Anna Raisich, M.A.
DFG Project: Die Kunst der Gewerke (The Art of Crafts) (2022-2025)
Anna Raisich first studied Contrabass at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich before transferring to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität to study theater and musicology, as well as gender studies as a minor. Her B.A. thesis deals with a critical reading of the actions of the Center for Political Beauty. She completed her master’s degree with a thesis on theater as a subject of sociological research. In addition to working as a project assistant at the Festivalcampus of the Ruhrtriennale, she was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Theater Studies Munich in WiSe 21/22, where she was jointly responsible for the restructuring of the media center in addition to her first teaching position.
Since September 2022, Anna Raisich has been employed in the DFG research project Die Kunst der Gewerke: eine Praxeografie des Theaterapparats (The Art of Crafts: A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus), where she is completing her doctorate.
Luise Barsch, M.A.
DFG Project: Die Kunst der Gewerke (The Art of Crafts) (2022-2025)
Luise Barsch holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and literature from the University of Erfurt. After initial professional experience in the non-academic sector, she successfully completed a Master’s degree in Theater Research and Cultural Practice at LMU Munich with a qualitative interview study on Technology and Theater. Aesthetics, Work and Gender on the Backstage. During her studies, she worked as a dramaturgy and directing intern at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich’s Residenztheater and Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater with Simon Stone, Antonio Latella, Herbert Föttinger and Laura Olivi, among others. In 2020, the interdisciplinary Munich format Cultural Policy Lab was co-organized and directed by her.
Since September 2022, Luise Barsch has been employed in the DFG research project Die Kunst der Gewerke: eine Praxeografie des Theaterapparats (The Art of Crafts: A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus), where she is completing her doctorate.
Julia Thurn, M.A.
Dramaturge at Theater Fürth
Creation of atmospheres in the theatrical production process
Julia Thurn studied Theater and Media Studies as well as English and American Studies at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. After receiving her master’s degree in Theater Studies, she completed assistantships in press and public relations, directing and dramaturgy in the independent scene as well as at municipal theaters in the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Since 2019, she has been working on her doctorate at the LMU Munich alongside and about her work as a dramaturg at the Stadttheater Fürth.
Iva Brdar, M.A.
DAAD-Research Fellowship (2017-2022)
Dramaturgy of Connections. Digital Intimacy in Theater and Performance Text
Iva Brdar has completed studies of Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and earned a master’s degree in Theatre Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III; she also completed the Women Studies Program at the Center for Women Studies in Belgrade. Furthermore, Iva Brdar is a prize-winning playwright, exploring her research interests in practice. Her play Daumenregeln (Rule of Thumb) won the Brücke Berlin Prize and Sterijino Pozorje Prize, with Geraniums Can Survive Anything, she won the Heartefact Foundation Prize, while Tomorrow Is (For Now) Always Here was shortlisted at Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. Her plays were staged in theatres worldwide (Schauspiel Stuttgart, Kosmos Theater Wien, Cherry Arts Ithaca, a. o.) and are represented in Germany by Rowohlt Verlag.
Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München as a DAAD scholarship holder.
Dr. Miriam Höller
Project funds of the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2019)
Traditional Progress. Electric modernism in provincial court theaters using the example of Stuttgart.
Dr. Miriam Höller studied German language and literature, Romance studies, and cultural anthropology/ethnology in Bonn and Münster. She received her PhD from LMU Munich in 2019 with a dissertation on theater and technology around 1900. In addition, she already supervised the development of digital museum formats. Since 2020, she has been employed as a museum educator with a focus on digital mediation at the German Mining Museum Bochum.