Development and teaching of national and international degree programmes in theatre studies, dramaturgy, cultural studies and literary studies at the universities of Frankfurt, Hildesheim and Munich. Guest lectureships, among others at the Lancaster Institute of the Contemporary Arts (Lancaster University), and at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, as well as teaching workshops in the context of international festivals (Theaterbiennale, Theaterformen, KunstFestSpiele, Ruhrtriennale).
General Courses
Institute of Media, Theatre and Popular Culture, University of Hildesheim (Winter term 2013/2014 – Summer term 2018, Winter term 2020 – present)
- History, Herstory, Theirstory, Ourstory – Historiography and Aesthetic Practice (M.A. seminar, summer term 2025)
- Archival Practice and (Future) Historiography – Transformations of Theatrical Knowledge Systems (M.A. seminar, summer term 2023)
- Critical Aesthetic Practice (interdisciplinary lecture series, winter term 2022/2023)
- Performance Analysis (M.A. seminar, winter term 2020/2021)
- Theatre and Politics – from current debates to historical constellations: Theatre and race/ Imagined communities (B.A. seminar, winter term 2017/2018)
- Discourse and Dispositif – theatre studies (M.A. seminar, winter term 2017/2018)
- Scenography – history, theory, analysis (B.A. seminar, winter term 2016/2017)
- Scenography – spectator/space (M.A. seminar, summer term 2016)
- Negotiations between art and science. Concepts, methods, practices (M.A. seminar, summer term 2015), together with Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke
- Scenography – artistic forms between theatre, visual arts and media (M.A. seminar, summer term 2015)
- Dramaturgies of post-dramatic theatre forms – space, time, performance, media (B.A. seminar, winter term 2014/2015)
- Colloquium transeuropa (winter term 2014/2015, colloquium on the European festival for performative arts ‘transeuropa’ by the University of Hildesheim in the summer term 2015)
- On the Figure of the Spectator (B.A. seminar, summer semester 2014)
- Scenography – a Key Concept in Cultural Studies (M.A. seminar, summer semester 2014)
- Exam colloquium (KO, every semester since winter semester 2013/2014)
- Theatre before ‘Theatre’ – Theatre after ‘Theatre’ – Analogies between Pre- and Post-Dramatic Theatre (B.A. seminar, winter term 2013/2014)
- Dialogue in Theatre Theory and Practice (B.A. seminar, winter term 2013/2014)
- Staging Analysis (M.A. seminar, winter term 2013/2014)
Institute for Theatre Studies, LMU Munich (winter term 2018/2019)
- Colloquium in Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies (M.A. colloquium)
- Theatre on Tour: Travelogues as Theatre-Historiographical Material (M.A. seminar)
- Basic Course in Theatre Studies (B.A. seminar/lecture)
- Walter Benjamin: Translation, Criticism, Afterlife (B.A. seminar)
Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Hessian Theatre Academy and Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures (Summer Semester 2007-Summer Semester 2013)
- Colloquium in Dramaturgy (KO, regularly from summer term 2008, partly together with Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann)
- Problems of the Classical: Corneille, Molière, Racine (seminar, summer term 2013)
- The dialogue – an approach to essence and form (seminar, summer term 2013)
- Democratic design of coexistence – theatre, media, film (seminar, summer term 2013, teaching assignment at the Ludwigsburg University of Education)
- Theatre in the Early Modern and Late Modern Periods (seminar, winter term 2012)
- Theatre, Market and Audience II (seminar, summer term 2011)
- Erasmus Mundus Colloquium ‘Performing Arts’ (seminar, summer term 2011 and winter term 2010)
- Theatre, Market and Audience I (seminar, winter term 2010)
- Popular Culture in Contemporary Theatre (seminar summer term 2010)
- Forum Dramaturgy for the European Theatre Biennale (project, summer term 2010)
- Theatricality and Everyday Life (seminar, winter term 2009)
- Seminars on production analysis, together with Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann
- Analysis of a production/performance theory (winter term 2009)
- Analysis of a production at the Berlin Theatertreffen (summer term 2009)
- Analysis of a production/post-dramatic theatre (winter term 2008)
- Staging analysis of the European Theatre Biennale (summer term 2008)
- Theatre Anthropology (seminar, summer term 2009)
- Affect and Theatre (seminar, winter term 2008)
- Voltaire’s ‘contes philosophiques’ (seminar winter term 2007)
- Reading contemporary French theatre texts (seminar, winter term 2007)
- Theatre of the Enlightenment (seminar, summer term 2007)
Theory – practice teaching concepts (seminars with associated practical classes)
Summer term 2025
- History, Herstory, Theirstory, Ourstory – Historiography and Aesthetic Practice (M.A. seminar)
- Historiography and/as Artistic Practice (practical class)
Winter term 2023/2024
- Knowledge in Motion – Performing Arts in the Context of Travel, Migration and Cross-Border Mobility (M.A. seminar)
- Staging Travel Experiences: Moving Knowledge (practical class with a showcase of works)
Winter term 2021/2022
- Transnational Theatre Practice and Postcolonial Curating (B.A. seminar)
- Postcolonial Curating/BarCamp (practical class)
Winter term 2020/2021
- Dramaturgies of the Experiment: Circus, Dada, Vaudeville (M.A. seminar)
- Joker, Harlequin, Puck, Estragon & Co.: Clownesque Figures and/as a Dramaturgy of Acts (practical class with a showcase of works)
Summer term 2017
- Dramaturgy and/as criticism (B.A. seminar)
- Dramaturgy and/as criticism – (excursion to the festival Theaterformen)
- Module ‘Research-based Theatre Practice’, together with Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke
Winter term 2016/2017
- Parody and Subversion in Literature and Theatre (seminar), together with Dr. Frank Estelmann (Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Parody and Subversion – scenic works (practical class with a showcase of works)
Winter term 2015/2016
- Montage/Bricolage (M.A. seminar), together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Lange (Institute for Visual Arts and Art History, University of Hildesheim)
- Montage as a principle of dramaturgy (practical class with a showcase of works)
- Dramatic theatre. Reading, theory, concept (B.A. seminar)
- Text-Space/Space-Text: Molière and Racine, post-dramatic (practical class)
Summer term 2015
- Dramaturgies of post-dramatic theatre forms (M.A. seminar)
- Dramaturgy and/as criticism – Festival Theaterformen (excursion)
Winter term 2014/2015
- The Imagined Spectator – Methods of Theatre Historiography (M.A. seminar)
- Theatre Historiography and Archive Work (practical class /Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel)
Scenic and dramaturgical projects and works within the framework of university teaching and in cooperation with various institutions of the performing arts
Degree programmes in Scenic Arts and in Cultural Studies and Artistic Practice, University of Hildesheim
- ‘Death on the Nile 2’, a scenic project based on the novel Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, project semester 2024 on the topic ‘Alles im Fluss’, together with Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
- ‘Freitag/Robinson’, a scenic project based on Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), project semester 2022 on the topic ‘Mind the Gap’, together with Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
- ‘Assemblywomen’ – Athens, Bremen, Hildesheim; scenic project for the staging of the Assemblywoman in Bremen 1968/1969 on the occasion of the project semester 2018 on the topic ‘1968’, together with Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
- Making of… Project semester; festival dramaturgy, project semester 2016 on the topic of ‘Suspension’, together with Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
- ‘Celebration as waste: project management and curatorial practice’, project semester 2014 on the topic of ‘Waste’, together with Prof. Dr. Birgit Mandel and Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
Master’s programme in Dramaturgy, Hessian Theatre Academy (2008-2013)
Scenic project with the collective ‘redpark’ (transl./project, winter term 09/10)
Supervision and coaching of dramaturgy students in their respective internships and assistantships, project dramaturgies and dramaturgical advice on scenic works, internal and external study/final projects in cooperation with Schauspiel Frankfurt, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, among others
Workshops, mediation formats, festival campus programmes
Summer term 2023
- ‘Festivalcampus Niedersachsen: artistic-scientific encounters – exchange, mediation, documentation’ workshop, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, in cooperation with the University of Lüneburg, the HBK Braunschweig, the HMTM and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover
Summer term 2022
- ‘Rewriting history on stage: intersectional spaces and critical aesthetic practice’, workshop, Festivalcampus Niedersachsen, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, 26.05.-29.05.2022 in cooperation with the University of Lüneburg, the HBK Braunschweig, the HMTM and the Hochschule Hannover
Summer term 2018
- ‘Theatre and Travel – Cultural Encounters from Traveling Companies to International Festival Practices’, workshop, International Festival Campus of the RuhrTriennale
- ‘Zuschaukunst: Perception, Dramaturgies and Audience Conceptions’, workshop, Festivalcampus Niedersachsen, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, in cooperation with the University of Lüneburg, the HBK Braunschweig, the HMTM and the Hochschule Hannover
