Prof. Dr.
Sandra Umathum

Sandra Umathum is a theater and performance scholar, dramaturg and since 2020 professor for (applied) theory dance, choreography, performance at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT). From 2010 to 2012 she was visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and from 2013 to 2018 professor for theater studies and dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. She received her PhD with "Art as Performance Experience," a study on intersubjective experiences in exhibition art (transcript 2011) and is co-editor of "Disabled Theater" (diaphanes 2015) or "Postdramaturgies" (Neofelis 2020), among others. Her research interests include theory and practice of contemporary theater and performance, relations of performing and visual arts since the 1950s, performance & disability, performance and/as documentation, shooting (with a gun and with a camera), and new forms and practices of dramaturgy. In 2018, as part of Impulse Theater Festival, she curated "Academy of the Precarious #2: Unsafe Encounters" (studiobühne Cologne). She was also co-curator of "Dirty Debut," a series of events supporting young performance artists* (Sophiensaele Berlin, 2018/19; Ballhaus Ost, 2020).