Friederike Felbeck
Fellow
Director, writer and producer. After her studies with Jürgen Flimm, she worked as personal assistant to Armand Gatti und Roberto Ciulli. Her debut after Pasolini's “Pig's Stall” was followed by productions of both classical and contemporary authors. She has written plays about fine artists Eva Hesse and Alexej von Jawlensky and developed performances concerned with urban development and architecture. Her travels have frequently led her to the Middle East, initiating the first Syrian-German co-production after Sadallah Wannus “Tuqûs al-ishârât wa al-tahawwulât”. Her most recent productions include “Everyman” by Hofmannsthal, staged with actors from Germany and Senegal and “Antigone”, performed on the grounds of a former National Socialist training institution, that after WWII transformed from military training area to memorial site. Still on-going is “Government Poetry”, an artistic view on UNESCO's Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. As a lecturer, she has focussed on psychoanalysis and film and the role of art in Human Rights Education.
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Director, writer and producer. After her studies with Jürgen Flimm, she worked as personal assistant to Armand Gatti und Roberto Ciulli. Her debut after Pasolini's “Pig's Stall” was followed by productions of both classical and contemporary authors. She has written plays about fine artists Eva Hesse and Alexej von Jawlensky and developed performances concerned with urban development and architecture. Her travels have frequently led her to the Middle East, initiating the first Syrian-German co-production after Sadallah Wannus “Tuqûs al-ishârât wa al-tahawwulât”. Her most recent productions include “Everyman” by Hofmannsthal, staged with actors from Germany and Senegal and “Antigone”, performed on the grounds of a former National Socialist training institution, that after WWII transformed from military training area to memorial site. Still on-going is “Government Poetry”, an artistic view on UNESCO's Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. As a lecturer, she has focussed on psychoanalysis and film and the role of art in Human Rights Education.
February 22, 2011
In 1963, the Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz sailed from South America to Europe. He was bound for Berlin, where he was to take up a Ford Foundation fellowship, the first of a series of artist residencies meant to initiate a cultural revival of the recently divided city. For Gombrowicz, it was his first journey to Europe in twenty-three years. In his journal, he describes an extraordinary encounter: at the break of dawn, northeast of the Canary Islands, he sees in a distance the ship of Chrobry, sailing on her maiden voyage from the Polish harbor Gdynia to Argentina. Gombrowicz was on board as a correspondent. Bound to spend a short period abroad and then return.