project.worx) and, since 2017, with students from the University of Oldenburg.

In this context, the following credo regarding open working methods in (music) theatre seems relevant:

I love open spaces that are only gradually filled in the course of a joint creative process. This offers the opportunity to absorb a great deal of the individual personality and above all the specific dynamics of the respective group, which gradually becomes a team. The planned result is therefore not fixed at the beginning and you are embarking on a joint journey with an uncertain outcome. For me, this is also an essential interface between open-ended project work and trends in collective development processes in current theatre and music theatre creation.

Born in 1971 in Darmstadt, where he also completed his A-levels and civilian service.

Studied school music and piano at the University of the Arts, philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Physical theatre studies in London, various training courses/workshops on music and theatre

2002-12 freelance work between music theatre and theatre music (e.g. at Staatstheater Cottbus, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim Gorki Theater, Radialsystem V), experimental music ("Ensemble Zwischentöne" and as a regular guest in the ensemble "Die Maulwerker") and music education (e.g. several times at Konzerthaus Berlin at "Open your Ears")

2005-12, mainly with the Berlin music theatre formation "schindelkilliusdutschke", own piece developments in music theatre and music performance as well as in other independent productions in Berlin at the Neuköllner Oper, Konzerthaus, Sophiensaele, HAU, fabrik Potsdam, FFT Düsseldorf, Schauspiel Köln as well as in other European countries and in Israel

Experience as a music lecturer at the "berliner schule für schauspiel" (2003-07) and as a theatre and music lecturer at the IAM e.V. school music weeks in Eschwege (2005-09)

From 2011-17 lecturer for scenic-musical project work at the University of Kassel (www.projectworx.org) and from 2013-17 research assistant for music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main

Since 09/2017 artistic assistant with a focus on "Music, Scene, Theatre" at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg

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