Residency artists and researchers Theatre Friederike Felbeck Director/Writer Diploma, Doctoral candidate Government Poetry, Part II: Europe. Completion of the draft version of a theatrical performance that portrays the negotiations and struggles of contemporary artists in the performing arts in Europe Director, writer and producer. After her directoral studies at the Hamburg Theatre Academy with Jürgen Flimm, she worked as personal assistant to Armand Gatti und Roberto Ciulli. Her debut after Pasolini´s Pig´s Stall was followed by numerous productions of both classical and contemporary authors. She has written plays about fine artists Eva Hesse and Alexej von Jawlensky and developed performances concerned with urban development and architecture. Her travels have frequently led her to the Middle East, initiating the first Syrian-German co-production after Sadallah Wannus “Tuqûs al-ishârât wa altahawwulât”. Her most recent productions include Everyman by Hofmannsthal, staged with actors from Germany and Senegal and Antigone, performed on the grounds of a former National Socialist training institution, that after WWII transformed from military training area to memorial site. Still on-going is “Government Poetry”, an artistic view on UNESCO´s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The stay at the Saari Residence will be dedicated to the writing down of the play. As a theatre critic, she writes regularly for Theater der Zeit (Berlin), Didaskalia (Wroclaw) and nachkritik.de. She is co-authoring a long-term study on “Structural Changes in European Theatre”, conducted by the Balzan-Prize Foundation and coordinated by the International Theatre Institute. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hamburg, researching on academic acting training in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.