KAMPF UM DIE STADT – Eine Wrestlingshow

Julian Warner (Artistic Direction) is an artist and curator. He is the artistic director for the Augsburg Brecht Festival and co-curated performing arts festivals for Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Munich Kammerspiele, and Berlin’s Sophiensæle. As a research associate, he worked and taught at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology of the Georg August University in Göttingen, and he co-edited the ALLIANZEN – Kritische Praxis an weißen Institutionen (Critical Practice at White Institutions) anthology with Elisa Liepsch. He drafted the GLOBAL ANGST: PARLAMENT.PARADE.RITUAL project for SPIELART in 2021.

Veronika Maurer (Artistic Direction) studied Philosophy in Vienna and Paris and went on to work as an assistant dramaturge at Burgtheater with such theatre makers as René Pollesch and Christoph Schlingensief. From 2011 until 2014, she held an engagement at Munich Residence Theatre, followed by Schauspielhaus Graz. She was a dramaturge at Volkstheater Vienna, where she tended to productions by Yael Ronen, Robert Gerloff, Jessica Glause and others while also curating an annual festival with Eastern European guest performances, from 2015 until 2020. She has been working as a freelance dramaturge since 2020.

Helena Ratka (Music & Composition) studied Visual Communication at HfbK Hamburg. She has been creating film projects ranging from documentation, fiction, and music since 2005. She developed video pieces for various stage productions, at Thalia Theater, for instance, while also writing theatre music for Mirja Biel since 2018. She has been one half of pop duo Shari Vari with Sophia Kennedy since 2015 and released her debut album NOW in 2019. As Pose Dia, her solo debut was released on Bureau B in autumn of 2020.

Mai Gogishvili (Decor) is a Georgian stage designer and spatial artist. She has been working for various theatre houses in the German-speaking countries since 2010, among them Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Theater Dortmund, Theater Freiburg, Münchner Volkstheater, Kammerspiele München, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Theater Neumarkt Zurich, Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart.

Ikenna David Okegwo (Video Design) grew up in the Ruhr area, took a dive into the theatre world at Theater im Pumpenhaus, specialised in video in Amsterdam, and has been creative in Munich for more than ten years.

Robert Gerloff (Scenic Set-Up) studied Political Sciences in Bonn and Dramatics in Bochum. He most recently produced regular stagings at the Munich Residence Theatre, at Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, at the Oldenburg Staatstheater, as well as at Volkstheater Vienna. Additional stagings were done for Theater Neumarkt in Zurich, Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatstheater Darmstadt and elsewhere.

Sabine Klötzer (Artistic Production Management) studied Applied Theatre Sciences at Justus Liebig University Gießen. With her Büro SISK, she realised projects for The Agency, Taigué Ahmed, Anta Helena Recke, and others. She was the artistic production manager for RODEO Festival Munich in 2018. She worked as artistic production manager at the Munich Kammerspiele from 2017 until 2020. There, the Friendly Confrontations festival with Julian Warner and Julia Grosse was among her projects.