During their studies at the HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin Laura, Jakob, Alina and their classmates noticed an underrepresentation of female theatre authors in their curriculums. Because of that they and their classmates initiated two seminars in which the focus laid on female theatre makers and authors in particular.
In the first part of the workshop Laura, Jakob and Alina are going to introduce the two seminars they had and the initiative that was founded after the seminars ended to continue the work of establishing a more diverse curriculum at their school. They also want to discuss with the participants of the workshop what initiatives they know from their schools. The goal is to exchange ways of how to create more diverse contents of teaching.

In the second part of the workshop Laura, Jakob and Alina will introduce you to one of Germany’s most important female theatre writers, Marieluise Fleißer. She was a companion, colleague and critic of Brecht, who also directed some of her plays. After that there will be a live reading of a scene out of the play “Pioneers in Ingolstadt”.

The three have the idea of establishing a format in which participants from each country introduce a female theatre author from their country so the knowledge about european female theatre authors is spread. Subsequent to the reading everybody can discuss how that would be possible.