Hannah Hurtzig lives in Berlin

Selected installation projects Department for temporary memory, a media installation on the subject of the memory in art. Hamburger Kammerspiele (2000). INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Dialogues on Archiving, public art installation, British Museum, King's Library, London International Festival of Theatre (2001). The Refugee: Services Rendered to Undesirables, Mobile Academy/ ErsatzStadt/ Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxemburg- Platz (2002). BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE No 1 - 12 Berlin, Warsaw, Istanbul, Hamburg, Vienna, Graz, Liverpool, Jaffa (since 2005). Future Perfect Advice Bureau, Berlin (2008)Shadowplay for a Dialogue Duo, Bluecoat, Liverpool (2008) Night Lesson No.1, manifesta 7, Trento (2008), KIOSK: Nation Builders. Dubai/Abu Dhabi, UAE Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia (2009). On the Scene of Initimacy.A Phantasmagory, Berlin (2009)

Short CV Artistic director of Kampnagelfabrik in Hamburg from1985 to 1990. Programming director of the international festival THEATER DER WELT in Dresden in 1996 and in the artistic direction of BONNER BIENNUAL, a European festival of contemporary drama, in 1998. Concept and direction of the International Theater Academy Ruhr, A Meeting Point of Theater, Field Research and Philosophy on a Post-Industrial Site in Bochum 1999. Dramaturge at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz 2000- 2003, Rolling-Road-Show, a mobile container theater, a joint project with the set designer Bert Neumann, Berlin (2000/2001). Curator of Project ErsatzStadt (SubstituteCity), an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxemburg- Platz, 2003- 2005; Director of Mobile Academy since 2004

Selected dramaturgical activities:
DU - DIE STADT (You - The City). An urban play in 15 sequences for one spectator. Fiona Templeton, New York, Munich 199Feel time, Les Levine, New York. Billboard Art, Lenbachhaus , Munich 1999 Going Bye Byes. Stephen Taylor Woodrow, Munich Orangerie, Englischer Garten 199 BLOOMSDAY. Eighteen hour dramatic reading of James Joyce's Ulysses, 16 June, 1988 Hamburg, 16 June, 1991 MunicThe Passions of Natasha, Nokiko, Nicola, Nanette and NormBarbara Bloom/ Shelley Hirsch. Bavarian Staatsschauspiel, Vienna Festival Weeks, Hebbel Theater Berlin 199A Voyeur is a Witness is a Customer. A Trilogy on the Subject of the Audience Jerzy Kalina, Warsaw, David Maayan, Israel, Dirk Groeneveld, Amsterdam, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1991 I LAB U - A Laboratory for the Research of Memory. Akko Theater Center, Israel. David Mayaan. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1994 and the Vienna Festival Weeks 1995 MEMORY ARENA. A Journey into the Archive. Arnold Dreyblatt/ Fred Pommerehn Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg 1995 THE LADY IS NOT TO BE BURNED. Michael Simon, Dramatic Sketches, Dokumenta X, Kassel 1998 Ye Yan. The Night Banquet. Chen Shi Zheng/ Guo Wenjing Festival d'Automne, Paris, Lincoln Center, New York, Berlin 2001

Publications:
Various features and radio plays for the Austrian Rundfunk, journalism, interviews, etc. for THEATER HEUTE and THEATERSCHRIFT Editor: Imitation of Life. Bert Neumann Bühnenbilder, Theater der Zeit Verlag, 2001

Teaching positions:
DASARTS Advanced Research for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, University of Hamburg in the department of Literary Studies, 2000, Endowed Professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum in the department of Theater Studies in 1999