Nele Hertling, Director
Dramaturge and artistic director
Member of the Section (since 1998), Director (since 2017)
Nele Hertling
© Inge Zimmermann
Performing Arts Section
The Performing Arts Section is a grouping of international members from the realms of acting, directing, dramaturgy, choreography, set design and theatre management.
Meike Droste, Christian Grashof, Constanze Becker, Corinna Harfouch, Lars Barthel, Ulrich Siedler (f.l.t.r.), film talk as part of the event ‘“Erinnerungen an Jürgen Gosch" (Memories of Jürgen Gosch) 28–30 Sep 2018
© David Baltzer
About the Section
The section presents, discusses and supports international productions involving theatre, dance or performance. It stages individual events to elucidate particular topics arising from the work of its members.
“Grüber, Hölderlin, Marthaler: Ins Offene” (Into the Open), colloquium 14–16 May 2022
© Mark Blezinger
Its thematic focuses examine major aesthetic connections with a particular emphasis on the social dimension of artistic work. It also fosters international dialogue in theatre and is concerned with international approaches to theatre projects with migrants.
Working in conjunction with the Freie Universität Berlin and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme, the Performing Arts Section instituted the Valeska Gert Guest Professorship in 2006.
The section liaises between all the performing arts institutions on issues of cultural policy and is committed to the exchange of ideas between the independent scene and established operators conducted in a spirit of solidarity.
Directors
Mark Lammert, Deputy Director
Visual artist and set designer
Member of the Section (since 2015), Deputy Director (since 2024)
Mark Lammert
© Marcus Lieberenz
Ehemalige Direktor*innen
Former directors are Ulrich Matthes (2012–2017), Thomas Langhoff (2006–2012), Klaus Völker (2003–2006), Thomas Langhoff (1994–2003) and Otto Sander (1992–1994).
Former deputy directors are Christian Grashof (2015–2024), Reinhild Hoffmann (2007–2015), Ulrich Matthes (2006–2007), Nele Hertling (2001–2006), Henning Rischbieter (1997–2000), Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle (1994–1997), Hannelore Hoger (1991–1994) and Bruno Ganz (1992–1993).
Programme
KULA Compagnie: Journals of Exile, theatre performance, rehearsal, 24 Mar 2023
© Annette Hauschild / OSTKREUZ
Events
The section stages individual events to elucidate particular topics arising from the work of its members. Its thematic focuses examine major aesthetic connections with a particular emphasis on the social dimension of artistic work.
It also fosters international dialogue in theatre. This was accomplished most recently with the guest performances by the transnational KULA Compagnie, Journals of Exile (2023) and Underground Birds (2024), which examined the theme of migration and the refugee experience in different times and places.
The Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
The Valeska Gert Guest Professorship was instituted in 2006 as a cooperation between the Akademie der Künste, the Freie Universität Berlin and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
It is awarded each semester to a dance or performance artist, who works together with students in the dance studies master’s programme applying a practice-oriented approach. The content and thematic focus of the seminar are introduced at the beginning of the process in a public lecture, and the outcomes are shown to the audience in a final presentation by the students at the end.
Publications
Into the Open. Nele Hertling – New Spaces for the Arts
Into the Open. Nele Hertling – New Spaces for the Arts
€29
Das Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet) Schlemmer / Bohner / Hespos
Das Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet) Schlemmer / Bohner / Hespos
€9