Carena Schlewitt

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Carena Schlewitt (* 1961 in Leipzig ) is a German theater scholar . Since 2018 she has been the director of the European Center for the Arts Hellerau . In addition to accompanying and developing the independent theater scene in Germany and Switzerland, her focus is on the theater's discussions with the transformation processes in East Germany and the like. Eastern Europe, the development of international performance theater and the relationship between theater and public space.

Career

Schlewitt grew up in Bad Lausick in Saxony and in 1980 went to the Humboldt University of Berlin to study theater studies . She then worked from 1985 to 1993 as a research assistant in the performing arts department at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin , at a time when social changes in Eastern Europe also affected theater work in the GDR.

Carena Schlewitt worked at the Podewil production facility in Berlin until 1999, where, among other things, she co-founded the independent scene festival " rich & famous " in 1996 . During this time she also worked for the Theater der Welt festival , which took place in Berlin in 1999. From 1999 to 2003 she worked as a dramaturge and deputy artistic director at the Forum Free Theater in Düsseldorf, where she a. a. curated the project "city mapping" for the Festival Theater der Welt 2002 in Düsseldorf, followed by the position as theater curator and deputy artistic director at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin until 2008. There she was essential in the development of the 100 Grad Berlin Festival for involved the independent scene and curated several international festivals, including a. 2007 the festival "Detour via China".

In 2008 she went to Basel Kaserne as director for ten years , a cultural center for the independent theater , dance and performance scene , which she saved from the threat of closure. From 2012 to 2018 she also directed the international theater festival in Basel, which was revived after a four-year break.

Since the 2018/2019 season she has been contracted as artistic director of the European Center for the Arts in Hellerau, which gave her the opportunity to return to her home region.

Schlewitt was a member of various juries, including for the “ Impulse ” festival , for the German-Polish committee of experts and the “Doppelpass” program of the Federal Cultural Foundation , for the “Swiss-Chinese Cultural Explorations” of the Pro Helvetia Foundation, for the Swiss Dance Days 2011 and for the expert commission of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia . She is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Awards

Publications

  • with Barbara Büscher: Free Theater: German-German Materials . Ed .: Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft . Hagen 1991, ISBN 3-923064-56-X .
  • Contribution to the history of the GDR theater . In: Dragan Klaic, Dutch Theater Institute (ed.): The Dissident Muse, Critical Theater in Eastern and Central Europe 1945-1989 . 1995 ((unpublished study)).
  • Armored cruiser Potemkin and other stories. Alternative Theater Festival in Krakow. In: Theater of Time . No. 7 , 1998.
  • Musical virtuosity in an open construction. Oikos Gardzienice - a given place in a given time, On the work of the Center for Theater Practices Gardzienice (Poland) . In: Theater of the World / Theater of Time (workbook) . Berlin 1999.
  • L`explosion après l`agonie? (=  Alternative théatrales . No. 64 ). Festival d`Avignon, Avignon 2000.
  • Changed topography of German theater after 1989 . In: Roland Berbig (Ed.): Collected: the unofficial literary scene in the GDR after 1990: an inventory . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934344-05-4 , p. 148-159 .
  • Polski Express. A journey through the past and present of Polish theater . In: Kirsten Hehmeyer, Matthias Pees, Katrin Dod (eds.): Import Export: Arbeitsbuch zum HAU Berlin . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-40-3 , p. 100-109 .
  • Creative Europe ?! - What artists give Europe . (Conference lecture). In: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Ed.): Europa Kreativ? Requirements for a European cultural policy . (Documentation of the conference of the Forum Berlin of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on June 27, 2014). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95861-017-0 , pp. 10–16 ( online via library.fes.de [PDF]).
  • Talk to each other! In: Norbert Sievers, Tobias J. Knoblich, Patrick S. Föhl (eds.): Culture.Macht.Unity? - Cultural policy as transformation policy (= Institute for Cultural Policy of the Cultural Political Society [Hrsg.]: Yearbook for Cultural Policy . No. 15 ). Transkript Verlag, Bonn 2016, p. 335-340 .
  • Wall to wall, the GDR, Europe and Hellerau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Dresden in Europa - Europa in Dresden (=  Dresdner Hefte . No. 138 ). Dresden 2019, p. 50-57 .
  • Tilting figures in dialogue with the audience. In: Cie Yan Duyvendak, Mimos - Schweizer Theaterjahrbuch 2019, Peter Lang Verlag

Editorships

  • Heiner Müller "The wage pusher 1987/88" . In: Documentation 2 . Academy of Arts of the GDR, Berlin 1990.
  • with Tobias Brenk, Boris Nikitin (Ed.): Document, forgery, reality: material volume on contemporary documentary theater . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943881-84-4 .
  • with Boris Nikitin , Tobias Brenk (eds.): Document, forgery, reality: material volume on contemporary documentary theater . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943881-84-4 .
  • with Dagmar Walser, Tobias Brenk: Echoraum Kaserne Basel Chronicle of a decade. 1st edition. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-85616-873-5 .

Web links

  • In conversation with Deutschlandfunk "Theater in der Gartenstadt", December 4, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Carena Schlewitt takes over the management in Hellerau. In: Music in Dresden. September 23, 2016, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Jonathan Wosch: Carena Schlewitt has great visions for Hellerau. In: sachsen-fernsehen.de. October 21, 2016, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Jasmin Kalarickal: Dresden director against right: She fights for art . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 6, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Tobi Müller: Wende 1989: Only the theaters made the fall of the wall possible . October 23, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Michael Merschmeier, Der Theaterverlag: tanz - Archive. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Alfred Schlienger: Pearl of Performance Art | NZZ . July 28, 2014, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  7. ^ Simone Kaempf: The Basel international theater festival is being reissued under the direction of Carena Schlewitt. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej . In: Monitor Polski . tape 83 , November 7, 2005, pp. 2744 (Polish, digitized via prawo.sejm.gov.pl [PDF]): "za zasługi w promowaniu polskiego teatru"
  9. ↑ Basel-Stadt Culture Prize: Prize winners. (PDF) In: kultur.bs.ch. Government Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The NRW female artist award - Frauenkulturbüro NRW. In: frauenkulturbuero-nrw.de. 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Intendant Carena Schlewitt - Theater in the Garden City. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schlewitt, Carena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar, dramaturge and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig