Artistic Projects and Mentoring – Dr. phil. Nora Haakh

(CO-)DIRECTION

2018 – ongoing Tree Translator. Artistic Research, Performances, Workshops. Funded and invited by Nomadways Brivezac/France 48h Neukölln Berlin, Performing Arts Fund Germany, Festival Biosphäre Oberhausen, Object Theatre Festival Fest der Puppen Lingen, Follow the Yellow Brick Road HFS Ernst Busch Berlin, Nova Lalka Festival Poland, Institut del Teatro Barcelona/Spain.
2024 Studio Realtalk. Artistic Research / Performance Project with Youth. Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin. Funded by the Youth Culture Initiative of the Berlin City Council. Artistic Co-Direction with Nils Erhard, Dramaturgy.
2023 Machine to become_which witch? Multidisciplinary Performance. Acker Stadt Palast Berlin, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste. Artistic Co-Direction with Caroline Alves and Natalie Riedelsheimer, Performance, Dramaturgy.
2020 – 2024 Around the Fire. Multilingual Storytelling Format. Cooperation with AUCH, Lobe Block, Wilde 17 and others, Berlin. Funded by EU-Fonds Sozialer Zusammenhalt. Curation.
2018 – 2024 AUCH Nachbarschaft ist Kunst (Neighbourhood is Art, TOO). Artistic / Social Laboratory facilitating Temporary Contact Zones for Non-Ordinary Encounter with Artistic Means. Funded by EU-Fonds Sozialer Zusammenhalt, City Council of Berlin. Co-Direction with Ilker Abay.
2018 The Fever. Theatre play by Wallace Shaw. Nomadways Residency, Brivezac, France. Direction.
2015 Adapter. Theatre Play by Wasim Ghrioui. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, taz Kongress, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Berlin. Funded by Berlin City Council. Direction.
2012 Und jetzt bitte in die Kamera (Can you look into the camera please). Theatre play by Mohammad Al-Attar. Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin. Staged Reading Direction.

TEACHING & MENTORING, FACILITATION, LECTURES

2025 To whom belongs the future?! Participatory and empowering Artistic Research approaches for political and cultural education, Alice-Salomon-School for Higher Education in Social Work, Berlin. Teaching with Nils Erhard and Elène Misbach.
2025 Angewandte Dramaturgie (Applied Dramaturgy). University for Applied Sciences Hamburg, Design Department. Teaching.
2024 How can we create a collective vision of a future worth fighting for? Climate KIC, Netherlands. Lecture Performance / Panel.
2024 Future Workshop: Training the Imagination Muscle. AUCH Spring Festival, Luisenbad Library. Berlin. Workshop Facilitation.
2023 Dramaturgien möglicher Zukünfte (Dramaturgies of Possible Futures). HAW Hamburg, Design Department. Teaching.
2024 Tree Translator Workshop. Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, Spain. Lecture Performance, Workshop Facilitation.
2023 Footnote Mycelia for Tree Translations. Lalka Nova Festival, Academy for Theatre and Performance, Wroclaw, Poland. Lecture Performance, Panel.
2023 Hegemony and Collaboration in More-than-human Co-Creation. Acting School Ernst Busch, Berlin. Workshop Facilitation.
2023 Layla and Majnun as Artistic Research. Performing Arts in movement. Summerschool T(r)anzkultur, Institut für Kunstgeschichte/Sammlung Philara/Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf. Lecture Performance.
2023 Arabisches Theatertreffen (Arabic Theatre Encounter). Pavillon Hannover. Mentoring für Arab and German Theatre Students together with Prof. Abdellah Motia.
2023 Everything performs. Roundtable with Annette Arlander (FI), Amy Bryzgel (UK), Łukasz Guzek (PL), Nora Haakh (DE), Maximilian Lehner (AT) and Jana Orlová (CZ)“, in: Tanecnizona.
2022 Erzählende Affen (Storytelling Monkeys). HAW Hamburg, Design Department. Teaching.
2021 Zeit und Zeiterfahrung in der Contact Zone (Time and Time Experience in the Contact Zone). HAW Hamburg, Design Department. Teaching.
2020 Intercultural Competences. International Acting School Cours Florent Berlin. Teaching.
2020 Dramaturgy in the Contact Zone. HAW Hamburg, Design Department. Teaching.
2020 Check your luggage please. Autobiographical Performance / Documentary Theatre Workshop. Impulse Festival. Workshop facilitation.
2018 Dramaturgy for Performances in Public Space. Mahatat for Contemporary Art, Cairo / Egypt. Workshop Facilitation.
2018 Check your luggage please. Autobiographical Performance. Nomadways, Brivezac / France. Workshop Facilitation.
2017 Performing Brache (Performing Wasteland). Performance Workshop. Funded by EU Programm Erasmus Plus. Mikub e.V./Transdemo e.V., Vrihovina, Croatia. Workshop Facilitation with Natalie Riedelsheimer.
2017 Pop-up, Stand there, Speak. Theatre Skills for Migrant Women. Arrivo/Schlesische Str.27 (Berlin). Workshop Facilitation with Adriana Metzlaff.
2015 Check your luggage please. Documentary Theatre with Foreign Correspondants. Funded by Media Network N-Ost for Translating Words Festival, Berlin. Workshop facilitation with Ilker Abay.

DRAMATURGY / ARTISTIC COLLABORATION / PERFORMANCE

2025 Grief and Praise. Performance by Tamlyn Magee and Alexa Peggie, dramaturgical development support in collaboration with Deborah Cleland, funded by the Regional Art Development Funds New South Wales, Australia.
2024/5 Creative Permaculture. Performative Research together with Deborah Cleland, 3 months, Australia.
2024 Water Bodies. Performance directed by Barbara Santos. SPORE Art Space, Berlin. Collective creation, Performance.
2024 Carne (Flesh). Dance Performance by Ricardo de Paula and Grupo Oito, Tanzfabrik, Berlin. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany, Berlin City Council. Dramaturgy.
2024 Doping. Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Kammerspiele, Munich. Dramaturgical Advice.
2024 Creative Permaculture. Performative Research in Collaboration with Sofie Alice Miller, Germany/Mongolia.
2022 Die Vierte Wand (The Fourth Wall). Theatre play adapted from the novel by Sorj Chalandon, directed by Suzanne Emonds. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. Theater unterm Dach, Berlin. Stage adaptation, dramaturgy.
2022 Rabatt (Discount). Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Maxim-Gorki-Theatre Berlin. Dramaturgical Advice.
2022 Machine to become_white. Artistic Research / Performance Experiment. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. Katapult Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2022 Tree Translator. Gespräche unter Bäumen (Conversations amongs trees). Invited by Object Theatre Festival Fest der Puppen Lingen, Germany. Participatory performance in public space.
2022 How I Lost My Fear Of Dogs. Artistic Research. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany.
2022 Mindscaping Kompliz_innen. Ein performatives Fußnoteninstrument (Mindscaping Comrades. A Performative Footnote Instrument). Artistic Research, Development Scholarship by Fonds DaKü Germany.
2021 Draw me (into) a story. Artistic Research, Development Scholarship by GVL Germany.
2021 Eigensinnige Leben (Willful Lives). Performance Parcours in Public Space by Joel Vogel und Vincent Bababoutilabo. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. Video documentation: https://www.zurueckerzaehlt.de/
2021 Minenfeld Dolmetschen (Minefield Translation). Documentary Theatre play with translators, directed by Anette Ramershofen and Ensemble Balambalam. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. IFA Berlin, WUK Halle, Erfurt, Werkraumtheater Göttingen. Dramaturgy.
2021 Wann entfaltet Zartheit Kraft (When Strenth Emerges From Tenderness). Dance performance with 12 Ventilators by Mareike Jung. Fudned by Fonds DaKü. Heizhaus, Berlin. Text, Dramaturgy.
2021 Das magische Badezimmer (The Magic Bathroom). Outdoor Musical Theatre / Performance by Women by the River Collective. Münchner Hofspielhaus, Munich. Co-Creation, Performance.
2021 Reich Blond und Nackt (Rich, Blond and Naked). Artistic Research and Online Encounter by Collective MNM (Meriam Bousselmi, Nora Haakh, Miriam Lemdjadji). Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany.
2021 Jeeps. Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Münchner Kammerspiele. Invited to Mühlheimer Theatertage.
2020 Wie ein Wald (Like a Forest). Short Film for Children directed by Demet Altan. Federal Award Winner Schools against Discrimination. Teaser online https://vimeo.com/561802394.
2020 AUCH Laut (Loud, too). Participatory Performance for Pandemic Public Space. In collaboration with AUCH, Berlin, funded by EU-Fonds Sozialer Zusammenhalt, Fonds DaKü Germany. Invited to Lichterfeld Leipzig, Fluctoplasma Festival Hamburg, Organically Digital Festival Berlin. Concept and Performance with Ilker Abay.
2020 Gespräche unter Bäumen (Conversations amongst Trees). Artistic Research, Performances. In collaboration with Schlossgarten Britz, Berlin, Prinzessinnengärten, Berlin. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. Concept, Performance. Trailer online; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhW_zI0ccCA&feature=youtu.be .
Diskriminierung 2022. Teaser online unter https://vimeo.com/561802394.
2020 ZurückErzählt (Told Back). Audiowalk by Joel Vogel and Vincent Bababoutialbo. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany. Dramaturgy. Online: https://www.zurueckerzaehlt.de/
2020 Der Titel ist frei übersetzbar (La Beauté Entre) (The Title is Freely Translatable). Theatre play written and directed by Meriam Bousselmi. Funded by Fonds DaKü Germany, Federal Theatre Award Germany. Werkraum Theater Göttingen, TIK Theater Heidleberg, Tak Theater Berlin. Performance. Trailer online: https://vimeo.com/475780459
2019 Frauen am Fluss der Zeit (Women by the River of Time). Musical Theatre Performance by Berivan Kaya and Women be the River Collective. Pepper Theater Munich. WortSchauFestival Audience Award Winner. Performance, Collective Creation.
2019 Machine to become_woman. Performance by Natalie Riedelsheimer and Caroline Alves. Katapult, Luisenbad Library, Lobe Block Berlin. Funded by Berlin City Council. Dramaturgy, Graphic Recording, Performance.
2018 Crews & Gangs. TV-Show (one season, 5 episodes) by Neco Celik. Set Dramaturgy.
2018 K/no/w-go-zones. Contemporary Dance / Performance Parcours in Public Space by Ricardo de Paula and Grupo Oito. Performing Arts Festival Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2017 Shadow Lines. Paintings and Drawings. Solo Exhibition, Gallery Tennis, Art Festival 48h Neukölln, Berlin.
2017 Shadow Society. Interactive Installation by Ilker Abay. Funded by Kulturamt Neukölln. Art Festival 48h Berlin. Artistic Collaboration.
2017 Future Vision. Vision Day, World Theatre Festival Lingen. Graphic Recording.
2016 Sie nannten ihn Tico (They Called Him Tico). Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Volkstheater Munich. Dramaturgy.
2016 Brennen verboten (Burning Not Permitted). Performance Parcours by Ilker Abay. Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2015 Mad Madams. Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Neues Theater Halle. Dramaturgy, Co-Writer.
2015 Die Geschichte von Buffalo Jim (The Story Of Buffalo Jim). Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Maxim-Gorki-Theater Studio, Berlin. Dramaturgy, Co-Writer.
2015 Dschingis Cohen. Theatre play adapted from the novel by Romain Gary directed by Daniel Kahn. Maxim-Gorki-Theater Studio, Berlin. Invited to Desintegrationskongress 2016. Dramaturgy, Co-Writer.
2015 Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien (Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies). Theatre play by Olivia Wenzel directed by Atif Hussein. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2014 Sag mal, dass wir nicht Zuhause sind (Say We Are Not Home). Theatre play adapted from the novel by Rashid Novaire, directed by Berivan Kaya. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2014 Kings. Theatre play written and directed by Nora Abdel-Maksoud. Invited to Radikal Jung Festival 2015. Co-Writer, Dramaturgy.
2014 We are tomorrow. Interdisciplinary Festival curated by Wagner Carvalho. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2014 Tableau. Theatre play written and directed by Reihaneh Youzbashi Dijazi. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2014 Rauş – Neue Deutsche Stücke (New German Drama). One year literature workshop and staged readings, artistic direction: Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Deniz Utlu. Ballhaus Naunynstraße /Maxim Gorki Theater Studio / Literature Magazine Freitext. Dramaturgy.
2013 Liga der Verdammten (League of the Damned). Theatre play by Imran Ayata directed by Neco Celik. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2013 Schwarz tragen (Wearing Black). Theatre play by Elizabeth Blonzen directed by Branwen Okpako. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2013 Black Lux – Ein Heimatfest aus Schwarzen Perspektiven (A Black Perspectice Homecoming). Interdisciplinary Festival curated by Wagner Carvalho. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2013 Thinking on a Swing. Video Art by Annette Arlander, Working Group Practice as Research, IFTR Conference, Warwick / UK. Performance.
2013 E muet (Silent E). Documentary Film by Corine Shawi. Performance.
2012 Voicing Resistance. Interdisciplinary Festival with Dance, Theatre and Performance from the Middle East curated by Irina Szodruch. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2012 Scheppernde Antworten auf dröhnende Fragen (Banging Answers to Burning Questions). Three short plays by Nora Abdel-Maksoud, Salome Dastmalchi and Theresa Henning. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2012 Fahrräder könnten eine Rolle spielen (Bikes might play a role). Theatre play byMarianna Salzmann and Deniz Utlu, directed by Lukas Langhoff. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2011 Rita. Opéra Comique by Gaetano Donizetti directed by Maria Magdalena Kwaschik. Grüner Salon, Volksbühne Berlin. Dramaturgy.
2011 Europera 3. Opera by John Cage directed by Maria-Magdalena Kwaschik. Comical Opera / HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theatre / University of the Arts / Music Academy “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Dramaturgy.

PRODUCTION, ASSISTANT, SURTITLING, INTERNSHIPS

2011 Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood). Theatre play by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje. Postmigrant Theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße / Ruhrtriennale. Invited to Theatertreffen 2011. Assistant Dramaturg.
2011 Who’s Afraid of Representation by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh. Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin. Surtitles.
2011 Werkstatt irakisches Theater (Workshop Iraqi Theatre). Directed by Kai Tuchmann. Funded by Goethe Institute. Executive Procucer, Assistant Director.
2010 Schwarze Jungfrauen (Black Virgins). Theatre play by Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel directed by Neco Celik. Beyond Belonging Festival Hebbel am Ufer / Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Berlin. Play of the year award, invited to Mühlheimer Theatertage.
2009 Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken (The Fairytale of the Last Thought). Theatre play adapted from the novel by Edgar Hilsenrath directed by Miraz Bezar. Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin. Assistant Director.
2009 Dritte Generation (Third Generation). Documentary Theatre by Yael Ronen & Company. Schaubühne Berlin / Habimah (Tel Aviv). Assistant Director.
2008 8. Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik (8^th Festival of International New Drama). Theatrefestival curated by Irina Szodruch. Schaubühne Berlin. Dramaturgy Internship.