Our Guests
Joachim Fiebach
Prof. Joachim Fiebach, Prof. Emeritus Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin is currently Visiting Professor at the Institut der Theaterwissenschaft of the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Between 1968 – 1970 he was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts of the University College Dar es...
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Zsófia Balassa
teatrologist, organiser of the conference
Born in 1987, she graduated from the University of Pécs, receiving a BA and MA degree in Hungarian Language and Literature and Theatrology. At present she is a first year PhD student at the University of Pécs, receiver of a scholarship. She published...
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Joanna Biernacka (PL)
A theatre critic by profession, Graduate of Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In her professional life she cooperated with “Dziennik Polski”, a Cracow daily newspaper, and she was a part of the editorial staff of “Didaskalia” theatre magazine. Until June 2011 she worked as...
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Catherine Decastel (FR)
Catherine Decastel recently directed «I was in my house waiting for the rain to come” by Jean-Luc Lagarce at the Espace Roseau in Avignon Off Festival. She is the writer and stage director of “Ça – Le silence tue” (“That (silence kills)”), a play about sexual violence. The play was performed in...
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Kornélia Deres (HU)
Kornélia Deres was born in 1987, Miskolc. She graduated in Hungarian and English Studies – and also finished a minor program of Theatre Studies – at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She is currently a PhD student in Comparative Literary Studies at ELTE and her dissertation will focus on the...
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Daria Fehérová ( SK)
Dária Fojtíková Fehérová (1984) studied two years theatre dramaturgy and three years theatre criticism at the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava, which she finished with master´s degree in Theory and History of Theatre Art. Since 2009 she has worked for the Theatre Institute in...
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Thomas Irmer (DE)
Dr. Thomas Irmer
born 1962 in Potsdam, G.D.R., lives in Berlin
academic career
graduated in English and German literature at Leipzig University, 1988
Fulbright research fellow at SUNY Buffalo, 1990/91
PhD with a dissertation on postmodern American fiction at...
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Natalia Jakubova (HU/RU)
Natalia Jakubova, PhD., is a theatre studies specialist who specializes on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. She published a book O Witkacym (About Witkacy, Warszawa, IBL, 2010) and currently is preparing a book on the last decade the theatres of Hungary, Poland and Russia. Since 1994...
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Anna Lengyel (HU)
After eight years with the Kaposvár theatre as a dramaturg and international manager, Anna Lengyel has worked with the renowned Krétakör Theatre from Budapestuntil the company was dissolved in 2008. As a dramaturg she has worked internationally with Tamás Ascher, Árpád...
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Ildikó Lőkös (HU)
Dramaturg at the Új Színház (New Theater. Budapest). Graduated at the University of Theatre and Film at dramaturge department. Nowadays she is working on a research as a DLA-candidate, the topic is why the drama disappears as a genre from the theater, and what kind of text appears insted of it....
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Ruslan Malikov (RU)
Malikov Ruslan was born in Saint Petersburg in 1972, is a director, graduated from Moscow state university of culture in 1998 (major - the art of stage direction), lives in Moscow.
After the graduation teamed up with students of the same year into “student theatre DSV” on the basis of MSU...
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Olivier Mouginot (FR)
Director, author, translator.
Was born in 1980. Graduated from the National Higher School of Arts and Theatre Techniques in Lyon as a playwright in the class of Enzo Cormann.
Lately he’s been traveling through Africa working for the French cultural network.
From 2009, he is the artistic...
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Péter P. Müller (HU)
Péter P. Müller is Professor at the University of Pécs in the Department of Modern Literature and Literary Theory and director of the Theatre Studies Program. From 1999 to 2004 he was director of the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute in Budapest. In 1990/91, and 1993/94 he was Visiting...
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Ardai Petra (HU/NL)
CV Petra Ardai Budapest 11-06-1967
Study:
1981 - 1984 - atheneum, Budapest,
1984 - 1985 - Art History, English language, London
1990 - 1994 - Amsterdam School of Arts ( AHK) Department of Mime,...
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Iulia Popovici (RO)
Iulia Popovici (1979, Suceava) is a performing arts critic, editor and curator based in Bucharest. Currently working for Observator cultural magazine in Bucharest. A graduate from the University of Bucharest, Department of Letters (BA in Romanian and Latin Studies, 2002), she pursued her...
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Ján Šimko (SK)
Ján Šimko (*1976)
He studied psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava and theatre theory at the Academy of Performing Arts. In 1999-2005 in Prague he co-founded the M.U.T. Theatre – an international association of inter-cultural type with strong tendency to...
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David Schwartz (RO)
David Schwartz is a theatre director and community artist based in Bucharest and interested in personal history theatre, documentary film and theatre, art for social emancipation. He graduated the Faculty of Theatre Directing (2007) and the MA in Contemporary Performance Directing (2009), at the...
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Annabel Soutar (CAN)
Education
Princeton University 1990-94, New Jersey, USA
B.A. English (Dramatic Literature)
Certificate in The Program of Theatre and...
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Attila Szabó
theatrologist, organizer of the conference
Born in 1983 as an ethnic Hungarian in Transylvania, moved to Hungary in 1999 with his family. Graduated at the Theatre Faculty of the University of Pannonia (Veszprém) in 2006 receiving a degree in both theatre studies and English language and...
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Jana Svobodova (CZ)
Graduate of DAMU (The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague), Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre
In 1997 she began working with Petr Nikl as playwright, director, and performer for the Czech-South African performances In the Mirror (1998), Behind the Mirror...
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Andrea Tompa (HU)
Andrea Tompa was born in 1971 in Cluj Napoca, Romania. She began her studies in 1990 at ELTE University, Budapest, Faculty of Hungarian and Russian Literature. In 1996 she applied to the Hajónapló workshop at Bárka Theatre Budapest. She published her first writing on theatre in 1999 in Színház...
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Balázs Varga (HU)
Balázs Varga writes and lectures on the modern and contemporary history of Hungarian cinema, the contemporary cinema and the social history of the cinema. He has been teaching in Hungarian higher education since 1997, from 1993 to 2007 he also worked for the Hungarian National Film Archives. A...
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Katalin Vecsey (USA/HU)
Katalin Vecsey is a Senior Lecturer in Theater and Vocal Director for theatrical productions at Bates College, Maine, U.S.A. She received her doctorate from the Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest, Hungary. In addition to Bates, she has taught at Bárczi Gusztáv College and at drama...
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