I would actually like to welcome you with the real elements of fire, water, wind and earth, or with other special effects such as foam, electricity or compressed air - because these effects are the spiced delights of the theatre, which I love. But, of course, what remains is the foundation of every staging of the show, with me holding on to it: a gestural-mimic performance more interesting than text-based theatre. Theatre must be like football - which was already the creed of the first independent theatre group Hofmann Comic Teater from Berlin, where in 1980 I made my first theatrical attempts. And this is the driving force behind the search for an exciting theatre, a work of art made of spectacles, images, music, lights and effects.

Actor and director Artistic Director of Teatro Titanick, Münster-Leipzig 1973-1978 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster and Düsseldorf 1984-1985 trained as an actor at the École Philippe Gaulier, Paris - Lecoq School 1986-1989 Lecturer in Visual Theatre / Image Theatre at the Scuola Internazionale di Teatro in Rome, Italy 1986-1989 actor and performer with the theatre group "Circo a Vapore", Rome, Italy, touring through Central Europe 1987-1989 Actor with the Dutch theatre group "Dogtroep", Amsterdam, Netherlands, on tour in Europe 1990 founder of Teatro Titanick, Münster - Leipzig, artistic director and actor 1990 Master class with Jacques Lecoq (Glasgow, UK), "the study of movement in space", performances and collaboration with Simon McBurney, Théâtre de Complicité 1990 - 2013 Artistic Director of 14 open-air theatre productions for Titanick, around 750 open-air productions across 4 continents and 28 countries 1998/1999 Director of the city staging "PAX" - 350 years of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster 1998 Director of "Message-in-a-bottle" as part of the art pilgrimage at EXPO 98 in Lisbon, Portugal 31.12.1999 Director of "Götterfunken" - a Millennium production about Prometheus and the four elements at Augustusplatz, Leipzig 2000/2001 Director of "Firebirds" - a production about the dream of flight 2003 artistic director of "Heroes + dog + Fraun" - a city staging for the Kleist Forum in Frankfurt / Oder 2004 director of "Paradise + Earth" - a site-specific staging at the Cistercian monastery of Gravenhorst 2004 Artistic Director of "Wrecks" - a production about the flood 2006 Artistic Director of "Odyssey" - a production about the odyssey of a theatre director 2007 Director of the city staging ANL "Square Root", 400 years of Mannheim, involving 150 artists 2008 Director of the city staging "Aufruhr" for the 200th anniversary celebration of the city of Mülheim 2008 director of the open-air staging "Underground", a production tailored for EKZ Zurich with 42 performances in the Canton of Zurich 2009 Advisor for the city staging "O sonho d'Afonso" about the history of the city of Guimarães, Portugal, European Capital of Culture - 30,000 spectators 2010 Artistic Director of "Blast Furnace Symphony" - a production about steel, fire and humanity 2011 Director of the production "Sleepwalker" - a park staging inspired by paintings by Hieronymus Bosch 2011 Artistic Director of the International Festival CORRIDOR PIECES 011 - theatre, dance, film, performance in the urban space of Münster 2011/12 Director of "Imagine Europe", development concept of the production about 200 years of the battle - 100 years of the monument - a European story of Leipzig, Poznań and Marseille, premiere 19/10/2013 in Leipzig

teaching and training activities 1998 - 2000 guest lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, YUSTAT - Lecture on "Streets and places as performance areas" in Belgrade, Serbia 1999 Visiting Lecturer on Titanick theatre and Open Air Theatre in Germany, IETM Helsinki, Finland 2000 guest lecturer on Open Air Theatre at the University of Caracas, Venezuela 2003 Guest lecturer at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico 2004 Guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA 2005-07 lecturer at the "Henry van de Velde" Higher School of Architecture Sciences in Antwerp, Belgium, seminars on: "Streets and places as performance areas", "Fast Forward" - discovering time through rhythm and movement, "Sky and Earth" - performance and light 2005 Seminar on Open Air Theatre in Europe, University of Merseburg, Germany 2006- 2008 1st President of the Federation "Theatre in Public Spaces Germany" 2007 Mentor / co-director of the Orange Circus theatre project in Toronto, Canada Guest lecturer at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, PQ 07 conference 2007 - 2009 collaboration with Dario Fo on the development of an open-air staging of the story "QU - communist utopia" 2009 Visiting Lecturer and workshop at Stanford University, USA, "The Journey of Food" 2011 guest lecturer on site-specific work at the Prague Quadrennial, "Sky and Earth" in the Franciscan Garden of Prague 2012 Workshop on the acting style of Teatro Titanick, reading and discussion of theatre in public spaces in Germany using the example of Teatro Titanick