Univ. Prof.ⁱⁿ Ulrike Hatzer

Ulrike Hatzer is a theatre director, concept developer and lecturer. She completed her training at the LMU Munich (philosophy, theatre studies, theatre pedagogy) and at Trinity College Dublin (theatre directing), as well as working as an assistant director with Robert Wilson, Vicco von Bülow and Reza Abdoh, among others.
 Her first engagements took her to the independent scene – Micor Opera Munich, Kampnagel Hamburg and others, as well as to the stages of the Altenburg-Gera Theatre, where she built up the TheaterFABRIK Gera, which still exists today.

As a director, she has staged productions at various German-speaking theatres, including Munich, Gera, Potsdam, Bonn, Duisburg, Braunschweig and in the field of professional children’s and youth theatre.

As a concept developer, she has been inventing participatory formats with and for cities/regions and their populations for years, including “Hotel Sorge. Zu Besuch in der eigenen Stadt.‘, 2005 in Gera, ’Von Schlössern und Schlaatzen‘, 2009 in Potsdam, and since 2010 the ’Stadt-Theater” at the Staatstheater Braunschweig in which residents perform, question and develop their city.

At the Staatstheater Braunschweig, she recently worked with actors on the research theatre ‘Nebenan’, which sheds light on the events in a special building (AOK – Haus) in March ’33 and is also performed in this building, as well as the development project ‘Freiheit Gleichheit Obergrenze’ with everyday experts, judges, police officers, migrants, refugees, young activists and preservationists.
Guest lectureships and teaching assignments have taken her to LMU Munich, UdK Berlin and HMT Leipzig. Since 2010, she has been entrusted with the development and implementation of the ‘Expert Theatre’ training focus for directing students at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

She develops discussion formats and feedback structures, e.g. for the Theatertreffen der Jugend (2010-2016) in Berlin, or the Kindertheaterfestival 2016 in Leipzig, which she also moderates and modifies for other festivals and symposia.

She has been a jury member for various festivals, awards and scholarships, including the Theatertreffen der Jugend der Berliner Festspiele 2010-2016 and the Kinder- und Jugendtheaterpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2014, and curates and organises cultural events.

Since 2014, she has been a member of ‘Stadt als Campus e.V.’, an initiative that designs and implements interdisciplinary urban development and urban activation projects on behalf of, for example, the Federal Ministry of Construction, the German Association of Cities and regional authorities.

In addition to many invitations to national and international festivals, her most important awards include the performance prize at the 2004 German Children’s Theatre Award for ‘Katharina Katharina im Gänsespiel’ by Heleen Verburg with THEATERfabrik at the Theater Altenburg-Gera, the invitation to the Mühlheim Theatre Days in 2007 and the 2008 audience award from ‘Westwind – NRW Children’s and Youth Festival’ for ‘Wir alle für immer zusammen’ (We Are All Together Forever) with the Theater Marabou in Bonn, and the ‘Salzburg Prize’ from the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg for ‘Salz. Erkundungen der Wirklichkeit’ (Salt. Explorations of Reality) with the acting and directing department of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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