Liz Rech

Elisabeth Ursula "Liz" Rech (* 1975 in Munich ) is a German dramaturge , director and performer who works in the border area between theater , performance and installation .

Life

Liz Rech first studied drama, social psychology and modern German literature at the Bavarian Theater Academy .

After you have completed your studies u. a. worked as assistant director at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin , she studied drama for one year at the “Conservatoire D'Art Dramatique” in Avignon / France in 1998 ; then she resumed her studies in Munich. During this time, the first directorial work was already done ( attacks on Anne by Martin Crimp 2000, Brothers + Sisters by Olivier Cadiot 2001), almost all of which can be assigned to the area of site specific theater and have already integrated installation elements.

After graduating as a graduate dramaturge in 2001, she began studying directing at the Institute for Drama Theater Directing at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . There she studied a. a. with Sandra Strunz, Falk Richter and Andreas Kriegenburg .

Since 2007 she has realized numerous projects in the border area between drama theater and performance (ABOUT / RESTE / Staatstheater Stuttgart 2006; BASTARD. WAHLIDENTITÄTEN / Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg 2008). In addition, work on video and installation projects (MOUTH / MUND (2006); TAPE 1-4 (2007); DRESSED_TO_KILL (2008)). In addition to projects in the site-specific context, she has recently also been working in the intercultural area. She worked u. a. with the directors Gerardo Naumann from Buenos Aires and Tobias Rausch from lunatiks produktion Berlin, the choreographer Antoine Effroy (Hamburg), and the director Sylvi Kretzschmar (Hamburg, Vienna).

Since 2009 she has been part of the artists' initiative “Come in the gangs” in the Gängeviertel / Hamburg; In this context, she realized numerous interventions and performative actions, including MOVING WALLS (2009), GANGARTEN (2010), DU LÜGST! DELUXE (2010), UTOPIAN GARDEN (2010), SUNDAY SALON # 1 (2010), "ROOM IN THE SPACE" (2010), VACANCY PERFORMANCE (Sunday Salon # 4, 2010), SUNDAY SALON # 5 on the topic of LIGHT (2011), Sunday Salon # 9 on FLIGHT (2013), Sonntagssalon # 12 SLEEPING SALON (2015). She is co-founder of the Free Rehearsal Stage in the Gängeviertel, a self-organized rehearsal room collective in the FABRIQUE in Hamburg's Gängeviertel.

Since 2010 she has been part of the international artist network “sweet and tender collaborations”; The TREFFEN TOTAL collaborative network emerged from the Total 2010 meeting. Since then there have been several other meetings in Hamburg: Treffen Total Lokal (Kampnagel 2014), Treffen Total 2010 (Tanzplan Hamburg), Treffen Total 2018 (Tanzplan Hamburg).

Since 2013 she has been working in the agile prop collective Schwabinggrad Ballett (including Performances WE ARE EVIDENCE OF WAR , Wiener Festwochen 2014; PLATZ DER UNCHALLEN LÖSUNGEN II: Europa der Kommenden / how to arrive to stay , Park Fiction Hamburg 2014; CHÖRE DER COMING , Live Art Festival, Kampnagel 2015; CHOIRS OF THE ARCHOMENEN. INDISCRETE PLACE SURVEY , HAU, Berlin 2017)

Artistic research

Since 2015 she has been doing research at the artistic-scientific graduate college PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP in Hamburg on the subject of “PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP - ASSEMBLY IN (THE) MOVEMENT. The bodies of the citizens and their movements in space ”. The graduate college is supported by a cooperation between the HafenCity University (HCU) / Metropolis Culture Department, the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) / Design Department and two research-oriented, non-university cultural institutions, the research theater / FUNDUS THEATER and K3 - Center for Choreography | Dance plan Hamburg. In this context, the artistic research project 〉〉〉〉〉〉 MARCHING SESSION I - VI was presented. _____________ 〉〉〉〉〉 Interactive (lecture) performance for fellow runners and step makers. as part of the research training group's project week (April 2016). In September 2017 the second research project 〉〉〉〉〉〉 HALLO, MARSCH! ________ 〉〉〉〉. Collective walking performance for fellow runners and step makers. As a participatory performance, the project was carried out as part of the Hallo Festspiele as a walking performance from the Berliner Tor to the old Bille power plant in Hammerbrook / Hamburg.

Teaching

In 2009/2010 she taught on the subject of lecture performance in the Performance Studies course at the University of Bremen. From 2007 to 2014 she taught theater as part of the Studium Generale at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and since 2016 she has been at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT). In addition, she regularly leads theater workshops and gives workshops nationwide as part of teacher training for the subject of performing games.

Stagings & Performances

1997 - A dream game by August Strindberg in Munich
2000 - Exhibition: attempts on her life / Attacks on Anne von Martin Crimp in Munich
2001 - Sisters + Brothers of Olivier Cadiot ( DSE ) in the former McGraw barracks
2003 - dirty laundry? with texts by Xavier Durringer in Hamburg
2004 - The Persians / Bambiland with texts by Aischylos / Elfriede Jelinek in the Zeisehallen in Hamburg
2004 - Leviathan / We will no longer act after Dea Loher in Hamburg
2005 - Dépannage / breakdown assistance by Pauline Sales in the painting room of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2005 - Mickey the night watchman of Natacha de Pontcharra at the “wildfire” festival of the SchauspielKiel.
2006 - Come on you boys in brown (FC St. Pauli version of Stand up if you are Schalke ) by Jörg-Menke Peitzmeier, Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg.
2006 - ABOUT / REMAINS performance project as part of the “KAUFEN!” Festival at the State Theater Stuttgart (guest performance in the Malersaal of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg at “FINALE 06”)
2008 - BASTARD. Elective Identities - A research project in the Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg
2010 - GANG / ARTEN - interactive walking performance as part of "Explosion - a theatrical theater party" in the Malersaal / Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg .
2010 - YOU LIE! Deluxe - Performance in Hamburg's Gängeviertel as part of “You are lying” / Thalia Theater Hamburg .
2010 - Lecture Performance PINK NOISE / Filter and Noise: In Search of Lost Attention / Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bremen.
2010 - Performative research project on the topic of home. Lying. Remembrance in the Schützenhof in Bremen
2010 - Vacancy performance as part of the Haifischbar / Hamburger Schauspielhaus.
2011 - BLOGOSPHERE IRAQ - research project as part of the Spieltriebe Festival 2011 / Osnabrück
2011 - FALL - interdisciplinary project in collaboration with the choreographer Antoine Effroy and the video artist Claudia Liekham (Fundbureau, Hamburg)
2013 - Sunday salon # 9 on FLIGHT
2014 - WE ARE EVIDENCE OF WAR (Schwabinggrad Ballett) as part of the Wiener Festwochen
2015 - CHOIRS OF THE COMING (Schwabinggrad Ballet), Live Art Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg
2015 - RE °°° production - of time bombs, sperm donors and super mothers. at the Rostock Volkstheater
2016 - 〉〉〉〉〉〉 MARCHING SESSION I - VI. _____________ 〉〉〉〉〉 Interactive (lecture) performance for fellow runners and step makers. in the K3 - Center for Choreography, Hamburg (as part of the Graduate School Performing Citizenship)
2017 - 〉〉〉〉〉〉 HELLO, MARCH! ________ 〉〉〉〉. Collective walking performance for fellow runners and step makers. (Cooperation between the Hallo Festspiele and k3)
2017 - CHOIRS OF THE ARRIVAL. INDISCRETE SPACE SURVEY (Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati), HAU, Berlin

Installations and interventions

2006 - MUND / MOUTH (Beckett's Not I meets ATEM by Franz Wassermann) Interactive video installation in collaboration with Stefan Goetsch. Performance as part of "Beckett in Town" at Kampnagel , Hamburg
2007 - TAPE 1-4 - Installation & Invisible Theater, Rathausmarkt Hamburg .
2008 - dressed to kill I-IV - installation as part of PERFORMING CRIME - Archive of Crime (lunatiks produktion) / Bremen
2009 - Moving Wall (s) - Walking performance in downtown Hamburg on the occasion of the artistic occupation of Hamburg's Gängeviertel.
2010 - Utopian Garden - Installation and performative planting action in Hamburg's Gängeviertel.
2012 - Blámastaðurinn / BLAUER PLATZ (video work in cooperation with the artist Anna Steinert) in Ísafjordur / Iceland
2014 - PLACE OF UNCHALLEN SOLUTIONS II: Europe of the Coming / how to arrive to stay (Schwabinggrad Ballett), Park Fiction Hamburg

Publications

Rech, Liz: Performing Citizenship: Gathering (in the) Movement. The Choreographic Format of Circle Dancing and the Round Dance as a Matrix of Collective Action in the Context of Political Assemblies, Protests and Occupations.- In: Hildebrandt, P., Evert, K., Peters, S., Schaub, M., Wildner, K., Ziemer, G. (Eds.): Performing Citizenship - Bodies, Agencies, Limitations. London 2019 (Palgrave). ISBN 978-3-319-97502-3 ( online )
Rech, Liz: Body and Public - on the Performative Dimension of Urban Action. - In: Huffschmid, A .; Lanz, S .; Wildner, K. (Ed.): MetroZones. School for Urban Action ( Dossier 2015 ). In cooperation with dock europe. Funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. P. 76 ff
Secret Agency / Liz Rech / Martin Jörg Schäfer / Vassilis Tsianos (eds.): The Art of Being Many: A Reader for an Assembly of Assemblies. Pinneberg 2014
Rech, Liz: "Bastard. Elective Identities ". A research project. - In: Sting, W .; Koehler, N .; Hoffmann, K .; White, W .; Grießbach, D. (Ed.): Irritation and mediation. Theater in an intercultural and multi-religious society. Berlin, Lit Verlag 2010 (Series: Scena Contributions to Theater and Religion, Vol. 4). P. 167 ff. ISBN 978-3-643-10065-8

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personal data
SURNAME	Right, Liz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rech, Elisabeth Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich