About the person
Curriculum vitae
Studied literature/theater/film, visual arts, political science and philosophy at the University of Hildesheim and Creative and Performing Arts at St. Johns University of York/Englandfrom 1996-2001 as part of the study program Applied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice.
Completed her studies with the diploma thesis Theatrical Confrontation with Media Reality - The Scenic Procedures of Elfriede Jelinek's "Stecken, Stab und Stangl" and Thirza Bruncken's production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Christoph Schlingensief's "Bitte liebt Österreich! First European Coalition Week".
During his studies he founded the performance ensemble 3%XTRA! with Christian Kumm and Bettina Land. Before, during and after his studies, numerous independent scenic projects in various contexts and constellations as well as work as an actor, dramaturge and theater and media educator.
From 2003 - 2006 doctoral scholarship holder at the University of Hildesheim and work on the dissertation "Kanzlerdarstellungen im Fernsehen. Inszenierung, Rolle, Figur" (published in 2009 under the title: "Die deutschen Kanzler im Fernsehen. Theatrical representation strategies of politicians in the key medium of post-war history, transcript: Bielefeld).
2007 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Faculty of Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim.
From 2009 - 2012 research assistant for theory and practice of scenic representation at the Institute for Media and Theater at the University of Hildesheim Foundation.
From October 2012 to August 2013 substitute professor for ethics and education at Fachhochschule Dortmund
Since September 2013 Professor of Cultural Studies with a focus on Art and Participation at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies at Fachhochschule Dortmund
Research
Publications
Monograph
- C. Scheurle, Die deutschen Kanzler im Fernsehen. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009.Open publication
Anthology contribution
- C. Scheurle, “Den Dilettantismus feiern - statt negieren!,” in ixypsilonzett. Theater für junges Publikum Jahrbuch 2023, Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2023, pp. 19–21.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “How dare we? Eine zukünftige Ästhetik des Kinder- und Jugendtheaters wagen,” in Kids on stage, Bielefeld: ATHENA, 2022, pp. 207–220.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Haltung zeigen? - Theater als selbstreflexive Praxis zwischen Verschwinden und Erstarrung,” in Positionen und Perspektiven der Theaterpädagogik, Uckerland OT Milow: Schibri-Verlag, 2021, pp. 278–290.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Gegen:Haltung!,” in Haltung(en) : Perspektiven auf die Selbst-Positionierung der Theatervermittlung, München: kopaed, 2021, pp. 147–164.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Inside the Museum of Me - Biografieren im Online-Zeitalter,” in BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne, München: kopaed, 2020, pp. 45–58.Open publication
- N. Köhler, C. Scheurle, and M. Hinz, “Einleitung: BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne,” in BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne, München: kopaed, 2020, pp. 7–16.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Das Forschen aller?,” in Forschendes Theater in sozialen Feldern, München: kopaed, 2018, pp. 273–286.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Politik, Kommunikation und Medien in ‘Aggregat,’” in Film des Monats November 2018: “Aggregat,” Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2018, pp. 7–8.Open publication
- M. Hinz, M. Kranixfeld, N. Köhler, and C. Scheurle, “Vom Zauberwort ‘Forschendes Theater’ und dem Versuch einer wissenschaftlich-künstlerischen Bestandsaufnahme,” in Forschendes Theater in sozialen Feldern, München: kopaed, 2018, pp. 21-21?30.Open publication
- B. Bicker and C. Scheurle, “Sich selbst abschaffen - für ein Theater des Verzichts,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 173–182.Open publication
- K. Marsch and C. Scheurle, “Gescheitert ist man, wenn man sich begrenzt hat - Partizipation im Labor,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 199–204.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Einleitung: Partizipation/Partizipatives Theater,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 13–24.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Kunst als politische Partizipation - politische Partizipation als Kunst?,” in Illusion Partizipation - Zukunft Partizipation : (wie) macht Kulturelle Bildung unsere Gesellschaft jugendgerechter?, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 117–126.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, M. Hinz, and N. Köhler, “Vorwort,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 7–12.Open publication
- M. Tscholl and C. Scheurle, “Die Pluralität einer Stadtgesellschaft abbilden - das Modell Bürgerbühne,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 183–190.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Partizipative Praxen im Spannungsfeld von Theater, Politik und Pädagogik,” in Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 37–50.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Jenseits der Ästhetik,” in Kritische Kulturpädagogik, München: kopaed, 2017, pp. 163–170.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Beteiligung,” in Partizipation als Programm, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017, pp. 147–160.Open publication
- M. Hinz, O. Hruschka, U. Jäckle, J. Kiefer, N. Köhler, C. Lutz-Scheurle, F. Matzke, D. Roesner, W. Sting, and J. Speckmann, “Zwischen Leben und Lehre,” in Theatermachen als Beruf, Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2017, pp. 54–69.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Reenactments und serielle Wiederholungen im politischen Alltagsgeschäft als Kommunikationsbrücken zwischen Politikern und Bevölkerung,” in Authentizität und Wiederholung : künstlerische und kulturelle Manifestationen eines Paradoxes, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013, pp. 237–254.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Staatstheater - ein Baustein zur Politik als Inszenierung,” in Theater probieren - Politik entdecken, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2011, pp. 103–126.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Top Gun, Klimaretter, Hamlet,” in Welt - Bild - Theater, Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2010, pp. 313–328.Open publication
Conference paper
- C. Scheurle, “Why? Because we can!,” in Our stage, 2019, pp. 37–42.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Symbolische Politik,” in Revisionen - Relektüren - Perspektiven, 2012, pp. 262–275.Open publication
Journal article
- S. Kündiger and C. Scheurle, “As you fucking like it,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, no. 54, pp. 34–37, 2023.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Sitzen bleiben, bis es passt,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, no. 54, pp. 44–45, 2023.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Shakespeare improvisieren!,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, no. 54, pp. 12–15, 2023.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Reden wir darüber,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, no. 44, pp. 28–29, 2021.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Crisis, what crisis? Die Krise als ‘natürlicher’ Zustand des theaterpädagogischen Projekts,” Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik : Korrespondenzen, no. 79, pp. 24–27, 2021.Open publication
- "Der Gegenstand unserer Pflege ist das Schauspiel, nicht das Drama"Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “In den Echokammern des Schultheaters oder: Wo ist Raum für den Diskurs?,” Fokus Schultheater : Online-Magazin für Theater und ästhetische Bildung, vol. 19, 2020.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Systemcheck: Pose: perfekt - Politik: peripher,” Fokus Schultheater : Zeitschrift für Theater und ästhetische Bildung, vol. 18, pp. 40–51, 2019.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Theater als künstlerisch-soziale Praxis,” IXYPSILONZETT : Magazin für Kinder- und Jugendtheater, no. 1, pp. 15–16, 2019.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Theater-Spiel-Raum,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, vol. 2018, no. 33, pp. 4–7, 2018.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Im Namen des Theaters! Im Namen des Films!,” Fokus Schultheater : Zeitschrift für Theater und ästhetische Bildung, vol. 17, pp. 42–49, 2018.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Scheurle, Christoph: Kunst als partizipative und politische Strategie,” eNewsletter Wegweiser Bürgergesellschaft, no. 2, pp. 1–7, 2018.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Der Gestus der Sprache,” Fokus Schultheater : Zeitschrift für Theater und ästhetische Bildung, vol. 2017, no. 16, pp. 37–41, 2017.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Protest, Provokation, Postdramatik, Performance,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, vol. 2017, no. 29, pp. 34–37, 2017.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Forschen, Fernsehen, Vorurteile,” Fokus Schultheater : Zeitschrift für Theater und ästhetische Bildung, vol. 15 (2016), pp. 41–45, 2016.Open publication
- "Die Systeme zum Tanzen bringen!"Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Was ist ästhetische Bildung?,” PADUA : Fachzeitschrift für Pflegepädagogik, Patientenedukation und -bildung, vol. 10 (2015), no. 1, pp. 5–11, 2015.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Erzähltheater und Stückentwicklung,” Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik : Korrespondenzen, no. 62, pp. 40–44, 2013.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Partizipation im Theater - zwischen Spiel und Wirklichkeit,” Kunst und Kirche : Magazin für Kritik, Ästhetik und Religion, no. 1, pp. 24–28, 2012.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, “Rezension zu: Pia Janke/Teresa Kovacs (Hg.): Der Gesamtkünstler Christoph Schlingensief,” Rezens.tfm : e-Journal für wissenschaftliche Rezensionen, no. 2, p. ohne Seitenangabe-ohne Seitenangabe, 2012.Open publication
Anthology
- N. Köhler, C. Scheurle, and M. Hinz, Eds., BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne. München: kopaed, 2020.Open publication
- C. Scheurle, M. Hinz, and N. Köhler, Eds., BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne. München: kopaed, 2018.Open publication
- M. Hinz, M. Kranixfeld, N. Köhler, and C. Scheurle, Eds., Forschendes Theater in sozialen Feldern. München: kopaed, 2018.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, M. Hinz, and N. Köhler, Eds., Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen. München: kopaed, 2017.Open publication
Issue/special issue of a magazine
- S. Kündiger, C. Scheurle, and M. Weig, Eds., “Shakespeare,” Schultheater : Wahrnehmung, Gestaltung, Spiel, no. 54, 2023.Open publication
Article in scientific blogs
- C. Scheurle and D. Cosic, “Auf Augenhöhe gemeinsam entscheiden? Begleitforschung zur Jury-Arbeit beim Deutschen Kinder-Theater-Fest (DKTF).” 2022 [Online]. Available: https://www.kubi-online.de/artikel/augenhoehe-gemeinsam-entscheiden-begleitforschung-zur-jury-arbeit-deutschen-kinder-theaterOpen publication
- C. Scheurle, “Duran Adam - Standing Man.” 2016 [Online]. Available: https://nomoi.hypotheses.org/751Open publication
Working paper/research report
- C. Lutz-Scheurle and D. Cosic, “Auf Augenhöhe gemeinsam entscheiden?,” 2022.Open publication
Sound collection
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Podcast: Die Künste in der Krise: Sebastian Richter, Lektor und Literaturagent; NR.Wision: https://www.nrwision.de/mediathek/die-kuenste-in-der-krise-sebastian-richter-lektor-und-literaturagent-230130/. 2023 [Online]. Available: https://www.nrwision.de/mediathek/die-kuenste-in-der-krise-sebastian-richter-lektor-und-literaturagent-230130/Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Shahram Mokri, Regisseur und Filmemacher aus dem Iran Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Peter Stamm, Schriftsteller aus der Schweiz Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Andres Veiel, Regisseur aus Berlin Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Andreas Dresen, Filmregisseur aus Potsdam Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Stina Werenfels, Filmemacherin aus der Schweiz Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Thomas Oberender, Berliner Festspiele Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Matthias Lilienthal, Dramaturg Podcast-Reihe von Christoph Lutz-Scheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Die Künste in der Krise: Florian Fiedler, Theater Oberhausen Podcast-Reihe von Christoph LutzScheurle & Studierenden des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften an der FH Dortmund. 2023.Open publication
Scientific lecture
- Getting involved!Open publication
Organization of exhibition, workshop, congress, trade fair
- Acting in the Now/Performing the FutureOpen publication
- same but different.Open publication
Miscellaneous
- C. Lutz-Scheurle, Wissenschaftliches Mitglied des Kuratoriums des Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrums der BRDeutschland - KJTZ. 2023.Open publication
Monographs and editorships
BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne - Theater als Soziale Kunst I, Kopaed Verlag: Munich 2020, editorship with Norma Köhler and Melanie Hinz.
Forschendes Theater in Sozialen Feldern - Theater als Soziale Kunst III, Kopaed Verlag: Munich, KoPaed 2018, editorship with Melanie Hinz, Michael Kranixfeld and Norma Köhler.
Partizipation: teilhaben/teilnehmen - Theater als Soziale Kunst II, KoPaed Verlag: Munich 2017, editorship with Norma Köhler and Melanie Hinz
The German chancellors on television. Theatrical Representation Strategies of Politicians in the Key Medium of Post-War History, transcript: Bielefeld 2009 https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8394-1052-3(Opens in a new tab)
Essays
2021
How Dare we? Daring a future aesthetic of children's and youth theater - a plea for disorderly conditions. (AT) In: Kristin Westphal, Birgit Althans, Matthias Dreyer & Melanie Hinz (eds.): Kids on Stage. Series: Theater. Dance. Performance, Athena-Verlag: Oberhausen. (In preparation)
Showing attitude? Theater as a self-reflexive practice between pose and attitude. In: Ina Driemel, Johannes Kup, Ute Pinkert (eds.): Positionen und Perspektiven der Theaterpädagogik. Festschrift for Ulrike Hentschel. Milow: Schibri 2021.
Deciding together at eye level? - Final research report for the BMFSFJ and for the BAG Spiel und Theater on the participatory videographic field observation of the selection process of the jury of children and adults for the 8th German Children's Theater Festival 2018 in Minden. At: https://www.kubi-online.de(Opens in a new tab) (Together with Daniel Cosic. To be published)
Against:Attitude! Theater in the context of social work. In: Dorothea Wieser and Mathias Spaniel (eds.): HALTUNG(en) - Perspektiven auf die Selbst-Positionierung der Theatervermittlung. Munich: KOPAED, PP. 147-163.
Let's talk about it. Critical reflections on discourse practice in specialist forums. In: SchulTheater 44/2021, p. 28-29.
2020
"The object of our care is the play, not the drama". Martin Luserke's theory of movement play. In: SchoolTheater 42/2020, p. 2 - 3.
Inside the "Museum of Me" - Biography in the online age. In: Norma Köhler, Christoph Scheurle, Melanie Hinz (eds.): BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne - Theater als Soziale Kunst I, KoPaed Verlag: Munich 2020, p. 45 - 58.
Introduction: BIOGRAPHIES on the stage. In: Norma Köhler, Christoph Scheurle, Melanie Hinz (eds.): BIOGRAPHIES on the Stage - Theater as Social Art I, KoPaed Verlag: Munich
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Publication list Prof. Dr. Christoph Lutz-Scheurle As of: 17-05-2021 2020, p. 7 - 14. (With Norma Köhler and Melanie Hinz)
In the echo chambers of school theater or: Where is space for discourse? In: Online magazine for theater and aesthetic education: Raum.Bühne Published by the Bundesverband Theater in Schulen e.V. (BVTS). 2020. URL: https://www.fokus-schultheater.de/inhalt/essay.
2019
Why? Because we can! The citizens' stage in search of aesthetic answers to social questions. In: Our Stage, 4th European Citizens' Stage Festival, documentation published by Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Miram Tscholl, p. 37-42.
Why? Because we can! The citizens' stage in search of aesthetic answers to social questions. In: Our Stage, 4th European Bürgerbühne Festival, Documentation, edited by Staatsschauspiel Dresden & Miriam Tscholl, pp. 137-141.
System check. Pose: perfect - politics: peripheral. In: Focus on school theater. Journal for Theater and Aesthetic Education: Theater.Politik 18/2019, p.46-50.
Theater as artistic-social practice. In: XYPSILONZETT | 01.2019 | 15, p. 15-16.
2018
Politics, communication and media (background report on the documentary film "Aggregat by Marie Wilke", FRG 2018). In: Film of the Month November 2018; p. 7-8. Available at: www.kinofenster.de; [URL: https://www.kinofenster.de/download/kf1811-aggregat- fh-pdf/]
In the name of theater! In the name of film! A show process in film and theater. In: Fokus Schultheater, Journal for Theater and Aesthetic Education: Theater.Film 17/2018, pp. 42-50.
The research of all? A discursive analysis of forms of participation in research-based theater. In: Melanie Hinz, Michael Kranixfeld, Christoph Scheurle and Norma Köhler (eds.): Forschendes Theater in Sozialen Feldern - Theater als Soziale Kunst III, Kopaed Verlag: Munich, pp. 279-291.
On the magic word of research-based theater and the attempt at a scientific-artistic inventory. In: Melanie Hinz, Michael Kranixfeld, Christoph Scheurle and Norma Köhler (eds.): Forschendes Theater in Sozialen Feldern - Theater als Soziale Kunst III, Kopaed Verlag: Munich, pp. 21-30. (with Melanie Hinz, Michael Kranixfeld and Norma Köhler)
Theater-Play-Space. The space as a player. In: SchoolTheater 33/2018, p. 4-7.
Art as a participatory and political strategy. In: eNewsletter Wegweiser Bürgergesellschaft 02/2018 from 21.02.2018. [URL: https://www.buergergesellschaft.de/fileadmin/pdf/gastbeitrag_scheurle_180221.pdf]
Performance, art and youth worlds. In: Program booklet UNART, published by the BHF-Bank Foundation 2018, p. 19-21.
2017
Participatory practices in the field of tension between theater, politics and pedagogy. In: Christoph Scheurle/Melanie Hinz/Norma Köhler (eds.): PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen. Theater as Social Art II, Munich 2017, pp. 37-50.
Participation/Participative theater. In: Christoph Scheurle/Melanie Hinz/Norma Köhler (eds.): PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen. Theater as Social Art II, Munich 2017, pp. 13-21.
Beyond aesthetics - The de-artification of art through politics. In: Max Fuchs & Tom Braun (eds.): Kritische Kulturpädagogik ; Gesellschaft - Bildung - Kultur, Munich 2017, pp. 163-170.
Participation. Promises of participation and the difficulty of keeping them. In: Wolfgang Schneider / Anna Eitzeroth (eds.): Participation as a program. Wege ins Theater für Kinder und Jugendliche, Bielefeld 2017, pp. 147-160.
Between life and teaching. In: Schneider, Wolfgang and Speckmann, Julia (eds.): Theater machen als Beruf, Berlin 2017, (together with: Hruschka, O., Roesner, D., Jäckle, U., Sting, W., Köhler, N., Hinz, M., Speckmann, Kiefer, J., and Matzke, F) pp. 54-70.
The gesture of language. In: Focus on school theater. Journal for Theater and Aesthetic Education: Theater.Sprache 16/2017, p. 37-42.
Art as Political Participation - Political Participation as Art? In: Tom Braun / Kirsten Witt (eds.) Illusion Participation - Future Participation, Munich 2017, pp. 117- 125.
Politics as theater - theater as politics? In: SchoolTheater 29/2017, p. 34-38.
2010-2016
Research, television, prejudices - (media) theater between indignation and temptation. In: Focus on school theater. Journal for Theater and Aesthetic Education: 15/2016, p. 41-45.
Duran Adam - Standing Man.
in: Aesthetics of Resistance, Pictorial Glossary, The Nomos of Images, 21 March 2016. [URL: http://nomoi.hypotheses.org/751]
Making the systems dance - from invasion to dispersion from resistance to contradiction. In: kritische berichte, vol. 44, 1.2016, pp. 20-30. Available online at: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kb/issue/view/3105.
Portrait Leadership Styles and Representation in Art and Politics - Questions for Christoph Scheurle. In: Local conversation of knowledge. Portrait, Leadership Style and Representation in Art and Politics, edited by Thomas Niemeyer, Städtische Galerien Nordhorn 2015, pp. 8-11.
What is aesthetic education? In: Padua, journal for nursing education, patient education and training, 10 (1), 2015, pp. 5-11.
Narrative theater and play development using the example of a workshop as part of "Abenteuer Kultur". In: Correspondences. Journal for Theater Pedagogy, 29th vol., issue 62, 2013, pp. 40-44.
Reenactments and serial repetitions in everyday political business as communication bridges between politicians and the population. In: Uta Daur (ed.): Authentizität und Wiederholung; Künstlerische und kulturelle Manifestationen eines Paradoxes, Bielefeld: transcript 2013, pp. 237-254.
Symbolic politics in television. In: Simon Fritsch and Tim Raupach (eds.): Revisionen - Relektüren - Perspektiven; Dokumentation des 23. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kollogiums, Marburg: Schüren-Verlag 2012, pp. 262-275.
What is a frame? - Reflections on conundrums between theater and politics as media events. In: SAGEN WIR WIE; der Theaterpädagogische Salon, published by Theater an der Parkaue, n.d.; pp. 12-13.
Participation in theater - between ritual and play. In: kunst und kirche, ecumenical journal for contemporary art and architecture, thematic issue on participation, issue 1/2012, pp. 24-28.
State theater. In: Ole Hruschka, Doris Post and Geesche Wartemann(eds.): "Theater pro- bieren, Politik entdecken", Federal Agency for Civic Education: Bonn 2011, pp. 103-125.
Report from (k)einer Akademie - The Theater an der Parkaue. In: Wolfgang Schneider and Meike Fechner (eds.): Jahrbuch für Kinder- und Jugendtheater Grimm & Grips 2011 "Theater und Schule", ASSITEJ: Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 97-109 (with Annemarie Matzke).
Top Gun, Klimaretter, Hamlet - The role-playing games of politicians. In: Kati Röttger (ed.): "Welt- Bild-Theater", Volume 1 "Politik der Medien und Kulturen des Wissens", Narr Francke Attempo: Tübingen 2010, pp. 313-328.
Lectures
2020
Taking part is (not) everything! - Participatory processes in theater pedagogy. Keynote speech at the anniversary conference "30 Jahre BuT - woher? wohin?" of the Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik on November 27, 2020.
Participation for the future. Participating, shaping, deciding in children's and youth theater. Keynote speech for the ASSITEJ workshop at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden on November 7, 2020.
Work in progess. On the art of teaching performance art: pedagogical qualities and artistic self-image of professionals. Lecture at the symposium "Zur neuen Rolle des Performativen. The interdisciplinary potential in cultural education. By: PROQUA "Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung" and the Akademie für Kulturelle Bildung Remscheid on 14.09.2020 in Stuttgart.
What must art do, what can education do? And: What can the independent performing arts actually achieve in cultural education? Three theses on the tense relationship between the arts and social issues. Lecture as part of UTOPIA.JETZT - Bundeskongress der freien darstellenden Künste at HAU Hebbel am Ufer for the event "Schlusspunkt zur Kulturellen Bildung" on January 18, 2020. (Documentation: https://utopia-jetzt.de/de/programm/kulturelle-bildung/schlusspunkt- zur-kulturellen-bildung)
2019
Everyone joins in? Participation as an artistic mediation task.
Keynote speech at the conference "Involving, giving freedom, making art - forms of cooperation between art and cultural education" at Maschinenhaus Essen on 5.11.2019.
Political rituals and stagings of power in global comparison.
Panel contribution and poster presentation for the exhibition of the same name at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen on 16.10.2019.
Research on cultural education.
Panel contribution to the final conference of the BMBF funding priority of the same name 2017-2019 on 9.10.2019.
Showing attitude? Questions that (and that) theater pedagogy should ask itself. Keynote at the workshop conference "HALTUNG(en) - Perspektiven auf die Selbst- Positionierung der Theatervermittlung", from September 18 to 20, 2019 at the TU Dresden as part of the "Ständige Konferenz Spiel & Theater".
Theatre as Social Art.
Panel contribution to the panel THEATRE AND SOCIAL WORK as part of "Our Stage" - the 4th Bürger*innenbühnen Festival on 24.05.2019 in Dresden.
Imagining yourself - doing the wrong thing at the right moment and vice versa.
Lecture as part of the event series "Karriere als KuWi" on May 3 in Hildesheim.
...because they don't (yet) know what they are doing! Theater as a self-reflective practice between pose and attitude. Lecture held on April 14, 2019 as part of the symposium "Positions and Perspectives of Theater Pedagogy" from April 12 - 14, 2019 at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Art as aesthetic education.
Panel contribution in the panel "Bitte schön aufmucken! Art as politics and political education" as part of the 14th Federal Congress of Political Education 2019 "What moves us. Emotions in politics and society" on March 9, 2019 (URL: https://www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/dokumentation/277652/sektion-12-bitte-schoen- aufmucken-kunst-als-politik-und-politische-bildung-haendel-saal)
Practical examples of participatory theater work with young people. - Presentation of the results of the scientific research accompanying the equal representation jury as part of the 8th German Children's Theater Festival.
As part of the symposium: "Gestaltungs(t)räume. Participation as a basic principle of theater work by and with children." on February 23, 2019 at the LWL-Bildungszentrum Jugendhof Vlotho.
2018
Dangerous encounters? Some observations on political and artistic strategies between theater and politics.
Lecture held on 6.5.2018 at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg as part of the qualification program "weiter schauen bilden" of the Landeszentrum Spiel und Theater Sachsen-Anhalt and the student council of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
2017
Beyond politics, beyond aesthetics? Some questions and comments on the relationship between theater and politics
Lecture held on 17.11.2017 as part of the 2017 theater pedagogical symposium: "Theater und politische Bildung"/Oldenburg.
Losing Identity Through Politics? - some remarks on the issue of Identity in the Realm of Arts
Lecture held on August 26 as part of the German-Polish artists' symposium SPACE IDENTITY - PreMeditationes from August 23-27, 2017 Tabakfabrik Vierraden/Schwedt/Oder.
Lexicon of participation. Terms and their backgrounds. Lecture held as part of the conference "Participation" on 8.4.2017 at the Theater an der Parkaue/Berlin
2007-2016
PARTICIPATION RULES?¡? Participation as a state and a system of rules. Lecture at the symposium on dance and theater at the Bundesakadmie Remscheidt on 12.11.2016
"To ask the systems for a dance" - from invasion to dispersion, from resistance to contradiction / "Die Systeme zum Tanzen bringen! From invasion to dispersion, from resistance to contradiction" Lecture on 12.12.2015 as part of the symposium: On the aesthetics of resistance at the Max Planck Institute in Florence/Italy
In the thicket of things and signs - participation as dissent. Keynote on 18.12.2015 at the opening of the conference "PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen" from 18 - 19.11.2015 at Fachhochschule Dortmund
"Als wär's ein Stück von mir" - reality tv als selbstreferentielles Bildungsfernsehen. Lecture held on 10.10.2015 as part of the conference "Let me entertain you - zum Verhältnis von Kultureller Bildung und Populärer Kultur" at the University of Hildesheim Foundation.
What is this, which I see before me? Some remarks on the perception of performances. Keynote at the opening of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2015 on 22.04.2015 in Berlin.
From co-presence to synchronicity? Participation, Liveness and Mediality in Theater. Lecture held on 26.09.2014 at the 12th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft "Episteme des Theaters" at the Ruhruniversität Bochum.
Performing the Rhomb. On Politics, Identity and the Arts.on 4.09.2014 as part of the symposium "Kunst und Identität - Art and Identity" at the Tabakfabrik e.V., Vierraden.
Das Theater im Sozialen - Theater als Soziale Kunst. keynote at the opening of the conference "Das Theater im Sozialen" on 14.11.2014 at the Hochschule der Künste in Ottersberg.
Cultural and aesthetic education as a catalyst for social and ecnomic development? on 19.11.2014 at the s&d Conference "Culture as a dynamic social and economic tool" at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Inside the "Museum of Me" - Biografieren im Online-Zeitalter. on 25.10.2014 as part of the conference "Biografieren auf der Bühne" - Theater als Soziale Kunst at the Fachhochschule Dortmund.
WYSIWYG? Notes on performance analysis. Keynote at the opening of the 6th German Children's Theater Festival "Entdeckst Du was?" on 16.10.2014 at the JES in Stuttgart.
Being Angele Merkel - Angela Merkel Olmak. on 16.11.2013 at the 23rd annual conference of Cagdas Drama Dernegli (Society for Contemporary Theater - Turkey) from 14.11. to 17.11.2013 at Ankara University/Turkey.
La réunificitation - ce moi! Performing Identity in Politics in German TV-Electioncampaigns. on 14.12.2012 at the Euroacademia Global Forum of Criticial Studies (13. - 15.12.2012/Prague)
Übung macht den Menschen - Peter Sloterdejks "Du musst dein Leben ändern!" Held on 25.4.2012 as part of the lecture series "Arbeit(er)finden" (SoSe 2012) at the University of Hildesheim Foundation.
framed - Vexierspiele zwischen Medienevent, Politik und Theater. as part of the 2nd Theaterpädagogischer Salon: "Was ist ein Rahmen? Inputs - Workshops - Reflections" on 2.7.2011 at the Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin
(Re-)enactments in everyday political business as communication bridges between politics and the population
Interdisciplinary conference "Authenticity / Repetition: Artistic and cultural manifestations of a paradox" from December 2-4, 2010 at the FU Berlin
There aint no way out? - Loss of subject and reconstruction in current forms of theater. 10th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft: "Theater und Subjektkonstitution" from 28-23.10.2010 at the University of Mainz
Performative formats of art mediation at the Theater an der Parkaue. With Karola Marsch; "Theater and School. A state conference." An ASSITEJ e.V. event in cooperation with the Schauburg, Theater der Jugend in Munich and the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim Foundation. From 22-23.10.2010 at the University of Munich
The theater of Rimini-Protokoll as post-epic performances,
Lecture at the annual conference of the Irish Society for Theatre Research: "Performance as Event and Its Technologies of Representation" from April 22-24, 2010 at the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin/Ireland
Politik als legitimes Theater - epische und dramatische Narrationsformen von Politik im Fernsehen, lecture at the 23rd Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium 2010 at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, 17-19.03.2010
The fine line - on-acting and off-acting of public figures on television. Held in the Ringlokschuppen Müllheim an der Ruhr as part of the theater seminar "Theatertheorie und Theaterpraxis" for the scholarship holders of the Brombacher Scholarship Program of the Ruhr University Bochum, from 9-10.05.2009
Chancellor portrayals on television - staging, role, figure. Lecture given at the conference ORBIS PICTUS ~ THEATRUM MUNDI of the annual conference of the Theaterwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft; from 23.-26.10.2008 in Amsterdam
Wahlkampf-Theater, lecture at the doctoral colloquium of the Institute for Media and Theater of the University of Hildesheim Foundation; 27.01.2007 in Berlin
Interviews
"Abolishing oneself" - for a theater of renunciation ; Björn Bicker in conversation with Christoph Scheurle. In: Christoph Scheurle/Melanie Hinz/Norma Köhler (eds.): PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen. Theater als Soziale Kunst II, kopaed Verlag: Munich 2017, pp. 173-182.
"Depicting the plurality of an urban society" - The model of the citizens' stage; Miriam Tscholl in conversation with Christoph Scheurle. In: Christoph Scheurle/Melanie Hinz/Norma Köhler (eds.): PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen. Theater als Soziale Kunst II, kopaed Verlag: Munich 2017, pp. 183-190.
"You have failed when you have limited yourself" - Participation in the laboratory; Karola Marsch in conversation with Christoph Scheurle. In: Christoph Scheurle/Melanie Hinz/Norma Köhler (eds.): PARTIZIPATION: teilhaben/teilnehmen. Theater als Soziale Kunst II, kopaed Verlag: Munich 2017, pp. 199-204.
"Stage and play are no contradiction to the serious". Interview with Ronald Klein on the performance strategies of politicians in election campaigns, on: kinofenster.de on 13.07.2017 [URL: http://www.kinofenster.de/themen-dossiers/aktuelles-dossier/dossier-film-politik- wahlkampf-interview-christoph-scheurle/]
On truthfulness, uniqueness and authenticity - researchers discuss authenticity and repetition at a conference. Interview within the contribution by Isabel Fannrich-Lautenschläger for STUDIOZEIT in: Deutschlandfunk, 09.12.2010
Versed technocrat, but never a shining light, interview with Michael Rösener on the presentation strategies of politicians in the TAZ of August 15/16, 2009, p. 25
Reviews
Homeland care as a theater program? IXYPSILONZETT Yearbook for Children's and Youth Theater of ASSITEJ Germany 2019. Edited by Wolfgang Schneider. Published in: Korrespondenzen - Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik, issue 74, October 2019.
K_eine Didaktik der performativen Künste ; Theaterpädagogisch handeln im Framing von Risk, Rules, Reality und Rhythm, Berlin / Milow / Strasburg: Schibri Verlag 2017 by Dorothea Hilliger. Published in: Korrespondenzen - Journal for Theater Pedagogy, Issue 72/2017
Bilder des Menschen : Imaginäre und performative Grundlagen by Christoph Wulf, transcript: Bielefeld 2015. Published on 1.5.2015 at www.theaterforschung.de [URL: http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=2138]
Die Kunst des Kollektiven: Performance zwischen Theater, Politik und Sozio-Ökonomie by Kai van Eikels, Fink: Munich; published on 20.10.2018 at: www.theaterforschung.de
Der Gesamtkünstler Christoph Schlingensief, edited by Pia Janke/Teresa Kovacs, Vienna: Praesens 2011; Published on Dec. 11, 2012 ON: rezenstfm.univie.ac.at, e-journal for academic reviews; URL: [http://rezenstfm.univie.ac.at/rezens.php?action=rezension&rez_id=260]
spielend denken : theater pedagogical approaches to the dramaturgy of rehearsal by Mira Sack, transcript: Bielefeld 2011; In: Korrespondenzen - Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik, issue 61, October 2012, pp. 82-84.
Die Kunst der Bühne, Positionen des zeitgenössischen Theaters, edited by Marion Tiedtke and Philipp Schulte, collective review; published on www.theaterforschung.de, [URL: http://theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=136]
Rolf Hochhuth:Theater als politische Anstalt edited by Ilse Nagel-schmidt, Sven Neufert and Gerd Ueding, Denkena Verlag: Weimar 2010; published on www.theaterforschung.de [URL: http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=965]
Schauspielen, Gestalten des Selbst Zwischen Sollen und Sein by Hugo Habig Universitätsverlag Winter: Heidelberg 2010; published on www.theaterforschung.de [URL: http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=1136]
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