Annemie Vanackere

Last updated

Annemie Vanackere (born 1966 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian festival curator and theatre director. [1] Since 2012, she has been the artistic director and managing director of the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. [2]

Contents

Life

Worldwide reading for Ashraf Fayadh (2016) at Hebbel am Ufer (Annemie Vanackere outside left)) Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14, 2016, 7.30 p.m., at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.jpg
Worldwide reading for Ashraf Fayadh (2016) at Hebbel am Ufer (Annemie Vanackere outside left))

Vanackere studied theatre and cinema for one year in Leuven and philosophy in Leuven and Paris. [3] where she also attended seminars by Jacques Derrida at the Sorbonne. [4] She worked as a production manager before taking over as artistic director of the Nieuwpoorttheater in Ghent in 1993. From 1995 to 2011, she was employed at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, since 2001 as artistic co-director as well as director of the Productiehuis Rotterdam, which is affiliated to the Schouwburg. [5] Until 2011, Vanackere was artistic director of the international theatre, dance and performance festival in Rotterdam, "De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg", which she co-founded in 2001.

In February 2012, Vanackere moved to Berlin [6] and took over as artistic director and managing director of the Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) there in September. Her contract was extended twice during her directorship and is currently limited until the end of August 2025. [7] [8] [9] In 2020, Vanackere was one of the initiators of the Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit  [ de ].

Vanackere is a member of the advisory board of the Einstein Stiftung Berlin  [ de ]. [10]

Publications

As editor

Films

As co-producer

Related Research Articles

Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive works. It has publicly declared its goal as the desire to develop innovative performances using original text, technology, and experimental methods of communication.

The Zodiak Free Arts Lab, sometimes known as the "Zodiak Club" or "Zodiac Club", was a short-lived but highly influential experimental live music venue, founded in the then West Berlin in spring 1968 by German artists/musicians Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011) and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, together with Boris Schaak (1942–2012).

Michael Laub is an avant-garde stage director and contemporary dance choreographer. His work has notably been shown at the Venice Biennale of 1984, the Festival d'Avignon of 2005, the Burgtheater in 2011, and several times at ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival and Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin. He has often been described as a minimalist and "one of the founding fathers of anti-illusionist theater".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kornél Mundruczó</span> Hungarian film director

Kornél Mundruczó is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 18 short and feature films between 1998 and 2020. His film Johanna was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The production of White God, another of his full-length films, was supported by the Hungarian Film Fund. It won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was screened in the Spotlight section of Sundance Film Festival in 2015.

The Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) is a theater and international performance center based in Berlin. It was founded by combining three theaters in Kreuzberg, Berlin: Hebbel Theater, Theater am Halleschen Ufer and Theater am Ufer.

zeitraumexit is an artist centre in Mannheim. The non-profit association and independent institution organizes, curates and (co-)produces exhibitions, performances, theatre, video art and installations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angela Richter</span>

Angela Richter is a German–Croatian theatre director and author.

Sebastian Fischer was a German actor. He has also worked frequently as a voice actor, dubbing foreign-language films for release in Germany. The corner building is fully integrated into the row of houses at today's Stresemannstrasse 29 and represents the first work of a total of six other Berlin theater buildings by the architect. Together with the Theater am Halleschen Ufer and the Theater am Ufer, the Hebbel Theater has formed the Berlin theater institution Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) since 2003.

Berlinale Talents, formerly Berlinale Talent Campus, is the talent development programme of the Berlin International Film Festival. An annual summit and networking platform for 200 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series, the events take place in February at the three venues of HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Berlinale Talents is organized and directed by Florian Weghorn as programme manager and Christine Tröstrum as project manager.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Proton Theatre</span>

Proton Theatre is an independent company based in Hungary. It was founded in 2009 and is operating according to the production concept shaped by Kornél Mundruczó and Dóra Büki. The virtual artistic group is organized around the director's independent productions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jefta van Dinther</span> Dutch-Swedish choreographer and dancer

Jefta van Dinther is a Dutch-Swedish choreographer and dancer. Today van Dinther lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margarita Tsomou</span>

Margarita Tsomou is a Greek-German dramaturgist, curator, performance artist, dancer and activist. She is an editor of pop feminist Missy Magazine, professor for contemporary theatre praxis at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and curator for theory and discourse at theatre and performance center Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isabelle Schad</span> German dancer and choreographer (born 1970)

Isabelle Schad is a German dancer and choreographer.

The Berliner Kammeroper was a Berlin opera company with changing venues, founded in 1981 by Henry Akina and Brynmor Jones.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hebbel-Theater</span> German theatre

The Hebbel-Theater is a historic theatre building for plays in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany. It has been a venue of the company Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) from 2003.

Tanz im August is an annual festival for contemporary dance in Berlin. It was founded by Nele Hertling in West Berlin in 1988, and is now presented by the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) theatre company on various stages in Berlin. It presents companies from all over the world with their new choreography, aesthetics and formats, new projects by Berlin artists, collaboration with international guests, and co-production for world premieres and German premieres. Virve Sutinen has been artistic director from 2014.

Bettina Masuch is a German dramaturg and theatre director as well as artistic director at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthias Lilienthal</span> German dramaturge and theatre director

Matthias Lilienthal is a German dramaturge and theatre director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Virve Sutinen</span> Swedish dancer and theatre director

Virve Katri Maria Sutinen was director of the Dansens hus in Stockholm between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2013 and artistic director of Tanz im August Berlin since 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">FAFSWAG</span> Arts collective

FAFSWAG is an arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQI+ artists and activists founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. They explore and celebrate the unique identity of gender fluid Pacific people and LGBTQI+ communities in multi-disciplinary art forms. In 2020 FAFSWAG was awarded an Arts Laureate from the New Zealand Arts Foundation, and they also represented New Zealand at the Biennale of Sydney.

References

  1. ↑ Stefan Kirschner (23 September 2018). "Sonntagsspaziergang: Annemie Vanackere ist die Frau mit den großen Plänen". morgenpost.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Christine Wahl (30 October 2012). "Theater und Bühne in Berlin: Porträt der neuen HAU-Chefin Annemie Vanackere". tip-berlin.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Kristin Oswald (23 April 2018). "Führung in der Kulturmanagement-Praxis: Vom Menschen aus Denken Teil II". kulturmanagement.net. KM Kulturmanagement Network. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lexikon: Vanackere, Annemie". nachtkritik.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Anke Dürr (31 October 2012). ""Hebbel am Ufer" wiedereröffnet: Müde könnt ihr später sein!". spiegel.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  6. ↑ Dirk Pilz (21 June 2012). "Interview mit Hau-Chefin Annemie Vanackere: Ich habe einen anderen Stil". fr.de – Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Annemie Vanackere verlängert Vertrag am Berliner HAU". berlin.de. Land Berlin. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  8. ↑ Simone Kaempf (16 March 2021). "Berlin: Annemie Vanackere verlängert am HAU". nachtkritik.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Presseerklärung des HAU, hebbel-am-ufer.de, 16 March 2021, retrieved 15 June 2021
  10. ↑ "Stiftung – Beirat: Annemie Vanackere". einsteinfoundation.de. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.