Puppeteer and artistic director of "KOBALT Figurentheater Lübeck" and "KOLK17" Stephan Schlafke, born in 1962 in Berlin, co-founded and directed the “berliner marionettenbühne” ensemble (1986 – 2008) designing not only the puppets but also the stage sets. He attended...

Mandy Okereke is a Berlin based cultural manager and art historian with a B.A in Area Studies and M.A in Art History in a Global Context, both with a focus on Africa. Her research practice is mainly focussed on contemporary African cinema and its international...

Markus Posse is a Berlin-based dramaturg, performer and Artistic Researcher. After studying scenic arts in Hildesheim, acting in Málaga and performance studies in Hamburg, he was involved in various theater- and performance projects at Kampnagel, Lichthof Theater...

Caroline Chia completed her doctorate at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne in 2016. Feeling a strong urgency to sustain her hometown heritage of traditional Chinese puppetry in Singapore, Caroline has published several papers on the topic, and organized...

René Reith works as a choreographer, performer and dance scientist in North Germany. He is holding a masterdegree in Staging of the Arts and Media from the University of Hildesheim. As a co-fonder of the artist group systemrhizoma he is working on performances in the...

Robin Ruizendaal was the director of the Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum in Taipei from 2000 to 2020, with a collection of over 10.000 Asian theatre puppets and related artifacts. He is currently working on the Asian theatre puppet research project of the Paul Lin...