Margarita Tsomou

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Margarita Tsomou, 2015

Myropi-Margarita Tsomou (born July 2, 1977 in Thessaloniki ) is a German-Greek cultural and theater scholar , dramaturge , curator , dancer , performance artist and activist . She is one of the editors of the pop feminist Missy Magazine . Since 2019 she has been professor for contemporary theater practice at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and curator for theory and discourse at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin .

Life and career

In her childhood and youth, Tsomou received professional dance and ballet training at the John Cranko Ballet School in Stuttgart and at the Royal Academy of Dance in Athens . From 1999 to 2005 she studied applied cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg . In 2018, Tsomou was awarded a Dr. med. At HafenCity University Hamburg as part of the artistic-scientific graduate school “Assembly and Participation: Urban Public Spheres and Performative Arts”. phil. PhD. She investigated the action and protest practices, assembly and resistance forms of the Greek protest movement of the indignant, Aganaktismenoi , on Syntagma Square in Athens in 2011.

Tsomou is best known for her curatorial and dramaturgical work at numerous art and cultural institutions and her artistic, dance and political performance actions. In addition, she regularly takes part in political and artistic panel discussions as a speaker and moderator . In October 2018 she organized the stage program of the Indivisible demonstration with almost 250,000 participants in Berlin. She is part of the artistic-activist group Schwabinggrad Ballett . In 2017 she took part as an artist and curator at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. Since January 2019 she has been the curator for theory and discourse at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. In October 2019, she accepted the professorship for contemporary theater practice at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .

She has also worked as a curator and dramaturge with the Maxim-Gorki-Theater , Kampnagel Hamburg , the Volksbühne Berlin , House of World Cultures , the Berlin Festival , the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Goethe Institute Athens, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Onassis Cultural Foundation Athens together. It is also part of the Berlin publishing house b books .

Tsomou works primarily on the theory and practice of performance (art) , dramaturgy , public protest and action practices, contemporary dance and body awareness, queer feminism and sexuality , democratic theory and political aesthetics. In addition, she also writes for newspapers, feature pages and cultural and radio magazines and the like. a. for the time , taz , Spex , Frankfurter Rundschau , WDR and SWR .

Dramaturgical, curatorial and artistic work

  • Witches, TanzFaktur, Cologne 2019.
  • Blue Moon, Kampnagel Hamburg, tanz Faktur Cologne, Ballhaus Ost Berlin 2018.
  • Heimatphantasien - on the boom of the concepts of home and nation, International Summer Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, 2018.
  • Apatride Society as part of the discursive program by Paul B. Preciado , documenta 14, Athens, 2017.
  • 34 Exercises of Freedom: # 31 Voices of Trans and Queer Politics in the Mediterranean, documenta 14, Athens, 2017.
  • Hyperion / Higher States, Part 2 (with Bernhard Siebert), Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, 2017
  • Fantasies That Matter. Images of Sex Work in Media and Art (with Eike Wittrock), Kampnagel Hamburg, 2014.

Publications

  • (2016): “Three images on post-representative politics of the“ Aganaktismenoi ”on the occupation of the Athens Parliament Square 2011”, in: Agridopoulos, Aristotelis / Papagiannopoulos, Ilias (ed.): Greece in a European context. Crisis and crisis discourses, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 319-330.
  • (2016): “There is no need for a coup in colonies. On the question of the neo-colonial in the context of the Greek crisis ”, online at http://demokratieplus.de/margarita-tsomou-in-kolonien-brauch-es-keinen-staatsstreich/ , (last accessed August 4, 2019).
  • with Tsianos, Vassilis (2015): "The Art of Being Many", in: Malzacher, Florian (ed.), Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the political theater of today, Berlin: Alexander Verlag, pp. 92-103.
  • (2014): “The occupied Syntagma square 2011: Body and performativity in the political alphabet of the indignant”, in: Burri, Regula Valérie / Evert, Kerstin / Sibylle, Peters / Pilkington, Esther / Ziemer, Gesa (eds.): Assembly and participation . Urban publics and performative arts, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 113–141.
  • (2014): "Last Exit. On the upswing of solidarity economies in Greece of the crisis ”, in: WestEnd. New Journal for Social Research 11, Frankfurt a. M .: Campus, pp. 79-92.
  • (2011): "Athens: Metropolitan Blockade - Real Democracy", with Vassilis Tsianos and Dimitris Papadopoulos online at http://eipcp.net/transversal/1011/ptt/en.html , (last accessed August 16, 2019).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Myropi-Margarita Tsomou: Between representation criticism , self-representation and non-representative politics: the forms of action of the Aganaktismenoi on Syntagma Square, Athens 2011 . 2018 ( online [accessed August 4, 2019]).
  2. ↑ https://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/de/personensuche/az-item/tsomou-myropi-margarita/
  3. ↑ https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/ueber-uns/team/
  4. ^ A b c Berliner Festspiele: Margarita Tsomou - Berliner Festspiele. Accessed August 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://www.documenta14.de/de/calendar/1022/-31-voices-of-trans-and-queer-politics-in-the-mediterranean
  6. ↑ About us | Missy Magazine. Retrieved on August 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Tsomou, Margarita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsomou, Myropi Margarita (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek cultural and theater scholar, dramaturge, curator, dancer, performance artist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki