Barbara Wollrath-Kramer

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Barbara Wollrath-Kramer (* 1952 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German actress and director .

After studying painting and composition at the Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter near Bonn, whose predecessor - an independent art study center - she helped set up, she studied drama at the Novalis School in Stuttgart. In Berlin she studied violin with Ernst Reuther. She has played at various independent theaters in Germany and Switzerland and later, after successfully passing the stage maturity test, at the Central Stage, TV and Film Agency at municipal and state houses in Germany (including Berlin, Stuttgart, Darmstadt and at the Erfurt Theater ). In Berlin, Wollrath-Kramer met Rüdiger Meinel, who became her main mentor for acting. In Berlin-Kreuzberg she founded an off-theater together with theater friends. She was the director of various theater projects in the professional and semi-professional area as well as with lay people.

In addition to her training at the Novalis School, the acting methodology of Strasberg, Stanislawski, Michael Chekhov as well as butoh and flamenco dance and encounters with directors of various orientations etc. have shaped her artistic, acting and didactic work . a. Peter Stein . Through years of experience in acting education, she has developed her own approach to the performing arts with laypeople, the focus of which is on the subject of "drive" with the poles of attraction and repulsion and the exploration of human will.

Wollrath-Kramer is the initiator of the Theater Total project in Bochum.

Since 1996 she has been a board member of Theater Macht Mut eV , artistic director and managing director of the TheaterTotal project in personal union .

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