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.

Seit 2014 ist sie Mitglied bei “Stadt als Campus e.V.”, einer Initiative, die interdisziplinär Stadtentwicklung und Stadtaktivierung im Auftrag, z.B. des Bundesbauministeriums, des deutschen Städtebunds und regionalen Verantwortungsträgern konzeptioniert und umsetzt.

Wichtigste Auszeichnungen waren, neben vielen Festivaleinladungen zu nationalen und internationalen Festivals, die Aufführungsprämie zum Deutschen Kindertheaterpreis 2004 für „Katharina Katharina im Gänsespiel“ von Heleen Verburg mit der THEATERfabrik am Theater Altenburg-Gera, die Einladung zu den Mühlheimer Theatertagen 2007 und der Publikumspreis 2008 von „Westwind – NRW Kinder- und Jugendfestival“ für „Wir alle für immer zusammen“ mit dem Theater Marabou in Bonn, und der „Salzburgpreis“ des Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg für „Salz. Erkundungen der Wirklichkeit“ mit der Abteilung Schauspiel und Regie des Mozarteums in Salzburg.