Helena Waldmann

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Helena Waldmann

Helena Waldmann (* 1962 in Burghausen ) is a theater director and choreographer .

Life

Helena Waldmann studied applied theater studies from 1982 to 1987 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with Andrzej Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann. She works within the course and a. with Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Adolf Dresen, Emma Lewis Thomas and Molly Davies. From 1993-199 she lives in Frankfurt / Main, works at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and tours internationally with her productions. In 2000 she received a call from Berlin, she staged for 'Berlin Offene Stadt "for the Berliner Festspiele and is artist in residence in Podewil. In 2003 she received the UNESCO award for the production Headhunters choreographed with Brazilian dancers in Salvador de Bahia. The political power of her choreographies is unmistakable, for example in her "Letters from Tentland" produced in Tehran for six Iranian women, in her short film "Emotional Rescue", shot in Palestine, in her answers to the European asylum policy in "Return to" by Iranian exiles Sender ", as well as in" after work! - das gegengift ", a festival against the modern labor dictatorship. In" BurkaBondage "she related the Islamic veil and Japanese bondage, in" Get revolver "she showed the socially outlawed role of dementia. With her productions she regularly hits the exposed nerve: most recently with “Made in Bangladesh” which the frenzied and exploitative A Working conditions of the present thematized. Her productions tour worldwide.

Works

Choreographies
  • Foreshortened Landscape (1991)
  • In the loneliness of the cotton fields (1991)
  • No Showers, Douches and Boos (1992)
  • Affaire Rue de Lourcine (1993)
  • amphitryon - dephitryonized (1992)
  • the disease death (1993)
  • circuit (1995)
  • face .... à (1996)
  • vodka concave (1997)
  • Glücksjohnny (1998)
  • CheshireCat® (1999)
  • see and be scene (2000)
  • Show Window (2001)
  • Expansion of the combat zone (2001)
  • Chinese fashion show for China Festival, Beijing / Berlin (2001)
  • Banquet for long pigs (2001)
  • Odyssey 2002 (2002)
  • The Penguin Invasion (2002)
  • wash cut blow dry (2003)
  • Headhunters (2003)
  • Letters from Tentland (2005)
  • emotional rescue - a dance film made in Palestine (2005)
  • Crash - bordergames (2006)
  • return to sender (2006)
  • end of working day! - the antidote (2008)
  • BurkaBondage (2009)
  • get a revolver (2010)
  • GlückStück (2011)
  • Made in Bangladesh (2014)
  • Good Passes Bad Passes - A Borderline Experience (2017)
  • We Love Horses (2018)
  • The Intruder - An Autopsy (2019)

Prizes and awards

  • 1997 Impulse Prize for concave vodka
  • 2001 EVA award for show windows
  • 2003 UNESCO Prize for Headhunters
  • 2006 Novi Sad Theater Prize (Serbia) for return to sender

• 2006 Special Prize of Al Jazeera film festival for "emotional rescue"

literature

  • Hans-Thies Lehmann: Post-dramatic theater. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-88661-209-0 .
  • Susanne Vincenz (Ed.): Letters from Tentland. Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-405-0 .
  • Arnd Wesemann: Always dancing. Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-911-4 .
  • Natasha Hassiotis, Great Choreographers, CaptainBook, 2012, Athens
  • Claudia Rosiny, Intermedial Relationships between Media History and Modern Dance Aesthetics, transcript Verlag, 2013
  • Arnd Wesemann: "Made in Bangladesh." Editie Leesmagazijn, Amsterdam 2014, ISBN 978-94-91717-16-1 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Helena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen