PLANTAGE DACHAU

Jelena Kuljić, born in 1976 in Yugoslavia, completed her studies in jazz singing at the Jazzinstitut Berlin in 2008. She initiated various music projects, such as "Yelena K & The Love Trio" (Double Moon Records), "Fasil" (ECM, 2009), Paul Brody's "Sadawi" (AsiaNetwork), "KUU!" (ACT music), "Z-Country Paradise" (Z-Paradise Records), etc. She has worked extensively with David Marton and collaborated with Constanza Macras. In 2022 she was nominated for the German Jazz Award and won the JTI Jazz Award. Since 2015 she has been working at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Stefan Merki, born in Switzerland, studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1989 he worked at the Schaubühne Berlin and from 1990 to 1994 at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Guest performances followed at the Aachen Theatre, Thalia Theatre and the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, where he worked until 2001. Since then he has worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In addition to his stage work, he regularly works for film and television productions as well as on the radio for Bavarian Radio, among others.

Julia Riedler studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. She was an ensemble member at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Schauspiel Köln and from 2015-2020 at the Münchner Kammerspiele. She received, among others, the Boy-Gobert Young Talent Award 2013, the AZ Star of the Year as best actress 2016, and the Bavarian Arts Promotion Award 2017. Since 2020 she has been working as a freelance actress, shooting internationally in various film and television productions and acting as a narrator in numerous radio plays.

Jana Baldovino studied at New Zealand school of Dance and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in the UK, from which she graduated in 2019. Winner of the Charlotte Kirkpatrick Award, the RAD Solo Seal Award and the Choreographic Award. She has worked with choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Baldwin, Thomas Hauert, Ina Christel Johannessen, Frédérick Gravel, among many others. Since season 2020/2021 she is member of the Ballett ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.

Theresa Hoffmann has a degree in politics and studied acting at the Identity School of Acting in London - later with a focus on physical theatre. Her work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, among others, Films at the Munich Film Festival, the True/False Festival and the Aesthetica Film Festival. She is currently a recipient of the Kirch Foundation Media Art Scholarship with the collective Hybris.

Carla Lou Schäfer studied art history with a focus on architecture in Frankfurt am Main at Goethe University. She worked closely with Maria Magdalena Ludewig at the Wiesbaden Biennale 2018 and also gained her first performance experience at the Wiesbaden Biennale 2022. She works at the interface between mediation and free art at the Städel Museum and the German Leather Museum in Frankfurt am Main and is always active as a stage and costume designer.

Liv Rahel Schwenk is a German-American artist and translator working with performance, video, drawing, and choreographic methods. Her works are often made for specific spaces and challenge their rules through interventions using her own body. She studied at Bard College Berlin and Art Academy Düsseldorf and came to New York with a DAAD-fellowship to deepen her interest in dance. Liv has published two artist books. She recently had solo shows with mhProject and Putty’s Coronation in New York.

Süheyla Ünlü, born in Berlin, participated early on in projects at the Junge DT in Berlin, among others with Nurkan Erpulat and Nuran David Calis. After graduating from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, she was an ensemble member at the Nuremberg State Theatre until 2022. Here she worked with René Pollesch, Selen Kara, Anne Lenk, Rafael Sanchez, Christian Brey, Anna Stiepani, Kieran Joel and Jan Philipp Gloger, among others. Since 2022 she has been working as a freelance actress and shooting in various film and television productions.

Jan Grosfeld studied musicology and cultural studies at the University of Bremen and the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, as well as theater studies with a focus on sound at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In his theater work he is active as an actor, musician and artistic collaborator, increasingly also in a dramaturgical position. Close collaborations with Frank Abt, Anne Sophie Domenz, Rahel Hofbauer, Caroline Anne Kapp, Selen Kara and Felix Rothenhäusler, among others. Awards from the Körber Studio Junge Regie (2020) and the 47th Mülheim Theater Days "Stücke" (2022).

Caroline Anne Kapp works as a director and performer on the topics of body and landscape contamination. This is based on literary material as well as on historical events. Her works are being shown at Pinakothek der Moderne, at the Märkisches Museum, at Schauspielhaus Leipzig and elsewhere. She won the 2020 Körber Studio junge Regie (young directing) jury award for her graduate work MESSY HISTORY LESSONS at the Otto Falckenberg Schule, dealing with the empty gaps in feminist historiography.

Manon Haase conceptualises performative and museum-based artistic formats. As a dramaturge, she worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele and for Mette Ingvartsen’s dance company, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Collaborating with Caroline Anne Kapp, she has been developing performances on remembrance and identity politics under the label ‘Unpleasant Affairs’ since MESSY HISTORY LESSONS, most currently ‘Electric Mountain Obersalzberg’ as a performative inspection of the Obersalzberg.

Beo Tomek apprenticed at a carpenter’s and studied visual arts at Munich Akademie der bildenden Künste from 2013 to 2020. His graduate project dealt with digital armaments from the Isar valley and was completed in collaboration with journalists and activists. Beo Tomek initiated the accompanying Plantage Dachau website plantage-dachau.de.

Teresa Häusler works as a scenographer at the crossroads of performative and visual arts, between scenic space and exhibition site. In her practice, she probes for the connections between space, policy, and representation. Her works have been presented at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig), at Münchner Kammerspiele and at Ballhaus Ost (Berlin), among other places.

Florian Wulff mainly works in the areas of composition and sound design for theatre, performative installations, films, and audio walks. For Caroline Anne Kapp’s work MESSY HISTORY LESSONS, he developed a composition that refers back to sound spectra of female electronic music pioneers that had supposedly been forgotten. As a sound designer, he is also active for Rimini Protokoll as well as for films by Mushrif Shekh Zeyn and Laura Baalmann.

Joyce Moore studied product design and design theory at Folkwang University of the Arts. In addition to her work in design research, she regularly works as a graphic designer for performance and art projects. Most recently, she designed the poetry collection "Genderless Feelings" with artist Cordula Schieri.

Katrin Langner studied stage design at the Academie Minerva in Groningen (NL). She was the founder of the performance collective BILDERBAND, for which she created the light and sound design in addition to the performance and concept. After assisting lighting designer Andre Pronk, she trained as an event technician. In 2017, she took over the technical direction of the Otto Falckenberg School and worked as a lighting technician at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Since the 2022/23 season, she has been a lighting technician at Theater Bremen.

Lara Schubert works as a freelance production manager to realise and produce projects by choreographers and directors in Munich. She oversaw the jury and selection processes for TANZPLATTFORM DEUTSCHLAND 2024 at Theater Freiburg. She is a guest lecturer at Theaterakademie August Everding and production management for explore dance Munich.