Gerd Taube
Gerd Taube (born February 17, 1962 in Marienberg , Erzgebirge ) is a German theater scholar and university professor. He was best known as the director of the children's and youth theater center in the Federal Republic of Germany. He is an honorary professor at the Institute for Youth Book Research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was chairman of the Federal Association for Cultural Education for Children and Young People for many years . He also publishes on the topics of puppet and puppet theater, theater for young audiences, young drama and cultural education.
Life and work
Gerd Taube studied theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1984 and initially worked there as a research assistant . In 1989 he became head dramaturge and deputy director at the Municipal Puppet Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz, where he was involved in the change in theater during the fall of the Berlin Wall, until the Berlin Senator for Culture Ulrich Roloff-Momin brought him to Berlin in 1993 , where he Founding director of the Schaubude Berlin puppet and puppet theater in the historic building of the puppet theater on Greifswalder Strasse . Also in 1993 Taube was awarded a PhD in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on "Puppetry as a cultural-historical phenomenon". phil. PhD.
In 1997 Taube moved to Frankfurt am Main and since then has been the director of the children's and youth theater center in the Federal Republic of Germany . In this function, he is also the artistic director of the German children's and youth theater meeting “Just a moment!” , Which takes place every two years in Berlin, and chairman of the jury for the awarding of the German Youth Theater Prize . From 1999 Taube was also a board member of the Federal Association for Cultural Education for Children and Young People and its chairman from 2009 to 2018.
At the request of the Institute for Youth Book Research, Taube was awarded the title of honorary professor by the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2014. Since 1997 he has been a lecturer at the institute.
Works (selection)
- Cultural education for everyone! kopaed, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-86736-340-2
- The Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2015. ISBN 978-3-631-66234-2
- 55 monologues for children's and youth theater Henschel, Leipzig 2008. ISBN 978-3-89487-586-2
- Children play Theater Schibri, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-937895-26-0
- Puppetry as a cultural-historical phenomenon Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995. ISBN 3-484-66014-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/55526217/Dr_-Gerd-Taube
- ↑ http://www.theaterderzeit.de/person/592/
- ^ New artistic directors for two Berlin theaters, in: Neue Zuercher Zeitung, March 2, 1993
- ↑ http://www.kinderundjugendmedien.de/index.php/sonstiges/1054-der-theaterwissenschaftler-dr-gerd-taube-wird-zum-honorarprofessor-an-der-goethe-universitaet-ernannt
- ↑ https://www.alexander-verlag.com/autoren/autor/140-Gerd_Taube.html
- ↑ Honorary professorship for the BKJ chairman Dr. Gerd Taube ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.muk.uni-frankfurt.de/51315111/209 ?
Web links
- Gerd Taube at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
- Literature by and about Gerd Taube in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taube, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienberg |