Hannah Baumann

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Hannah Baumann, born 1991, will finish working as a dramaturge at Theaterhaus Jena in 2024. She studied dramaturgy at Leipzig University of Music and Theatre and Spatial Strategies at Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. She has worked on projects at different theatres such as Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt and was the curatorial assistant for the Performing Exiles Festival (curated by Matthias Lilienthal with Rabih Mroué). In 2023, together with Christina Jung, she staged the play ‘nüchtern (monsters dancing in the dark)’ at Staatstheater Augsburg, a research project about alcohol addicts’ loved ones. She has also given workshops and worked as a conceptual consultant for various political education associations in the field of anti-discrimination (including 7xjung). She is also a Muay Thai trainer for women and non-binary persons. In 2019, she received the Elsa Neumann Scholarship from the State of Berlin to support young artists. She was the dramaturge and part of the writers’ collective for ‘Die Hundekot-Attacke’ (director: Walter Bart), which was invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Berliner Theatertreffen. The team also received the 3sat Theatre Prize for its collective authorship. Her work focuses on the development and performance of research-based and documentary plays as well as on accompanying collaborative writing processes as a dramaturge and theatre director.