Dr.
Maximilian Haas

Maximilian Haas is a theater/media scholar and dramaturg living in Berlin. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group "The Knowledge of the Arts" at the Berlin University of the Arts. Haas studied applied theater studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and received his doctorate from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne with a practice-based dissertation on "Animals on Stage: An Aesthetic Ecology of Performance." His scholarly research includes the theory and practice of dramaturgy in contemporary dance and theater, the aesthetics of performative arts, the methodology and epistemology of artistic research, science and animal studies, and ecocritical discourses. The current project deals with aesthetic knowledge and artistic action in the new climate regime from a performancetheoretical perspective. Haas was engaged at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz Berlin and the Berliner Festspiele and collaborated dramaturgically with artists such as Hannah Hurtzig (Mobile Academy Berlin), Lucie Tuma, Martin Nachbar and Jeremy Wade. Since 2018, he has curated the discourse series "Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence" with Margarita Tsomou at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.