Anna Volkland

Anna Volkland studied dramaturgy in Leipzig (2009 diploma thesis "Theater ohne Bühne") and dance studies in Berlin. She has since worked as a dramaturge and curator for drama, dance, and unusual theatrical formats, among other things, and has been writing about theater and dance since 2010. From 2014 to 2020, she was a research associate at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she began conducting research on the history of institutional critique in urban theater in the FRG and GDR since the late 1960s. There she also initiated, among others, the biennial symposium "Performances of [Femininity] in the Performing Arts" (2016 - 2022 ff) and supported the qualification program Artist Training for refugee artists* as module leader for Performing Arts until 2019. She teach(es) among others critical theater history, extended performance analysis or experimental interdisciplinary artistic practice and teaches as guest lecturer, since 2019 for example at the HfS "Ernst Busch" Berlin. From 2016 texts, later also lectures on questions of power-critical, democratic modes of organization and (artistic) work in theater.