Haiko Pfost

Haiko Pfost (*1972 in the Black Forest) is a trained industrial clerk and studied theater and religious studies as well as psychology in Berlin. He worked as a festival dramaturge at the Theaterformen festival in Braunschweig and Hanover (2003/04), at steirischer herbst in Graz (2005-2006), at the International Schiller Days in Mannheim (2007 and 2009), and in 2010/11 as a member of the program jury of the Politik im Freien Theater festival. In 2004/05 he was director of the opening, dramaturg and curator of the Volkspalast, the cultural interim use of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. Together with Thomas Frank he founded brut - Koproduktionshaus Wien in 2007 and directed the house until 2013. In 2009 they received the Nestroy Special Award for the best program. From 2014 to 2017 he worked as a freelance curator, dramaturg, lecturer and consultant, including as director of the three-year workshop and development program The Autonomous Actor (2015-2018) in Finland. He was a jury member for bestOFFstyria, Performancepreis H13 as well as Hauptsache Frei and teaches at A!DRAMA - applied dramaturgy in music and performing arts in Vienna. For the festival editions 2018 to 2023 Haiko Pfost is artistic director of the Impulse Theater Festival.