Dr. Nora Haakh is a dramaturg, cultural scientist and researching artist based in Berlin. During her studies of Cultural Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science and History in Berlin, Paris, Istanbul and Cairo, she started working in theatre, assisting in some key productions of the upcoming postmigrant and documentary theatre scene in Germany.
Between 2012 and 2016, she worked as a dramaturg for the avantgarde postmigrant theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin. Since then, she has been working in various collaborations in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, film and interdisciplinary art, as well as experimenting with the intersections of performance, generative scribing, storytelling and participatory tools in artistic research in her own practice.
Her PhD on transfer and translation in artistic processes was awarded a special mention of the prestigious Augsburg Award for Intercultural Studies in 2021. She has been teaching, mentoring and facilitating dramaturgy, performance and artistic research workshops and seminars in Berlin and Hamburg as well as in Spain, France, Poland, Egypt or Croatia.
Recent projects include co-direction of an outreach youth project („Studio Realtalk“) for the city youth theatre Theater an der Parkaue, co-direction of the 6 year EU-funded artistic / social laboratory „AUCH Nachbarschaft ist Kunst“ (Neighbourhood is Art, TOO), creating temporary contact zones for non-ordinary encounters with artistic tools, and her artistic research „Tree Translator“ on possibilities of more-than-human encounter that has been funded by the German Fund for Perfoming Arts and invited to various festivals in Germany, Spain and Poland.