Kristin Wardetzky

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Kristin Wardetzky (born July 26, 1942 in Ranis ) is a retired professor of theater education , fairy tale and storytelling researcher and storyteller . She lives and works in Berlin.

Life

After graduating from high school, Kristin Wardetzky studied German and English at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and a distance learning course in educational psychology in Leipzig. From 1970 to 1992 she was a theater pedagogue at the theater of friendship in Berlin. There she established reception research as a specific feature of children's and youth theater. Under her leadership, the reception behavior of children and adolescents was researched in extensive, long-term studies that met strict social science standards.

In 1983 she completed her doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on “Children in the theater - a reception-psychological investigation”, and in 1991 she completed her habilitation with the work “Fairy tales - readings by children. An empirical study ”.

After moving to the Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen Darmstadt (1992) and the University of the Arts Berlin (1993), research on fairy tales and myths as well as artistic storytelling formed the focus of her teaching and research activities.

Act

Kristin Wardetzky was a member of the jury and the board of trustees for several years. a. from 1992 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2005 at the Children's and Youth Theater Center Frankfurt / Main.

From 1999 to 2003 and from 2009 to 2015 Kristin Wardetzky was chairwoman of the association “Community for the Promotion of Children's and Young Adult Literature eV” (see LesArt ).

In 2001 she founded the storytelling theater “FabulaDrama” with four of her former students, and in 2007 the association “Erzählkunst e. V. ”and the first open narrative stage in Berlin.

She is the initiator and developer of numerous narrative theater projects in cultural education. From 2005 to 2007 Wardetzky was the initiator of the pilot project “Speechless?” To promote the language skills of children with a migration background. In 2007 the project was awarded the special prize of the jury of the 'Children to Olympus' competition. From the end of 2008 the project will be further developed [now together with Sabine Kolbe] into 'ErzählZeit'. In 2012/13 it was included in the regular funding of the Berlin Senate for Education, Youth and Family and received the prize in the nationwide competition “Ideas for the Republic of Education”.

In 2009/2010 she conceived and initiated the certificate course "Artistic Narration - Storytelling in Art and Education" at the Berlin Career Center College of the Berlin University of the Arts.

In addition to her extensive publication activities, Kristin Wardetzky is busy giving lectures in the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad (including Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, USA, Canada).

Wardetzkys scientific and educational theater premature legacy is managed by the German Archive for Theater Education (DATP).

Kristin Wardetzky has been a member of the board of the Märchen-Stiftung Walter Kahn and honorary chairwoman of the Erzählkunst eV association since 2018

Prizes and awards

Works

Monographs

  • Jump in depth, conversations with children. Berlin 1990.
  • Fairy tales - readings by children. Berlin / Bern et al. 1992.
  • with Jürgen Kirschner: Children in the theater. Series of publications by the Federal Association for Cultural Youth Education, Vol. 25, 1993.
  • Project storytelling. Hohengehren 2007.
  • with Christiane Weigel: Speechless? Storytelling in an intercultural context. Experience from a primary school. Hohengehren 2010².
  • Arrive. About the pleasure in the narrative mediation of language and culture. kopaed, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86736-526-0 .

Editor

  • with Helga Zitlsperger: Fairy tales in teaching and education today. Hohengehren 1997.
  • with Hubert Ivo: ... but later days are the wisest as witnesses. On literary-aesthetic education in political change. Berlin 1997.
  • with Helge Gerndt: The art of storytelling. Berlin / Brandenburg 2002.
  • with Gundel Mattenklott: Metamorphoses of the fairy tale. Hohengehren 2005.
  • with Nikola Hübsch: time for stories. Storytelling in Cultural Education. Hohengehren 2017.

Collective works (excerpt)

  • Narrative theater . In: Koch, G. / Streisand, M. (ed.): Dictionary of theater pedagogy. Berlin / Milow 2003, pp. 90-91-
  • Fairy tale . In: Steinlein, R. / Strobel, H. / Kramer, T. (Hg.): Handbook of children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990. Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, columns 555–628.
  • Slave language. Fairy tales and fables in repressive social systems. In: Plath, M. / Mannhaupt, G. (ed.): Children - Reading - Literature. Hohengehren 2008, pp. 179-293.
  • Pictures of explosiveness . Storytelling as a theatrical act in school. In: Schneider, W. (ed.): Theater and school. A handbook on arts education. Bielefeld 2009, pp. 317–331.
  • Grimms' fairy tales on Berlin theaters 1844 - 1990 . In: Pohlmann, C. / Friemel, B. (ed.): Little Red Riding Hood comes from Berlin! Exhibition catalog Berlin State Library 2012, pp. 178–202.
  • Storytelling . In: Bockhorst, H. / Reinwand, V.-I. / Zacharias, W. (ed.): Handbuch Kulturelle Bildung. Munich 2012, pp. 485-487.
  • The fairy tale or the brilliance of the inconspicuous . In: Rora, C. / Roszak, S. (eds.): Aesthetics of the inconspicuous. Approaches from the perspectives of the arts, philosophy and aesthetic education. Oberhausen 2013, pp. 155–168.
  • Oral incubation period . About listening to fairy tales. In: Dehn, M. / Merklinger, D. (Ed.): Tell - read aloud - encourage browsing. Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 47–56.
  • The other look . Reception research at children's and youth theaters. In: Schneider W. / Taube, G. (ed.): The children's and youth theater center in the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 195–207.
  • “... fire the fairy tales in the oven!” The fairy tale dispute in post-war Germany. In: Brinker-von der Heyde, C. / Ehrhardt, H. / Ewers, H.-H. / Inder, A. (ed.): Fairy tales, myths and modernity. 200 years of children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Vol. 2, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2015, pp. 847-873.
  • Storytelling and storytelling in the Odyssey . In: Janning, J. / Pecher, CM / Richter, K. (Ed.): Narrating in the process of social change. Hohengehren, 2015, pp. 17–34.
  • Forgetting - Remembering - Rewarding in the Odyssey . In: Forgetting and remembering in and with fairy tales. Research contributions from the world of fairy tales. Krummwisch bei Kiel 2019, pp. 152–169.
  • Thinking outside the box : storytelling is on the rise. In: Glasenapp, G. v./Pecher, CM / Giesa, F./Anker, M. (ed. :): Telling in words and pictures. Contributions to the theory and practice of children's and young people's literary narrative world. Hohengehren 2019, pp. 3–18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothee Nolte: Sex and Crime with Herakles, Der Tagesspiegel, August 21, 2012 ( online ).
  2. ^ UDK Berlin, certificate course "Artistic storytelling" ( online ).
  3. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Dr. Dr. Kristin Wardetzky on ziw.udk-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Wardetzky, Kristin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ranis