Ingrid Irrlicht

Ingrid Irrlicht (born February 28, 1956 in Cantavir ) is a German-Hungarian pantomime and performer based in the Munich area.

After graduating from high school, she initially studied literature and English in Munich and London. During her studies there, she came into contact with representatives of the Fools movement of the 1970s and 1980s and began training as a pantomime with Desmond Jones in London. Further stations of the training were street theater with Andy Geer (Munich) and pantomime with Étienne Decroux (Paris), clowning with Fratelli Colombaioni (Rome) and Giacomo (Hamburg) and butoh dance with Sumako Koseki and Eiko & Koma (Paris).

Ingrid Irrlicht developed her own one-woman comedy style and an expressionistic dance called “fantasia corporal”. She also appears as a walking act: in crazy female figures, often made from shower curtains by the British designer Jenny Green-Becker, dressed in shrill costumes, entangling the audience and passers-by in burlesque, but also poetic situations.

Ingrid Irrlicht appears with various programs such as multi-person plays, comedy shows, children's plays and dance theater in Germany, Europe and overseas. She also teaches at cultural and advanced training centers: for example, for the Goethe Institute and the teacher training academy in Dillingen an der Donau . She gives special body language and anti-bullying seminars in schools and for a wide variety of target groups, including on the subject of "Is there female and male humor?" at the media women meeting 2006 at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich.

She played at international festivals such as in Caracas, Lima, Edinburgh, Saarbrücken and again and again at the Tollwood Festival in Munich or the “La Piazza” in Augsburg, as well as on cabaret stages, in youth centers, schools, city libraries, kindergartens and can also be found at exhibition openings and on special occasions.

In November 2009 Ingrid Irrlicht took part in the international pantomime festival MIMAME in Medellín, Colombia . She showed there, among other things, two political works. In "The Sad and Unbelievable Story of Maria and José" she deals with the topic of "Politics and Violence in Latin America". The other piece, a performance "La noche de los cristales rotos", relates to November 9, 1938 in Germany.

After a series of appearances in Ethiopia in 2014, Irrlicht, in cooperation with the Mohr-Villa cultural center in Munich- Freimann, relocated one of their main focuses to working with refugees who respond particularly well to their language-barrier-free theater.

Web links

• Ingrid Irrlicht Official Website