Prof. Dr.
Melanie Hinz

Melanie Hinz has been Professor of Theater Pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2020. In teaching and research, she works primarily on power-critical/intersectional perspectives on theater education and theater. Melanie Hinz studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim, where she completed her PhD on discourses of prostitution in 19th century and contemporary theater (transcript 2014). From 2013-2020 she was professor for "Visual and Performative Arts in Cultural Work" at the FH Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and co-editor of the kopaed book series " Theater als Soziale Kunst" with the focus on "BIOGRAFIEren auf der Bühne", "Participation: teilhaben/participate" and "Forschendes Theater in Sozialen Feldern". She is a member of the network " Forschung im Kinder- und Jugendtheater" (research in children's and young people's theater). Since 2004 she is a founding member and performer of the collective Frl. Wunder AG and develops research-based theater projects in the collective and with everyday experts in the independent scene and at city and state theaters.