From the unfinished, or tomorrow is another day

Participants

• Biographies

  Martin Clausen moved from Hesse to Berlin in 1993 and began working at the Reissverschluss theatre in East Berlin. He studied cultural and theatre studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as an Alexander Technique teacher. Through his work with Nico and the Navigators at the Bauhaus Dessau, Clausen came to the sophiensæle in Berlin, where he appeared in around 30 productions until 2021. With Angela Schubot, he worked as "TWO FISH" from 2004 onwards at HAU (Hebbel am Ufer), among other venues. There he performed in various collectives and independent groups such as Gob Squad and SheShePop and realised several play developments as "Martin Clausen und Kollegen". At the Theater an der Parkaue, he created the play "Bettina bummelt," which has been running since 2010. Clausen has a long-standing collaboration with set designer Ivan Bazak, directors Lajos Talamonti, Santiago Blaum and Gerd Hartmann, artist Kerstin Cmelka, choreographer Rafał Dziemidok and the inclusive theatre Thikwa.

  Katharina Dodel opens up spaces for play and exploration. Through curiosity, movement and acrobatics, she invites people to push boundaries, discover new forms of expression and experience their bodies as a playground. Katharina worked for many years as an editor at the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and at the magazine drehscheibe in Berlin, a publication of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. There, as deputy editor-in-chief, she was responsible for the monthly print magazine, video contributions and seminars. She now works as a movement trainer and gives dance acrobatics and games courses as part of her own project, wampediboo. Her courses are aimed at people from the dance and theatre sectors, as well as amateurs who are curious to explore and expand their own movement repertoire with joy and ease.

  Tobias Dutschke studied classical percussion at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He works as a musician and performer in theatre and musical theatre and has created numerous pieces with the musical theatre trio schindelkilliusdutschke. Tobias Dutschke has composed various stage music pieces, including for the Schauspiel Hannover, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, and he has produced sound compositions for Deutschlandradio Kultur. Since 2017, he has been co-director of the creative orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

  Martin Lutz studied sound art at the Berlin University of the Arts and musicology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He works as a composer and sound artist in Berlin. Lutz has composed and arranged music for a wide variety of projects, including plays, performances, dance theatre, films, documentaries and television series. As a sound artist, he has created sound installations in Europe and China. Artist residency programmes at the Goethe-Institut and collaborations with international artists and performance groups have taken him to numerous European cities as well as to India, South Korea and Mozambique. His work focuses on the exploration of sound and its meaning and nature in and for architecturally and emotionally experiential space. Field recordings, experimental sound generation and traditional instruments form the basis of his compositions, which extract sounds and soundscapes from their natural environment and place them in a new contextual and spatial context.

  Christine Mellich studied musicology, philosophy and archaeology in Saarbrücken and Berlin, was assistant director to Peter Konwitschny and Achim Freyer, and staged Boris Blacher's radio opera Die Flut (The Flood) at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer. She worked for the radio drama department and music editorial team at MDR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RBB and HR. She also wrote programme notes for various concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonic, and gave concert introductions. Since 2013, she has been working at the Konzerthaus Berlin in the "Junges Konzerthaus" department as a music educator and dramaturge.

  Cellist Susanne Paul has developed her own colourful playing style that poetically combines groove, improvisation and innovative playing techniques. In her pieces, she forms her own atmospheric musical language from elements of jazz, indie rock, polyrhythm, flamenco, punk and contemporary music, completely reinventing the cello as a fully-fledged chord, bass, melody and rhythm instrument. Growing up in Southern California and Northern Germany in a German-Mexican family, musical multilingualism was practically in her blood. She performs, composes and arranges in numerous bands and theatres, and teaches jazz cello at the Jazz Institute Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts.

  Viktor Wolf studied jazz saxophone at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and continued his studies at the Jazz Institute Berlin. He is a member of numerous bands and theatre productions, with which he performs worldwide and can be heard on CD, radio and television recordings. As a composer, he writes music for his own ensemble, PanoramaPeng, with whom he released the album Mountain Lion Dance in 2017. He presented this album at venues including Berlin's Gedächtniskirche and Konzerthaus Berlin. As a sought-after sideman, Viktor Wolf works with renowned jazz artists such as Aly Keita, Hayden Chisholm, Claudio Puntin, the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and the Agios Lavrentios Brass Band. Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe as well as to the United States, Mexico, India, Morocco, Mali, Malaysia, Indonesia, Senegal and Yemen. Viktor Wolf masters a wide range of woodwind instruments, including soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, flute and piccolo. He has played with the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra and Malte Schiller's Red Balloon, among others.