Not just a mirror. Looking for the political theatre today (ePub)

Florian Malzacher is an independent performing arts curator, dramaturge and writer. He was artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Mulheim/Ruhr (2013-2017), co-curator of the multidisciplinary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria (2006-2012) and curatorial advisor of the Ruhrtriennale (2018-20).

Among his current projects is discoursive program "The Art of Assembly" (since 2021) and "Training for the Future" (together with Jonas Staal, since 2018). For summer semester 2021 is guest professor at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies, University Giessen. He is co-editor of the ongoing book-series "Postdramatisches Theater in Portraits" at Alexander Verlag.

After graduating at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen he worked till 2005 mainly as a freelance theatre journalist for daily newspapers and has continued since then to contribute regularly to international magazines like Theater Heute (DE), Tanz (DE), Frakcija (HR), Didaskalia (PL) and Camera Austria (AT) etc.

Florian Malzacher has worked as a freelance dramaturge at theatres like Burgtheater Vienna or Mousonturm Frankfurt with artists like Rimini Protokoll (DE), Lola Arias (ARG), Mariano Pensotti (ARG), Tania Bruguera (CUB) and regularly with Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA). He was a founding member of the independent curators' collective Unfriendly Takeover (2001 - 2008) in Frankfurt/Main.

Florian Malzacher (co-)curated next to his festivals e.g. the 4th and 5th International Summer Academy (Mousonturm Frankfurt 2002 and 2004), the "Dictionary of War" (2006/07), the series "Performing Lectures" (Frankfurt, 2004-06), the 170 hours non-stop marathon camp "Truth is concrete" on artistic strategies in politics (Graz, 2012), the congress "Artist Organisations International" (together with Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, HAU Berlin, 2015), and "Sense of Possibility" on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the revolution (St.