Elisabeth Schweeger

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Elisabeth Schweeger (* 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian literary scholar , cultural manager and artistic director .

Life

She studied Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, German Studies and Philosophy in Innsbruck , Vienna and at the Sorbonne in Paris . First she worked as a journalist for Falter in Vienna and co-editor of the architecture magazine Umriss . She also worked as a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where she was also the head of the exhibition department. From 1993 she was artistic director of the Marstall / Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munichwith an interdisciplinary program and later also chief dramaturge at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel .

In 1999 she received the Theater Prize of the City of Munich . From 2001 to 2009 Schweeger was the artistic director of the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus . As a curator, she was responsible for numerous exhibitions, including the Ars Electronica in Linz and the Documenta in Kassel. In 2001 she was commissioner for the Venice Biennale / Austrian pavilion. Since 2009 she has been the artistic director of the KunstFestSpiele, Hanover. With her penultimate season "Relationships" she moved to the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg as its director (since 2014) . The KunstFestSpiele she set up was presented in 2015 under the title “Against the Grain”.

Works

  • “Viennese Architecture Talks”, Ernst und Sohn Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • "Evictions. On the insolence of considering theater to be a medium of the future ”, together with Ralph Hammerthaler. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • “Simulation and Illusion” with contributions from Baudrillard, Druckrey, Schlosser, Rötzer, Weibel, Greenaway, Christaller, Kramer, Bijl, Maturana ”Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart
  • "Frankfurter Dialoge I-VIII" - Philosophical salons with Jean-Luc Nancy, K. Theweleit, H. Münkler, S. Neiman, W. Engler, B. Waldenfels, G. Hamacher, M. Lüdtke. Belleville Verlag, Munich 2002
  • “Deception is no longer a game”. Thinking about theater. Publisher Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008.
  • "Interface. Kunst Stadt Theater “Verlag Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, April 14, 2010

Media reports (selection)

  • Jörg Worat: The curtain is falling / An era is coming to an end: Dr. Elisabeth Schweeger, director of the "KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen" since 2009, breaks down her tent in Hanover and will head the Ludwigsburg Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg from September 1st , in Eva Holtz ( ViSdP , Red.): Nobilis. Lifestyle from Hanover , 36th year, June 2014, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014, ISSN  1437-6237 , pp. 46–49

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marstall Munich
  2. ^ Archive Schweeger KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen
  3. ↑ KunstFestSpiele
personal data
SURNAME Schweeger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar, cultural manager and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna