Marietta Piekenbrock

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Marietta Piekenbrock (2013)

Marietta Piekenbrock (* 1964 in Westphalia ) is a German curator , dramaturge , author and cultural manager . In her projects, she anchors theater, dance, performance, music, fine arts and architecture in institutional contexts and in urban space .

Career

Marietta Piekenbrock studied theater studies, philosophy, art history and comparative literature in Aix-en-Provence, Munich and Paris from 1984 to 1991 . Her master's thesis Marguerite Duras : Quel'qu'un qui parle, c'est une image describes the French author and director as a source of inspiration for an advanced aesthetic of the performative. During her studies, she worked as an assistant director, dramaturge and editor for the Bavarian State Theater in Munich.

In the following years she was responsible for translations, exhibitions, installations and artist books in collaboration with theaters, museums, galleries, archives and publishers. She was a co-author of the theater dictionary. People . From 2000 she worked as a freelance journalist for various daily newspapers ( Münchner Merkur , Frankfurter Rundschau ) and magazines, from 2003 as a theater critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

From 2004 onwards she worked for the Ruhrtriennale as a program and production dramaturge. In 2007 she moved to the management team of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture as program director for music, theater, dance and performance. She organized the 2nd Dance Education Biennial , the cooperation project between the five theaters in the Ruhr area, Odyssey Europe , René Pollesch's Die Ruhrtrilogie , Theater der Welt (director: Frie Leysen), Rimini Protokoll Promethiade . Together with the conductor Steven Sloane , she conceived the Henze project , a twelve-month retrospective during which Gisela! , Henze's last opera was premiered. Other projects were the Day of Song in the Veltins Arena and the performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony of the Thousand in the Kraftzentrale Duisburg. Heiner Goebbels hired her in 2011 as head dramaturge for the Ruhrtriennale 2012–2014. With the award-winning no education series , she started a discourse on the relationship between “art, children and education”.

From 2013 to 2016 she took on a teaching position at the University of Witten / Herdecke at the Faculty for Cultural Reflection. In 2015 she appointed Chris Dercon as program director at the Volksbühne Berlin . Until the end of the 2018 season, she will be responsible for expanding the Volksbühne's programmatic perspective into an interdisciplinary and international one, as well as opening a satellite theater at the former Tempelhof Airport.

Since then, Marietta Piekenbrock has been advising cultural institutions at home and abroad. For Nuremberg's application as European Capital of Culture N2025 , she developed perspectives for the transformation of the former Nazi party rally grounds into a universal stage for culture and art. For 2021 she is curating an interdisciplinary exhibition on the transformative power of dance in art and society at Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Marietta Piekenbrock lives in Berlin and Munich. She is married to the art historian Mario von Lüttichau . The couple has six adult children.

Publications (selection)

  • Therese Giehse 1898–1998. Exhibition catalog, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-9806164-0-1 .
  • with Christine Dössel: Theater Lexicon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. Edited by CB Sucher. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Theater year Germany Austria Switzerland. 36th Theatertreffen Berlin 1999. Published by Berliner Festspiele, Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich, 3sat, Mainz, Goethe-Institut, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2137-4 .
  • Poet's handwriting. Exhibition catalog. Edited by E. Tworek and M. Piekenbrock. Monacensia literature archive. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-936738-08-4 .
  • What life is like The Hasenbergl district of Munich stands for the city's social losers - the Münchner Kammerspiele exude great culture. In: Madame , November 2004. Reprinted in: Münchner Kammerspiele: Bunnyhill - A state foundation. Munich 2005
  • Odyssey Europe. Six plays and an odyssey through the intermediate world. In: Theater, Theater. Current pieces 2010. Edited by RUHR.2010, UB Carstensen and S. von Lieven. Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18540-5 .
  • City of Arts: Permanent Temporary. In: RUHR. 2010. The impossible capital of culture. Chronicle of a metropolis in the making. Published by RUHR. 2010. Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0363-0 .
  • Made in Belgium. Jan Lauwers deconstruction 07. In: The SPIELART Festival , ed. from Spielmotor München eV and Theater der Zeit. Berlin 2013.
  • Disputes in the measurement of cultural education: No Education! Impulse contribution to the question: Cultural education without intermediaries? kubi-online.de, June 2014.
  • walk in, work it, move on, hands up, come together! Choreographers make the conditions dance in museums. Between participation, party and choreographic protocol. In: New Realities. Yearbook of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts 2014/2015, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3512-6 .
  • We are our models, or progress depends on the unreasonable. In: wirsindunseremodelle.de, February 2015.
  • How the present transforms our history into a lesson. In: What to do with all the idealism. Theater Neumarkt Zurich 1966 - 2066. Published by Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2016.
  • Dance opens a mental space. About A Dancer's Day and 10,000 gestures. In conversation with Boris Charmatz. In: Volksbühne Berlin, September 2017 program.

Exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Wink: Ruhrtriennale. Interview with Stefanie Carp accessed on February 6, 2019

Web links

Commons : Marietta Piekenbrock  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Piekenbrock, Marietta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator, dramaturge, author and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Westphalia