Johannes Maile

Johannes Maile (* 1976 in Mannheim ) is a German director , dramaturge and curator . In 2016/17 he was curator at the Wiener Festwochen

Life and work

Johannes Maile was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1976. He grew up in Mannheim, Wolfach in the Black Forest and Engelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1997 he moved to Vienna. From 1999 to 2002 he lived in Berlin , Tel Aviv and in several places in South America . Johannes Maile is married and has two children.

Johannes Maile studied directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1997 to 2003. Since 2003 he has worked as a director, actor and dramaturge at Theater Phönix Linz, Landestheater Niederösterreich , Theater National de Luxembourg , Schauspielhaus Wien , Tanzquartier Wien , Donaufestival Krems and Kampnagel Hamburg.

From September 2006 to July 2013 Johannes Maile was artistic director for theater, dance and performance at the Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK) in Vienna. During this time, he positioned the WUK as an interdisciplinary venue for performing arts and as an international platform for freelance theater makers and choreographers. From 2010 to 2013 he initiated and organized the festival Jacuzzi - some days of performance, party and ...

From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the performance collective Dolce After Ghana. Since 2013 he has been working regularly with the performance collective God's Entertainment. Together with Peter Kutin and God's Entertainment, he organized the REAL DEAL festival in 2016 - the officially approved festival for false deliveries . Further collaborations between 2013 and 2016 came about with Fuckhead and the choreographer and visual artist Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe, among others.

From July 2016 he worked as a curator at the Wiener Festwochen and was part of the artistic management team, together with the artistic director Tomas Zierhofer-Kin and the curators Marlene Engel and Nadine Jessen, responsible for the program of the Wiener Festwochen 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Wiener Festwochen - About us
↑ ^a ^b orf.at: Festwochen change curators . Article dated July 4, 2017, accessed July 4, 2017.
^ Théâtre National du Luxembourg. Retrieved April 17, 2017 (fr-fr).
↑ WUK main portal: WUK. Retrieved April 17, 2017 (Austrian German).

personal data
SURNAME	Maile, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director, dramaturge and curator
DATE OF BIRTH	1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim , Germany

[1] Wiener Festwochen - About us

[orf2852757-2] orf.at: Festwochen change curators . Article dated July 4, 2017, accessed July 4, 2017.

[3] Théâtre National du Luxembourg. Retrieved April 17, 2017 (fr-fr).

[4] WUK main portal: WUK. Retrieved April 17, 2017 (Austrian German).