Prof. Dr. Sandra Umathum
Since April 2013 professor for theatre studies and dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Schauspielunst 'Ernst Busch'. She studied Theatre studies, Anglistics, Italianistics and Philosophy at the FU Berlin and University Vienna. 2000-2003 she was a research associate in the programme „Theatricality and the crisis of Representation“ at the FU (Free University) Berlin. 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries Collaborative Research Center. 2008-2010 she has been a member of the Interweaving Performance Cultures International Research Center at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2007 to 2010 she was a member of the GIF-Project „Poetics and Politics of the Future“ (cooperation FU Berlin / Tel Aviv University). In 2008 she completed her dissertation on intersubjective experiences in contemporary exhibition art, published as „Kunst als Aufführungserfahrung“ (Transcript, 2011). 2010 to 2012 she was visiting professor for Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig.
From 1998 to 2002 she collaborated in various projects of Christoph Schlingensief („Chance 2000“, „Bitte liebt Österreich!“, „Hamlet“). 2007 she was an assistant of Tino Sehgal for the exhibition „This situation“ at Hamburger Bahnhof berlin. She has written numerous articles and coedited various books on theatrical and performative phenomena. (Co-editor of a.o. „Schlingensiefs Nazis Rein / Torsten Lemmer in Nazis Raus“ (Suhrkamp, 2003); „Carl Hegemann: Plädoyer für die unglückliche Liebe. Texte über Paradoxien des Theaters“ (Theater der Zeit, 2005); „Auf der Schwelle. Kunst, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen“ (together with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Robert Sollich, Matthias Warstat – Fink, 2005).
Main research: relations between theatre, performance and visual arts, political dimensions of the aesthetic, theorie and aesthetic of contemporary theatre and performance, contemporary dramaturgical practices.
Since April 2013 professor for theatre studies and dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Schauspielunst 'Ernst Busch'. She studied Theatre studies, Anglistics, Italianistics and Philosophy at the FU Berlin and University Vienna. 2000-2003 she was a research associate in the programme „Theatricality and the crisis of Representation“ at the FU (Free University) Berlin. 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries Collaborative Research Center. 2008-2010 she has been a member of the Interweaving Performance Cultures International Research Center at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2007 to 2010 she was a member of the GIF-Project „Poetics and Politics of the Future“ (cooperation FU Berlin / Tel Aviv University). In 2008 she completed her dissertation on intersubjective experiences in contemporary exhibition art, published as „Kunst als Aufführungserfahrung“ (Transcript, 2011). 2010 to 2012 she was visiting professor for Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig.
From 1998 to 2002 she collaborated in various projects of Christoph Schlingensief („Chance 2000“, „Bitte liebt Österreich!“, „Hamlet“). 2007 she was an assistant of Tino Sehgal for the exhibition „This situation“ at Hamburger Bahnhof berlin. She has written numerous articles and coedited various books on theatrical and performative phenomena. (Co-editor of a.o. „Schlingensiefs Nazis Rein / Torsten Lemmer in Nazis Raus“ (Suhrkamp, 2003); „Carl Hegemann: Plädoyer für die unglückliche Liebe. Texte über Paradoxien des Theaters“ (Theater der Zeit, 2005); „Auf der Schwelle. Kunst, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen“ (together with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Robert Sollich, Matthias Warstat – Fink, 2005).
Main research: relations between theatre, performance and visual arts, political dimensions of the aesthetic, theorie and aesthetic of contemporary theatre and performance, contemporary dramaturgical practices.