Mirjam Strunk

Mirjam Strunk (* 1974 in Stuttgart ) is a German author and theater director.

Career

Mirjam Strunk studied applied cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences and performance art at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht (NL). Since 1998 she has been conceiving and realizing intercultural and interpretive theater projects with young people, foreigners and senior citizens . 1998–2000 “Heimathochelf” and “dreamlike” with the Turkish-German theater ensemble TDT, Hildesheim. 1999 "the art of observation", a project with theater students from the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences, the University of York (UK), Dartington College of arts (UK) and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht (NL). 2000 Project coordination of the international theater festival "Theaterformen" and "Faust I & II" (director: Peter Stein ) as part of the theater program of the Expo 2000 Hannover GmbH. 2001 commissioned the play and directing of the 4-part theater soap "Neubausiedlung Paradies" and in 2002 director "Dreier" by Jens Roselt at the Hildesheim City Theater . 2004 Director of the international production “work.out.international” (D, EST, NO, CH) for the European theater festival transeuropa 2003 , Hildesheim.

Since the 2005/06 season he has been working on the Essen theater . There she headed the first theater club for people aged 60 and over and developed the production “Alte Helden” with 25 senior citizens. In the 2006/07 season she co-directed “Liebe”, a project with young people from Essen-Katernberg and the “Old Heroes” from the theater production. In the 2007/08 season she worked with ten people from Burma, Bosnia, Germany, Iraq, Congo, Russia, Rwanda and Turkey for the theater evening “Refugees in Retirement”, which premiered in March 2008 in the “Casa”.

As a writer, she received a grant from the Wiesbaden Theater Biennale in 2004 . Her piece "Harz & Honig" was awarded a staged reading at the "Drama Cologne Authors' Competition" in 2004. In 2006 she wrote “almost like at home” for the Aachen theater and “true love - how much love can you believe” for the Krefeld children's and youth theater in 2006/07 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Strunk, Mirjam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart