Anke Tornow

Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

January/February 2007 Two months for recreation, reflection and research at Augusto Boal’s Centro de Teatro do Oprimido in Rio de Janeiro (CTO-Rio) and Zé Celso’s Teatro Oficina in São Paulo. Conversations and a short...

Forum theatre in schools

September-December 2006 (with Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, Ruben Kurschat and Anja Petz) Weekly sabisa forum theatre workshops for students from Alexander-Puschkin-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenberg and Thomas-Mann-Oberschule in Berlin-Reinickendorf.

GRIPS workshops at Berlin schools 

September-December 2006  (with Stefanie Schwenkler, Susanne Rieber and Jörg Isermeyer) Follow-up-workshops for GRIPS-Theater with students from Berlin schools who had visited youth plays in the theatre

Peace education conference in Guatemala

November 2006 Conference with course participants from the first three years of „Educación para la paz en América Central, México y Colombia” (Paulo-Freire-Institut Berlin/InWEnt)

Workshops with children and youth in San Salvador

November 2006 (with Claudia Sanchez) Theatre workshops with children and youth on community conflicts (for Intervida) and children’s rights (for CODEFAM – Comité de Familiares de Victimas a Violaciones a los Derechos Humanos ‚Marianela...

Mask theatre in Raßnitz

November 2006 (with Katrin Wolf) Theatre workshop with participants from Raßnitz youth prison for Miteinander e.V.

Pro-calidad: Workshops with InWEnt group

November 2006 (with Ilse Schimpf-Herken and Meike Herminghausen) Training for a new group of university and school teachers from Honduras, Peru and Guatemala for InWEnt

„outside“ – new TheaterDialog project in prison

October 2006 (with Katrin Wolf) TheaterDialog production with prisoners from „Sozialtherapeutische Anstalt der Justizvollzugsanstalt Halle II“ in Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt) about situations after being released from prison (for Miteinander e.V.)

„Klangbaustelle“ in the street

September 2006 (with Paulo Sommer, Peter Hofmann and Ralph Knappmeyer) „Klangbaustelle“ (percussion on plastic and metallic objects, developed by Paulo Sommer) at community street celebrations in Berlin, played by musicians and neighbours

Political Action Theatre at peace tax conference

September 2006 (with Harald Hahn) Eleventh International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns „War Tax – Responsibility – Peace Tax“ at Woltersdorf (Brandenburg) with political action theatre workshop and presentation

„40° fiever“ – Forum theatre in Raßnitz

May/June/July 2006 (with Katrin Wolf, choreographic collaboration: Heike Kuhlmann) TheaterDialog-production at Raßnitz youth prison, focussing on family conflicts and youth violence, with presentations for prisoners and „outside” audience (for Miteinander e.V.)

TheaterDialog training

April 2006 (with Katrin Wolf) Continuation of the training course organised by Bildungswerk Blitz e.V. in Thüringen

Peace Education Course in Guatemala

March 2006 Follow-up course in Guatemala with the group that met in Berlin in September 2005, focussing on conflict analysis, school mediation and forum theatre

InWEnt workshops in Berlin

January/February 2006 (with Ilse Schimpf-Herken and Meike Herminghausen) Workshops for InWEnt programme participants from Peru, Guatemala and Honduras, organized by Paulo Freire Institute Berlin.

TheaterDialog training course

November 2005/January 2006 (with Katrin Wolf) Four-day training for youth workers in the Eastern German county of Thüringen

Introductory workshop „Teatro Social“ in Barcelona

December 2005 Workshop at the „Jornadas de Teatro Social“ at Centre Cívic Cotxeres Borrell (Barcelona), in cooperation with Trans-Formas and Pa’thotom. Programme „Jornades de Teatre Social“

Forum theatre workshop in Dresden

November 2005 (with Harald Hahn) Workshop for antiracist activists in Dresden who use forum theatre in their awareness work (focussing on facilitation techniques of the Joker)

Evaluierung „In die Hände gespuckt“

November 2005 (with Meike Herminghausen and Petra Donner) Evaluation by sabisa – performing change of the GRIPS -production „In die Hände gespuckt“ (with presentations in Berlin schools about the topic of working children and...

Forum theatre in Raßnitz: „What are you dreaming of“?

July/October/November 2005 (with Katrin Wolf) Forum theatre project and performance in the youth prison of Raßnitz by Netzwerk TheaterDialog (on behalf of Miteinander e.V.) with participants from „inside“ and „outside“ (with the choreographic support...

Forum theatre in Berlin schools

October 2005 (with Mirjam Dirks) Five-day forum theatre workshops in Berlin schools (a project by sabisa – performing change, GRIPS Theater and TheaterPädagogische Aktionen)

sabisa-Project „Communication in Conflicts“

August/September 2005 „KiK 05“ with Sanjoy Ganguly (India), Jessica Kaahwa (Uganda), Esaias Tseggi (Eritrea), Galina Bokova (Usbekistan), Flávio Sanctum (Brazil) and (during a part of the programme) Adriana Diosa and Oscar Uribe from Colombia,...

Theatre workshops about „Bella, Boss und Bulli“

September 2005 Theatre workshops in schools in Berlin about violence and mobbing among children, preparing the presentation of the piece „Bella, Boss and Bulli“ (GRIPS theatre)

„Teatro para los derechos humanos“ in Chile

July/August 2005 Workshops and trainings on behalf of Paulo Freire Institut about theatre and human rights for Chilean teachers, students and parents Workshop „Teatro para los derechos humanos“ for students, teachers and parents at...

Invisible Theatre in Dresden

June 2005 (with Harald Hahn) Invisible Theatre workshop on „Precarious work in Dresden“ for Kunsthaus Dresden and Societaetstheater

Black Gold in Ecuador

June 2005 (with Harald Hahn) Political action theatre workshop and performance for BUND-Jugend Nordrhein-Westfalen about the „dirty business“ of oil pipeline construction in Ecuador

Working in Mexico, Central America and Colombia

February/March 2005 Continuation of the “Creando una cultura de paz”-course in Bogotá and Medellín/Colombia (with Virginia Alvear, Ilse Schimpf-Herken, Inge Remmert), organised by Paulo-Freire-Institute on behalf of InWEnt Workshop for students from a school...

Human rights awareness training in Guinea-Bissau

January 2005 (with Jasmina Barckhausen) Training for UNDEMOV – União de Deficientes Motores e Vítimas de Guerra/ Projecto de Paz and Weltfriedensdienst e.V. with participants from army and police in Guinea-Bissau.

Forum theatre in Hütten

January 2005 Forum theatre workshop in Hütten/Thüringen with the Weimar group

Forum theatre in Weimar schools

December 2004 Forum theatre workshop and performances in two schools by the Weimar-based forum theatre group

Forum theatre in Berlin

December 2004 (with Anja Petz) Forum theatre workshop for multipliers, organised by sabisa – performing change

SICHTEN VI conference

November 2004 Two short Political Action Theatre workshops and a TheaterDialog presentation at the theatre conference SICHTEN VI in Berlin.

TheaterDialog training programme

June-November 2004 (with Katharina Lammers and Katrin Wolf) Nine-day-training for multipliers from school, social work and peace education from Eastern and Western Germany, conducted by Netzwerks TheaterDialog on behalf of Miteinander e.V.

Aktionstheatergruppe on tour

October 2004 Forum theatre tour of the Aktionstheatergruppe Halle with performances in Germany and Austria

TheaterDialog at Silberhöhe

September 2004 (with Katrin Wolf and Peter Igelmund) Workshop for children and youth in as marginalised district of Halle (conducted by Netzwerk TheaterDialog)

Forum theatre at the WFD workcamp

August 2004 (with Anja Petz) sabisa forum theatre workshop and performance with young writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Israel, Palestine and Germany, organised by the projectpeace communication of the Berlin-based NGO Weltfriedensdienst

Forum theatre at the “Thüringen-Tour”

June 2004 Preparatory workshop with the Weimar forum theatre group for performances at an awareness tour of the „Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung“ in the East German county of Thüringen

„ Protagonist in your own life“ in Raßnitz youth prison

May/June 2004 (with Katrin Wolf, Ken Kupzok and Peter Igelmund) Forum theatre workshops/performances and percussion course in the youth prison of Raßnitz/Sachsen-Anhalt, conducted by Netzwerk TheaterDialog on behalf of Miteinander e.V.

TheaterDialog: School projects in Sachsen-Anhalt

May/June 2004 (with Katrin Wolf, Dagny Daheim, Andrea Janssen, Frank Hofmann) One-day school workshops conducted by Netzwerk TheaterDialog in the Eastern German county of Sachsen-Anhalt.

Invisible Theatre in Schwedt/Oder

May 2004 Invisible theatre workshop and performance at the first theatre festival for youth from Poland and from the Eastern German county of Brandenburg at Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt.

TheaterDialog in Gelsenkirchen

April 2004 (with Katharina Lammers and Katrin Wolf) Netzwerk TheaterDialog workshop with social workers in the Western German town of Gelsekirchen as part of a series of events against “xenophobia and racism”

PartyZipate! – Forum theatre in Weimar

April 2004 Forum theatre workshop and street performance about the presence of Neo-Nazis in the public space of Weimar (Eastern Germany) Weimar: the poster

Forum theatre in Bosnia-Herzegowina

December 2003 (with Roberto Mazzini) Forum theatre workshop and performance in Jajce (Central Bosnia) with young people from Bosnia-Herzegowina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, England and Italy (organised by Omladinski Centar Jajce and Friedenskreis Halle)

Children’s drawings

November/December 2003 (with Meike Herminghausen, Marek Spitczok von Brisinski and Paula Kramer) sabisa theatre workshops accompanying the exhibition “War isn’t Child’s Play – children’s drawings in wars” in the House of Democracy and Human...

DOMINO project

April 2002 – january 2004 (with Katharina Lammers, Katrin Wolf and others) Employment as Kultur-/Theaterpädagoge in the project DOMINO – Zivilcourage im Rampenlicht in Halle/Saale and Merseburg (Saxony-Anhalt). Conceptualization and facilitation of a qualification...

“Nein zum Krieg!” (Say no to war!)

September 2003 (with Harald Hahn) Political action theatre workshop and street performance about the arms production of Daimler-Benz and the militarisation of German foreign policy, organised by Oekumenischer Dienst/Schalomdiakonat in Kassel

Forum theatre in Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegowina

July 2003 (with Roberto Mazzini and Michael Wrentschur) Forum theatre workshop and street performance with young participants from Bosnia-Herzegowina, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Italiy, Spain, England, Senegal and Germany, organised by Schüler helfen...

Clean Clothes Campaign

May 2003 (with Harald Hahn) Political action theatre workshop and street performance at the Ecumenical Church Day in Berlin to support the Clean Clothes Campaign (on behalf of INKOTA-netzwerk)

Theatricalising politics

June 2002 (with Harald Hahn) Workshop and performance as a creative form of protest against cuts in the social sector and in NGO funding in Berlin (organised by the NGO network Berliner Entwicklungspolitische Ratschlag)