Events

18 May 2018

6:00pm- 7:30pm

Lecture Theatre 4, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

Guest Speakers:Regine Dura (Dramaturge)Hans-Werner Kroesinger (Theatre Director) Prof. Kowng Chi Man (Dept. of History, HKBU)Moderator:Dr. Law Miu Lan (BA in Cultural Management, CUHK)

Regine Dura studied Political Science, Theater and Film studies, German Literature and Art Education (M.A.) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M. and Video at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She works as a director, author and dramaturge for film, theatre and radio. In 2012 her documentary film White Blood (ZDF / Arte) about a racist German-South African adoption scheme premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and was screened at various European Film Festivals. She received scholarships from the German-Canadian Society in Ottawa, the FEDERAL Film Fund, the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, DEFA Foundation, Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul (2013/14) and Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2018) (with Hans-Werner Kroesinger) with whom she co-developped theatre performances since 2000; a.o. TRUTH – COMMISSIONED BY THE HEART OF DARKNESS on European colonial history (Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Tilburg), FRONTEX SECURITY (Festival Politik im Freien Theater) on Europe’s border safeguarding, BATTLEFIELD MEMORY 1914/2014 (BITEF Festival Belgrade, MESS Festival Sarajevo, Kunstfest Weimar, Istanbul and Berlin,) on conflicting historical narratives, EXPORTING WAR on Germany’s arms industry and GRAECOMANIA 200 years on German-Greek historical and political involvement, MUSA DAGH – DAYS OF RESISTANCE on the Armenian genocide, Theatre Hebbel am Ufer and Gorki Theatre, Berlin; the performative walk WELCOME TO THE EUROPEAN PROTECTION ZONE, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, NOWHERE OUT, State Theatre Karlsruhe about Muslim LGBTIQ refugees; THE AIR HERE: SHARPENED METICULOUSLY, Berlin State Opera, #OPINION MAKER, Theatre Erlangen on social media as tool of voter microtargetting and control in the US and China. STATETHEATRE DRIPPINGSTONES on the nazification of the Karlsruhe state theatre was invited to the prestigious THEATERTREFFEN BERLIN in 2016 and has been on tour since then throughout Europe, in China and Israel. Currently she is a fellow at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (with Hans-Werner Kroesinger) where she researches the political history of the Japanese Red Army and the Japanese New Left.

Hans-Werner Kroesinger was born in Bonn in 1962 and lives in Berlin now. He studied drama, theatre and media from 1983 to 1988 with Andrzej Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University Gießen. In 1987, while he was still a student, Kroesinger began working as an assistant director and dramaturg for Robert Wilson, a position he held for two years. He was involved in Wilson’s productions of Hamletmachine in New York, Salome at the Scala in Milan and The Forest in Berlin. In 1989, he was a member of the creative team for Heiner Müller’s production of Hamlet/Hamletmachine at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, in these days East Berlin. He took part in „documenta X“ in Kassel in 1997. Since 1993, he has directed his own productions at prestigious municipal and state-funded theatres, such as the Berliner Ensemble, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel München and the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, as well as on the independent scene, above all at the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), the Sophiensaele, Radialsystem, the Staatsbank and Podewil in Berlin, Forum Freies Theater (FFT) in Düsseldorf, the Festspielhaus Theatre at Dresden-Hellerau, the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zürich and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe ZKM. Since the year 2000 he developes the performances together with the filmmaker and author Regine Dura. Kroesinger has been invited to take his works to high-profile national and international festivals, including Politics in the Independent Theatre (Hamburg, 2003, Dresden 2011, Basel and Freiburg 2014), Cultura Nova (Herleen, 2008) and Impulse (Cologne and Düsseldorf, 2009), Kunstfest Weimar 2014, Mess Festival Sarajevo, Bitef Belgrade, Theatre Festival Tallin and International Theatre Festival Vilnius. In 2007, the director was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize of the Land of Berlin for his Kindertransporte, a production for children and young people at the Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin. His work with Regine Dura Stolpersteine Staatstheaterwas for the Staatstheater Karlsruhe was selected in 2016, to showcase at the most important german-speaking theatre festival, Theatertreffen at Berlin. He also directed “Neues Musiktheater” New Music Theatre works at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and Staatsoper Berlin. His latest production #Meinungsmacher – Opion makers” together with Regine Dura at Theater Erlangen was dealing with the power of social media in the last elections in USA and as a tool for the control of people in China.

Kwong Chi Man earned his BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Assistant Professor of Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. His journal articles can be found in Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Military History and Bulletin of Academia Historica. His publications include A History of Heung Yee Kuk (co-author), Exposed Outpost: the Battle of Hong Kong in the Pacific War (co-author), Old Soldiers Never Die: Hong Kong Chinese Soldiers in the British Forces, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840-1970, Road to Liberation: Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, 1942-1945, War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria: Zhang Zuolin and the Fengtian Clique during the Northern Expedition, and State for the People or State for War? The Intellectual Officers, Military Science and Military Change before the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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All are welcome. Free Admission. Conducted in English.

Organized by The School of Drama, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the MA in Cultural Management and the Centre for Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sponsored by Goethe Institut

Renowned German theatre artists Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Regine Dura, are long-term collaborators in Documentary Theatre making. In this talk, the artists will share the process of their theatre making with archival materials. Detailed examples will be taken from one of their most frequently performed documentary theatre piece Stolpersteine Staatstheater (State Theatre Stolpersteine). Using the personnel records of the state theatre in Karlsruhe, Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Regine Dura reconstruct in detail the workings of anti-Semitic discrimination and the exclusion of leftist and liberal theatre artists after 1933 during the Third Reich. They also examine how little discussion of these events took place after 1945. The artists reminds us, at a particularly important moment in history, that institutions sometimes make uncomfortable compromises in exchange for government funding. Theaters at that time, were far from places of freedom and the avant-garde. This work in fact resonates with the current situation world-wide.