Anne John

Anne John, born and raised in Märkisch-Oderland, studied Romance languages and literature and German Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2014-2017 she worked at the International Theatre Institute (ITI), primarily as a production manager. She supervised several international symposia, the conference "Theatre in Contemporary Europe" (2016 Hildesheim) and two awards of the "Theaterpreis des Bundes" (2015 Berlin | 2017 Stendal). In addition, she coordinated the production of publications, such as "Das Freie Theater im Europa der Gegenwart" (Bielefeld dt. 2016 |engl. 2017), which presents the research results of the Balzan Prize research project headed by Prof. Dr. Manfred Brauneck. In 2017, she supervised events in the series "Tanz medial" (Berlin | Leipzig) for the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland and headed the editorial team of the publication "Tanzland-Reader". This was followed in 2018 by a research project for the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste on continuing education opportunities in the independent performing arts. Since 2015, she has also worked for the Initiative for the Archives of Free Theater, in whose study "Performing the Archive" (Hildesheim 2018) she contributed and for which she organized, among other things, the conception conference (2017 | Munich) and workshops (Cologne | Düsseldorf | Hamburg). Since 2018 she has been working for the Fonds in the field of event management and public relations.