HELENA WALDMANN

BIOGRAPHIES

director and choreographer, lives in Berlin
Helena Waldmann studied her craft with Heiner Müller, Gerorge Tabori and Gerhard Bohner, amongst others.
Her research in the field of the gaze moved the audience directly next to the stage, twisted the stage perspective or closed up the fourth wall - as a result, works such as ‘The Malady of Death’, ‘Vodka konkav’’, created between 1993 and 1999, were internationally acclaimed.
The political force of her choreographies post 2000 results from a mimicry of exile and inner immigration, as seen in ‘Letters from Tentland’, produced in Tehran for six Iranian women, her short movie «emotional rescue» produced in Palestine, ‘Crash’, her ballet about border crossing sports, and ‘Return to sender’, her commentary on European immigration policy, formulated by six exiled Iranian women. He latest "BurkaBondage" can be described as a forced disappearance of the body from society, showing a lustpain-marathon. All these works are creating a worldwide stir as political avant-garde theatre.

2009 BurkaBondage Premiere 9 October Haus der Berliner Festspiele
2008 feierabend! - das gegengift - world premiere February 13,2008 Kampnagel Hamburg (D)
2006 Return to Sender - Letters from Tentland premiere June 25 Festival Montpellier Danse 2006
2006 Crash Saarbrücken, Prague, Budapest, Ljubljana and Munich Premiere May 13,2006
2005 «Emotional Rescue» - a dance film, with dancers of El-Funoun Troup from Ramallah and performers from Gaza (Palestine)
2005 Letters from Tentland» for six Iranian female performer (Tehran/Berlin) Premiere January 2005 Fadjr Festival Tehran
2003 «Headhunters» -cutting the edges- in collaboration with Cie. Viladança, Teatro Vila Velha, Salvador de Bahia (BR), awarded the UNESCO prize
2003 waschen schneiden fönen», guest choreography for Luzerner Theater (CH)
2002 «The Invasion of the Penguins», guest choreography for Staatstheater Darmstadt (D),
2002 Odyssee 2002 according to Homer at Luzerner Theater (CH)
2001 Right across the Ages: China on the Catwalk China Festival Berlin/Peking
2001 «Banquet for Long Pigs» Podewil Berlin
2001 Show window, Atelier Markgraph, YelloMiles Multimedia Show for GDS Düsseldorf, awarded 1st prize in the catgory Exhibition Events: EVA 2001
2001 «The Expansion of the Fighting Zone» according to Michel Houellebecq at Luzerner Theater (CH)
2000 artist in residence at Podewil Berlin,
«2000 see and be scene» -a catwalk banquet- Berliner Festspiele and Podewil Berlin

created at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main:
1999 CheshireCat® -a little revue-
1998 lucky johnny -a boat movie-
1997 vodka konkav -optics break dance- awarded the IMPULSE'97 Prize
1996 face....à -an erotic phantasmagoria-
1995 circuit -a raging roundabout-
1993 the malady of death -an overhead show-

created as free-lanced director:
1993 Affaire Rue de Lourcine by Eugène Labiche
1992 Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist created at Schauspielhaus Bochum:
1992 ungeduscht, geduzt und ausgebuht according to Max Goldt/Wiglaf Droste
1991 In der Einsamkeit der Baumwollfelder by Bernard-Marie Koltès
1990 Verkürzte Landschaft according to Georg Paulmichl

Part-time lectureship at Universities of Frankfurt/Main (1994/95) and Paris (1995)
From 1989 to 1990 assistant with Frank-Patrick Steckel, Gerhard Bohner, Jürgen Gosch and Urs Troller at Schauspielhaus Bochum.
working on theatre projects e.g. with Heiner Müller, Adolf Dresen, Emma Lewis Thomas, Molly Davies; with George Tabori at Munich Kammerspiele; with Axel Manthey at TAT Frankfurt/Main.
educated in Applied Theatre-Studies at University in Giessen, Germany, graduated in 1987