Florian Malzacher

Florian Malzacher (born July 2, 1970 ) is a German curator for contemporary performative arts, author, dramaturge and former theater critic (among others for Theater heute , Frankfurter Rundschau , taz ). From 2013 to 2017 he headed the Impulse theater festival , before that he was head dramaturge / curator of the interdisciplinary festival Steirischer Herbst from 2006 to 2012 . He is the author or editor of numerous books on pioneering international theater groups such as Forced Entertainment (“Not Even a Game Anymore”) and Rimini Protokoll (“Experts in Everyday Life”), current discourses in contemporary political theater (“Not just a Mirror”) and Strategies of artistic and political activism ("Truth is Concrete"). As a dramaturge, he (s) also works with artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Lola Arias , Mariano Pensotti, Nature Theater of Oklahoma and Tania Bruguera.

Curatorial projects (selection, excluding festivals)

• Training for the future - Ruhrtriennale 2018 & 2019 together with Jonas Staal

• How to prepare for the (un) predictable? - Performance marathon. INSTAR - Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, Havana / Cuba, 2018, curated with Joanna Warsza

• Sense of Possibility - performance program on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the revolution. St. Petersburg, 2017. With andCompany & Co., Pavel Aseniev, Keti Chukhrov, Olga Jitlina, Boris Nikitin, Alexandra Pirici, Vokrug da Okolo u. a.

• Artists Organizations International - HAU Berlin, 2015 - Initiated by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal, Joanna Warsza. With Chto Delat, Forensic Architecture , Grupo Etcétera, Tania Bruguera , Renzo Martens , Milo Rau , Yael Bartana, Jan Ritsema, Marina Naprushkina , Matthijs de Bruijne, John Jordan, Ahmet Öğüt, The Silent University, WochenKlausur, Center for Political Beauty and others. v. a.

• Appropriations - Performative Conference. Ethnological Museum Berlin / Humboldt LAB, 2015. With Ulf Aminde & Shi-Wei Lu, Yael Bartana , deufert & plischke, Ant Hampton & Britt Hatzius, Dorothea von Hantelmann , Kapwani Kiwanga, Alexandra Pirici and others. a.

• Truth is concrete. A 24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art - Graz, steirischer herbst 2012. Curated by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler , Kira Kirsch & Florian Malzacher (idea & concept). 170-hour marathon with around 200 artists, activists and theorists at the interface between art and politics. Accompanied by workshops, performances, exhibitions and a parallel, self-organization based “Open Marathon”.

• Dictionary of War / Dictionary of War - Frankfurt, Graz, Munich, Berlin, 2006/07. Curated by Unfriendly Takeover & Multitude eV 100 terms on the topic of war presented in two four-day events in the form of lectures, performances, films, slide shows, readings and concerts in strict alphabetical order.

• Performing Lectures - Frankfurt, 2004-06. A project by Unfriendly Takeover. With works with Jérôme Bel , Deufert + Plischke, Tim Etchells , Paul Granjon, Stefan Kaegi, Felix Kubin , Lone Twin, Martin Nachbar, Sibylle Peters, Xavier le Roy , Daniel Belasco Rogers, Mårten Spångberg, David Weber-Krebs u. a.

• International Summer Academy - Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, 2002 & 2004. Curated by Thomas Frank (2004), Florian Malzacher (2002, 2004) Christine Peters (2002), Marten Spangberg (2002, 2004)

Books (selection)

• Not Even a Game Anymore: The Theater by Forced Entertainment. Together with Judith Helmer (ed.). Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89581-115-7 .
• Everyday experts: the Rimini Protokoll theater. Together with Miriam Dreysse (ed.). Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89581-181-4 .
• Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics. Together with steirischer herbst (ed.). Sternberg Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943365-84-9 .
• Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theater of Today. (Ed.) Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89581-378-8 .
• Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy. Together with Joanna Warsza (ed.). Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89581-443-3 .
• Life and work of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma . (Ed.). Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-89581-512-6 .
• Board games. Political theater today. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-89581-513-3

Web links

• florianmalzacher.tumblr.com , Florian Malzacher's own website
• Biography on the website of NRW-Kultur.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Cerny: "Not Even a Game Anymore". Das Theater von Forced Entertainment - The Theater of Forced ... Book Review. In: falter.at. Retrieved June 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Everyday experts: the Rimini Protokoll theater . Alexander Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89581-181-4 .
3. ↑ Florian Malzacher: Truth is Concrete. In: ArtsInitiative.Columbia.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2017 . 
4. ^ Website Ruhrtriennale 2018. In: ruhrtriennale.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Peppered: TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE | Ruhrtriennale. Retrieved January 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ¿Cómo estar preparado para lo (im) predecible? Review. In: diariodecuba.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018 (Spanish). 
7. ^ Website of the Goethe Institute St. Petersburg. In: goethe.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Ingo Arend: Artist, hear the signals. Review. In: taz.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Appropriations / Teaser. In: Humboldt Lab website - humboldt-lab.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
10. ^ Anne Katrin Fessler, Helmut Ploebst, Colette M. Schmidt: Art is always an act. Review. In: derstandard.at. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Klaus Walter: Heavy marching baggage. Review. In: taz.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Unfriendly Takeover is back. Announcement. In: journal-frankfurt.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Vanessa Rato: International Summer Academy. Review. In: publico.pt. Retrieved December 14, 2018 (Portuguese). 
14. ^ Eva Behrendt: Whiskey and nasal spray. Review. In: taz.de. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .