Anke Tornow

JUSTICE! PEACE!

KURINGA production with participants of the General Assembly of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Berlin/Leipzig, June/July 2017

Workshop for teachers’ union

December 2016 Forum theatre workshop for the teachers’ union GEW in Baden-Württemberg, organised by the working group of lesbian teachers

Invisible Theatre workshop

October 2016 Workshop “Invisible Theatre” for the youth environmental network JANUN in Lüneburg, with invisible actions in public space.

Jana Sanskriti and KURINGA

Workshop and presentation „Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound and Rhythm” in Badu/India, with Bárbara Santos, June 2016

KURINGA qualification course

April/May 2016 (with Bárbara Santos and Christoph Leucht) New course 1 of the KURINGA qualification programme in Theatre of the Oppressed followed by a public forum theatre presentation

Hotel Europa in Barcelona

Presentation of the European Forum Theatre production “Hotel Europa” in Barcelona, TOgether International Theatre Company, March 2016

Matagalpa/Nicaragua

“Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm” at the IV Latin American Theatre of the Oppressed Meeting in Matagalpa/Nicaragua, with Bárbara Santos, January 2016

Latin American Theatre of the Oppressed Meeting

January 2016 (with Bárbara Santos) Workshop and presentation “Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound and Rhythm” at the IV Latin American Meeting of Theatre of the Oppressed in Matagalpa/Nicaragua (IV Encuentro Latinoamericano del Teatro...

La Paz/Bolivia

“Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm” at the III Latin American Theatre of the Oppressed Meeting in La Paz/Bolivia, with Bárbara Santos, February 2014

Summer in KURINGA

about the KURINGA Theatre of the Oppressed Qualification Programme, August 2013

Bogotá/Colombia

“Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm” at 1er Festival Nacional de Teatro del Oprimido en Colombia in Bogotá, with Bárbara Santos, July 2013

Rio de Janeiro/Brazil

„Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm“ at Centro de Teatro do Oprimido – CTO in Rio de Janeiro, with Bárbara Santos, March 2013

Quetzaltenango/Guatemala

“Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm” at the II Latin American Theatre of the Oppressed Meeting in Quetzaltenango/Guatemala, with Bárbara Santos, January 2012

Pula/Croatia

„Aesthetics of the Oppressed – Sound/Rhythm” at the Pula Forum Festival, with Bárbara Santos, June 2011

Muktadhara festival in Kolkata

December 2010 25 years of Jana Sanskriti: workshop and street actions with plastic barrels and giant puppets at Muktadhara IV (with Aktionstheatergruppe Halle). Here you find Uri Noy Meir’s video documentation of the March...

Kolkata/India

Giant puppet and barrel percussion workshop and performance during Jana Sanskriti’s Muktadhara Festival in Kolkata/India, November 2010

Forum theatre group in Berlin-Wedding

October/November 2010 (with Bárbara Santos and Christoph Leucht) Musical direction of a community forum theatre production with young people from Berlin-Wedding

Kreativ im Konflikt III

November 2010 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Third module of the training course on conflict transformation and theatre, offered by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow

Rights for People, Rules for Business

October/November 2010 (with Harald Hahn) Workshop and theatre action for the campaign “Rights for People, Rules for Business”. Here a video about the action day in Berlin.

Reflection workshop

October 2010 Two-day workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

Conference and workshop in Barcelona

October 2010 (with Michael Thonhauser) Presentation on Legislative Theatre during the „XII Jornadas Internacionales de Participación“ at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), then a workshop with the theatre group Teatraviesas about Legislative Theatre and...

Invisible Theatre

October 2010 (with Harald Hahn) Workshop at Bewegungsakademie: Invisible theatre in theory and practice, including presentations in public space in Bremen

frei sein – an investigation

September/October 2010 (with Kathrin Lau) What does it mean to be free? When are we free – and when not? How does it feel to be free, how does it sound, how does it...

Kreativ im Konflikt II

September 2010 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Second module of the training course on conflict transformation and theatre, offered by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow).

Forum theatre II in Prignitz

September 2010 Second forum theatre workshop in the rural Prignitz area, with new scenes and a focus on jokering

TheaterDialog training course IV

August 2010 (with Katrin Wolf) After the end of the TheaterDialog training course in 2009 the multipliers started the initiative for a new meeting to reflect on their experiences of application, discuss questions and...

Training courses and festival participation in Colombia

July 2010 Forum theatre training courses with multipliers in Bogotá and Medellín, for Paulo Freire Institut, on behalf of InWEnt, in cooperation with Corporación Otra Escuela (Bogotá) and Red Juvenil (Medellín). Participation in the...

Workshop for BER

July 2010 (with Harald Hahn) Introductory workshop about creative street activism and Political Action Theatre for BER , the network of Berlin-based groups, initiatives and NGOs working on issues of development cooperation and global...

School workshops for GRIPS-Theater

May-June 2010 (with Claudia Sommer and Philip Meade) Theatre workshops in Berlin schools about child labour and children’s rights, following the GRIPS play „In die Hände gespuckt“, a Pro-NATs project in cooperation with GRIPS-Werke...

Kreativ im Konflikt I

May 2010 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) First module of the new training course on conflict transformation and theatre, offered by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow

Workshop for Expedition Metropolis

May 2010 Workshop about approaches of political theatre in Latin America with a Polish-German Expedition Metropolis group

Event „Forum theatre in Latin America“

May 2010 (with Mirella Galbiatti) Evening organised by Projekthaus Potsdam with live forum theatre and a presentation about forum theatre experiences in Latin America and other parts of the world.

Reflection workshop

May 2010 Two-day workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

Trinational theatre workshop

April 2010 (with Mirella Galbiatti) Forum theatre workshop with participants from Spain, France and Germany at Projekthaus Babelsberg (Potsdam)

Forum theatre in Prignitz

March 2010 Workshop and presentation at Siebengiebelhof in the rural Prignitz area

In Argentina

December 2009 / January 2010 Participation at the „Primer congreso internacional: Cultura para la transformación social“ (first international congress: Culture for social change) in Mar del Plata and at the „Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano de...

Workshop at Merseburg University

November 2009 (with Katrin Wolf) TheaterDialog workshop with students from Merseburg University of Applied Sciences (a Miteinander project

Workshop at World Forum Theatre Festival

October 2009 (with Katrin Wolf) „Life in Austria“ – a four-day workshop including a forum theatre presentation with group of migrated and non-migrated inhabitants of Innsbruck, organised by Armin Staffler/spectACT as part of the...

TheaterDialog training course III

October 2009 (with Katrin Wolf) Third and last part of the TheaterDialog training course for multipliers, organised by Miteinander e.V.

Kreativ im Konflikt IV

Oktober 2009 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Fourth and last module of the training course on conflict transformation and theatre, offered by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle und Kurve Wustrow.

School workshops for GRIPS-Theater

September/October 2009 (with Philip Meade) Theatre workshops in Berlin schools about child labour and children’s rights, following the GRIPS play „In die Hände gespuckt“, in cooperation with sabisa and Pro-NATs.

TheaterDialog training course II

September 2009 (with Katrin Wolf) Second part of a three-part TheaterDialog training course for multipliers, organised by Miteinander e.V.

Invisible theatre

September 2009 (with Harald Hahn) Workshop at Bewegungsakademie: Invisible theatre in theory and practice, including presentations in public space in Bremen

Reflection workshop

September 2009 Two-day workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

TheaterDialog training course I

August 2009 (with Katrin Wolf) First part of a three-part TheaterDialog training course for multipliers, organised by Miteinander e.V.

Kreativ im Konflikt III

August 2009 (with Anja Petz and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Third module of the training course on conflict transformation and theatre, offered by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow

Pro-Calidad – forum theatre training courses

August 2009 Two four-day workshops at Free University Berlin with school and university teachers from Peru, Guatemala and Honduras, by Paulo Freire Institut on behalf of InWEnt

Political Action Theatre for multipliers

May/June 2009: (with Harald Hahn) Training course for multipliers from political groups and social movements at Bewegungsakademie, with a street performance in Bremen about surveillance in public space

Reflection workshop

April 2009 Two-day-workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

Kreativ im Konflikt II

April 2009 (with Anja Petz and Harald Weishaupt) Second module of the training course on conflict transformation and theatre, organised by sabisa, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow.

Peace education course in Central America

March 2009 (with Virginia Alvear, Jasmina Barckhausen, Annika Taube) Follow-up course in Guatemala and El Salvador, including a forum theatre workshop on masculinidades/masculinities with a methodological focus on jokering/facilitation in forum theatre

Lola and Lili: Forum theatre in Argentinian prisons

January/February 2009 (with Mirella Galbiatti) Two forum theatre projects with female prisoners in Buenos Aires, a cooperation of TheaterDialog and Actuarnos Otros, on invitation of Goethe Institut Buenos Aires

Barrel workshop at Muktadhara

November/December 2008 (with Anke Zimpel and Peter Igelmund) Six-day percussion workshop and various presentations at the Jana Sanskriti festival Muktadhara in Kolkata/India Noisy dialogues – some remarks on tablas and plastic barrels

Action days in Senftenberg

November 2008 Forum and image theatre workshops with young people about racism and right extremism in the town of Senftenberg/Brandenburg

Forum theatre with prisoners and students

October/November 2008 (with Katrin Wolf) TheaterDialog/Miteinander-project with young day-release-prisoners from Raßnitz and with students from the University of Applied Sciences in Merseburg

Reflection workshop

September 2008 Two-day-workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

„lotte, anton, oliverio“

August 2008 Film presentation and discussion about prison theatre in Buenos Aires/Argentine and Sachsen-Anhalt/Germany, with Mirella Galbiatti from Actuarnos Otros (organised by sabisa)

Pro-calidad: forum theatre 

July 2008 Forum theatre training course with group from Peru, Guatemala and Honduras, by Paulo Freire Insitut Berlin on behalf of InWEnt

Brazil and Argentine

May/June 2008 Visiting the group Actuarnos Otros in Buenos Aires/Argentine and the Centre of the Theatre of the Oppressed (CTO-Rio) in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (participation in an internal CTO laboratory with Augusto Boal).

Newspaper theatre workshop

May 2008 Introductory workshop „newspaper theatre“ with participants of the ATTAC-Aktionsakademie 2008 in Heidelberg.

Reflection workshop

May 2008 Two-day-workshop with medical employees from hospices for the terminally ill

Forum theatre with Caucasian peace activists

March 2008 (with Marina Grasse and Dana Jirous) Omnibus / OWEN workshop in Istanbul on forum theatre in gender training and peace education with with peace und human rights activists from the Caucasus region

Newspaper theatre performance in Medellín

March 2008 „No son las flores, son los derechos“ (it’s not about flowers, it’s about rights) – public action with course participants on 8 March (International Day of Women’s Rights) in the centre of...

Peace education course in Colombia

March 2008 (with Virginia Alvear, Jasmina Barckhausen and Aki Krishnamurthy) Follow-up course in Bogotá and Medellín with the group that met in Berlin in September/October 2007, implemented by Paulo Freire Institut Berlin on behalf...

Forum theatre at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in Colombia

March 2008 (with Aki Krishnamurthy, Luís Benitez and Pedro Patiño) Forum theatre workshop and presentation with students, teachers and workers of Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in Bogotá. More information here (in spanish)

Political action theatre for EED

February 2008 (with Harald Hahn) Introductory workshop in political action theatre for Evangelischen Entwicklungsdienst

Forum theatre at Omnibus

February 2008 (with Marina Grasse and Dana Jirous) Omnibus / OWEN workshop on forum theatre in gender training and peace education in Berlin

Kreativ im Konflikt IV

January 2008 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Fourth and last phase of training course on conflict transformation and theatre

Mask theatre in Raßnitz

January 2008 (with Katrin Wolf) Last phase of the project started in 2007 in Jugendanstalt Raßnitz

anton. a forum theatre experiment

November/December 2007 (with Katrin Wolf) Forum theatre project with young male prisoners from Jugendanstalt Raßnitz

Kreativ im Konflikt III

November 2007 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Third phase of training course on conflict transformation and theatre

Pro-calidad: Workshop with InWEnt-group  

November 2007 (with Ilse Schimpf-Herken) Workshop with group from Peru, Guatemala and Honduras, by Paulo Freire Institut Berlin on behalf of InWEnt

Human dignity

August-October 2007 (with Fei Kaldrack) Project with volunteers and professionals from Berlin hospices

Congress on social therapy

September 2007 (with Katrin Wolf) Project presentation and workshop about TheaterDialog work in prison at 11th congress on social therapy

Kreativ im Konflikt II   

August 2007 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Second phase of training course on conflict transformation and theatre

Forum theatre project at ASFH

July 2007 Project initiated by students from Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule für Sozialpädagogik und Sozialarbeit

Just show – or emancipation on stage?

July 2007 Event organised by Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken (supported by with sabisa), with Aktionstheatergruppe Halle and Bárbara Santos from CTO-Rio

Kreativ im Konflikt I

June 2007 (with Anja Petz, Harald Weishaupt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski) Training course on conflict transformation and theatre, by sabisa – performing change, Friedenskreis Halle and Kurve Wustrow

Workshop at Omnibus 1325

June 2007 (with Marina Grasse and Andrea Zemskow-Züge) Workshop about gender in peace work and conflict transformation: Omnibus 1325, a project by OWEN

Workshop with theatre group from Bremen

June 2007 Forum theatre workshop with theatre group from Bremen which started working with forum theatre after training courses at Bewegungsakademie

go.stop.act – creative action workshop for G8 protest

May/June 2007 (with Marc Amann and Harald Hahn) 5-day workshop at Bewegungsakademie focussing on radical puppetry and political action theatre, preparing creative protest against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm

Lecture on „Legislative Theatre in Brazil“ 

April 2007 Lecture during six-day-workshop with Sanjoy Ganguly from Jana Sanskriti organised by Aktionstheatergruppe Halle in cooperation with sabisa and Friedenkreis Halle.