About Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft

A for Associating, Articulate & Affective
P for Poking, Poignant & Peculiar
i for impassioned, incorruptible & interviewing
G for Gathering, Guests & Gone

A for Antje
P for Pfundtner
i for in
G for Gesellschaft

„Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft“ (APiG) is headquartered in Hamburg, produces stage pieces and initiates collaborative spaces.
To found her Gesellschaft, her community, Antje Pfundtner received the concept funding of the Hamburg administration for culture and media as the first choreographer in 2012/2013.

APiG is made up of a core team: Anne Kersting (dramaturge and curator)/ Michael Lentner (lighting design and technical director)/ Vivienne Lütteken (artistic production assistant)/ Yvonne Marcour (outfitter and costume designer)/ Hannah Melder (production manager, PR and marketing)/ Juliana Oliveira (artistic assistant and performer)/ Irene Pätzug (visual artist), Antje Pfundtner (choreographer, dancer and artistic director) and Nikolaus Woernle (composer and sound designer). Alternating guests and colleagues of Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft are, among others: Jenny Beyer, Verena Brakonier, Dani Brown, Michael Hirsch, Silke Hundertmark, Sven Kacirek, Barbara Lubich, Trinidad Martínez, Lea Martini, Fabrice Mazliah, Sheena McGrandles, Matthew Rogers, Regina Rossi, Anke Strauß, Anna Till.

In addition to her stage cooperations with Kampnagel Hamburg, K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie, FFT Düsseldorf, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft develops formats of artistic sharing. It is currently initiating the TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN, a meeting initiative to network, share resources and stabilize the exchange of knowledge.

In the context of questions such as „How do you share ideas? How do you share money?“, the TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN serve to promote a constant exchange among art professionals as well as to research their working conditions:

„We hope for a sustained self-empowerment of the scene in regular meetings to exchange creative and structural ideas on the practice of sharing – in the development of concrete new approaches for financing of dance art beyond individual projects as well as by focusing energy and resources.“ Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft

This six-year dialogue platform project is made possible with support from TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund. It takes place at regular intervals in different constellations and at different locations.

An info brochure summing up the various activities of Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft can be downloaded here.

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Team

Anne Kersting Dramaturge and curator

Dramaturge and curator. Works with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2010.

Anne Kersting dedicates her work to the practices of hosting in dance and performing arts.

From 2007-2011, together with Jochen Roller, she headed the Dance and Live Art department at Kampnagel in Hamburg. In 2009 she was project coordinator of the Tanzkongress taking place at Kampnagel under the direction of Sabine Gehm and Katharina von Wilcke. From 2014-2017 she was head of the dance and performance department at Theater Freiburg and worked with numerous artists on the communicability and accessibility of dance and performance, including Antonia Baehr, Jenny Beyer, Josep Caballero García, LIGNA, Mia Habib, Trajal Harrell, Sebastian Matthias, Ivana Müller, Mickaël Phelippeau, plan b, Antje Pfundtner, David Weber-Krebs, Gisèle Vienne and WLDN – Joanne Leighton.

She also shares her dramaturgical practice with students at the FU-Berlin, the University of Hamburg, the Theaterakademie and Performance Studies Hamburg and as a mentor with the residents at K3-Choreografisches Zentrum Hamburg.

Anne Kersting works continuously as a permanent dramaturgical team member with Jenny Beyer, Josep Caballero García, Patricia Carolin Mai and Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft, as a guest with Meine Damen und Herren and in France with Mickaël Phelippeau, Michel Schweizer and Alban Richard.

In 2021, together with Alexandra Schmidt, she founded the dramaturgical training platform MEETING POINT DRAMATURGY to research relational and dialogical dramaturgical practices.

Michael Lentner Lighting design and technical director

Lighting design and technical director. He has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2008.

Michael Lentner is a master of event technology with a focus on lighting; he has been working at Kampnagel Hamburg since 2000.

He develops lighting concepts for a variety of dance, performance and theater groups; in addition to Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft, also for She She Pop and Johanna Wokalek.

Vivienne Lütteken Artistic production assistant

Artistic production assistant. Works with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2021.

Vivienne Lütteken works as an artistic project manager and dancer in the Hamburg area. In addition to her work in the performing arts, she is currently studying to become a teacher.

Her dance origins lie in Uganda, where she started dancing in 2013. In 2016 and 2017 she took part in workshops at the École des Sables and in 2018 she completed her dance training at the Erika Klütz Schule Hamburg.

Between 2012 and 2022, she organized various dance workshops as the founder of the non-profit association KONA e.V. As a dance teacher, she leads team-building events, dance workshops for children and young people and women’s dance groups. As the mother of a daughter herself, she is passionate about empowering women through dancing together. In 2020, she founded the interdisciplinary production house FAMILY PRODUCTION together with Israel Akpan Sunday. In addition to her own projects, she works as an artistic project manager in the independent scene.

Yvonne Marcour Outfitter and costume designer

Outfitter and costume designer. She has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2006.

She studied costume design at the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften in Hamburg. After her graduation in 2002, her path led her to the theater as a stage and costume designer: among others, to the Magdeburg and Braunschweig theaters, Junges Theater Bremen, Theater Heilbronn, Hamburger Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg as well as the Ohnsorg Theater, where she worked with many different directors.

She has also been involved in various independent theater projects, short films, exhibitions as well as projects in the fields of styling, theater sculpture and mask making, among others.

Hannah Melder Production manager, PR and marketing

Production manager, PR and marketing. She has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2015.

She studied cultural sciences in Frankfurt an der Oder, Sofia and Nice. She completed her studies in 2010 with a German/French MA in media/communication/culture.

She has been working as a project manager at JOINT ADVENTURES – Walter Heun in Munich since 2010. She was responsible, full time, for the program planning and realization for the annual festival for dance and performance TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA (workshops, performances, symposium) as well as parts of the international guest performance season ACCESS TO DANCE. In addition, she also administered the support structures for guest performances (dance and theater) as well as co-productions (dance) of the NATIONALEN PERFORMANCE NETZ as well as the Bayerischen Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz e.V.. Since 2016, she has been a part-time administrator the support structures for guest performances in the field of theater for the NATIONALEN PERFORMANCE NETZ.

She has been working freelance as a production manager for various artists since 2015. In addition to Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft, she has also worked with the choreographers Stefan Dreher, Sabine Glenz, Stephan Herwig, Anna Konjetzky, Moritz Ostruschnjak and Johanna Richter (Munich).

Juliana Oliveira Artistic assistant and performer

Artistic assistant and performer. She has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2014.

The independent performer and theater maker Juliana Oliveira, born in Portugal in 1985, is the daughter of (blue-collar) workers and lives in Hamburg. She studied performing arts in Lisbon and in 2012 she received an MA in Performance Studies in Hamburg.

She produces her own works in different institutions and off-spaces, and cooperates with artists from the performing and visual arts as well as music. Her transdisciplinary activities are characterized by a conceptual-minimalist stringency and exuberant theatricality. (Self-)critical, structural and societal reflection is essential for her practice. Her works are produced and shown in Germany, Portugal and on the internet.

She forms the performance duo Granderath&Oliveira with Greta Granderath. Among others, she also worked with Nora Elberfeld, Teresa Hoffman, Barbara Schmidt-Rohr, Lucy Palustris, Frauen und Fiktion, &Sistig, Veronique Langlott and Jonas Woltemate.

Since 2012, she has been a member of the Probebühne im Gängeviertel e.V. and since 2017, she has been broadcasting – together with Heike Bröckerhoff – a monthly discursive radio show about the independent scene in Hamburg, PLATEAU, on Radio FSK.

www.julianaoliveira.de

Irene Pätzug Visual artist

Visual artist. She has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2016.

 

She studied costume design at the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften in Hamburg. After her graduation in 2002, her path led her to the theater as a stage and costume designer: among others, to the Magdeburg and Braunschweig theaters, Junge Theater Bremen, Theater Heilbronn, Hamburger Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg as well as the Ohnsorg Theater, where she worked with many different directors.

She has also been involved in various independent theater projects, short films, exhibitions as well as projects in the fields of styling, theater sculpture and mask making, among others.

Antje Pfundtner Choreographer, dancer and artistic director

has been living and working as a choreographer in Hamburg since 2001.

In addition to the solo „eigenSinn“ that she danced in and showed worldwide (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2004) and „TIM ACY“ (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2012), numerous group and cooperative pieces were created, among them „selbstinschuld“ (2005), „Outlanders“ (2006), „inDeckung“ (2007), „RES(E)T“ (2008), „VERTANZT“ (2011), the TANZFONDS ERBE project „NUSSKNACKER“ (2012), „Dating my memory“ (2013) – a work for the Staatstheater Braunschweig, „Tanz unter freiem Himmel“ (2013, Cameroon), „Aus der Reihe tanzen“ (2015). The solo „Platz nehmen“ was her contribution to the Monologfestival Berlin and premiered there in November 2019.

Antje Pfundtner has been touring internationally with her solo „nimmer“ (2014/2015) – her first dance piece for children and adults that was shown at the GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2016. Since then, she has developed six additional pieces for children and young adults: „Für mich“ (2018), in the context of the explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum project at the K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie, „Ich bin nicht du“ (2019) and „Open Call“ (2022), both works on commission by the Junges Theater Bremen (Moks), „Die Höhle auf Erden“ (2022) for the Schauspiel Hannover, „treznok“ (2023) for the Elbphilharmonie and „QUATSCH“ (2023) for tanzmainz.

For the period from 2015-2019, Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft once again received a concept grant from the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and is devoting a trilogy to the subject „melancholy“. The first piece in the trilogy, „ENDE“, had its world premiere at Kampnagel Hamburg in December 2016. „Alles auf Anfang“ (2018) followed, as did the performative video installation „Letzte Schritte“ (2019), together with the filmmaker Barbara Lubich. The trilogy ended in October 2019 at Kampnagel Hamburg with the collective solo „Sitzen ist eine gute Idee“ (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2022).

With „We Call it a House“, initially conceived as an analogue stage piece for three dancers, for the first time and due to pandemic reasons, a film premiered in May 2021. In February 2023, the piece was finally staged!

Furthermore, Antje Pfundtner, together with i.a. the dramaturge Anne Kersting, develop artistic formats of exchanging knowledge: in 2012, APiG presented the „TAUSCHBÖRSE DER ERINNERUNGEN“, in 2014 APiG was a co-host of the GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM with the „ARCHIV DER AUFFÜHRUNGEN“. For her „TEILGESELLSCHAFTEN“ project and its follow-up project „JEDE MENGE“, APiG will receive the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund funding from 2018-2024. Within this funding, Antje Pfundtner and Anne Kersting are currently initiating the TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN, a meeting initiative to network, share resources and stabilize the exchange of knowledge.

In 2016, Antje Pfundtner received the George Tabori Hauptpreis, in 2020 the German Dance Award for „outstanding artistic developments“ and the DER FAUST theater prize in the category „Direction children’s and young adult’s theater“ for her piece „Ich bin nicht du“.

In October 2021 Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft celebrated its 20-year anniversary at Kampnagel Hamburg!

Nikolaus Woernle Composer and sound designer

Composer and sound designer. He has been working with Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft since 2016.

He has been active in the fields of film sound, sound design and music production since the beginning of the 1990s.

Due to his musical education on the clarinet, guitar and piano, as well as career experience in the recording studio business and on film sets, he has developed a work method that unifies his technical and artistic abilities.

From 2002-2013, he was a member of the theater and performance group norton.commander.productions; it received the 2010 George Tabori Prize. Since 2005, he has been creating diverse installations in the field of sound art as well as appearing on stage in performances that transcend genres.

His compositions can be heard on stages throughout Germany, among them HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Schauspielhaus Braunschweig, FFT Düsseldorf, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater an der Parkaue.

www.nikolauswoernle.de

Photos: Simone Scardovelli

About Tischgesellschaften

WHAT IS THE BASIS OF THE TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN?

The urgent questions: „How do you share ideas? How do you share money?“
In the context of its TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN, the core team of ANTJE PFUNDTNER IN GESELLSCHAFT (APiG) will explore these questions and invite people to a dialogue format that is meant to facilitate resource sharing among artists as well as research into their own working conditions.
This six-year TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN project, which is divided into numerous episodes, is made possible with support from TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund.

WHO ARE THE TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN GUESTS?

They are colleagues from dance and the performing arts who would like to exchange knowledge with one another and/ or might already organize their own sharing networks. We are looking forward to sharing issues, experiences, motivations, exigencies and expertise with you. So, for that, in advance: thanks!

WHAT PERSPECTIVES ARE WE INVITING YOU TO SHARE WITH US?

We develop visions together of what practices and formats of sharing can be developed in TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN and seek out the first projects and initiatives that TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN could already initiate today.

FIRST STEPS

Beyond all stage productions, APiG has examined forms of hospitality and has initiated different forms of dialogues with audiences, theaters and institutions from the field of cultural politics. Up until now, the means were not available for a focused and sustained exchange with artists from the national dance scene – on questions of transparency, sharing knowledge and passing knowledge on to others. We would thus like to establish a dialogue platform for dance and performing arts professionals in order to discuss sharing practices.

We hope for a sustained self-empowerment of the scene from regular meetings to exchange creative and structural ideas of „How do you share ideas? How do you share money?“ – in the development of concrete new approaches for financing of dance art beyond individual projects as well as focusing energy and resources.

APiG takes the first step and suggests possible subjects for further TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN:

„GETEILT DURCH“ [DIVIDED BY]: What could alternative work and support models look like? How can an „artist fund“ be created that secures exchange and can be financed by public (project) funding?

„FÜR WEN?“ [FOR WHOM]: Here, the role of the audience will be discussed while they are present. Who are our audience members? How can an audience perspective flow back into artistic work?

„WIEDER DA“ [BACK AGAIN]: Independent dance creators produce pieces that are rarely shown and usually can not be repeatedly due to a lack of funds. What perspective on artistic works would make revivals possible? What could work on your own archive generate for audiences and future generations? This TISCHGESELLSCHAFT aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discussion about cultural politics and about the responsibility in dealing with artistic resources in independent performing arts.

We are looking forward to collecting more subjects with you!

WHO ARE THE CONTACTS?

Antje Pfundtner (artistic direction at APiG)
Anne Kersting (dramaturge and curator at APiG)
Hannah Melder (production manager, PR & marketing at APiG)

Funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.

About Antje Pfundtner

Antje Pfundtner received her education at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in the Moderne Theaterdans department. As a dancer, she worked with Michèle Anne de Mey, Marcelo Evelin, Tony Vezich and David Hernandez, among others. Various grants – among them, a danceWEB grant – brought her to New York and Vienna.

Since 2001, Antje Pfundtner has been living and working as a choreographer in Hamburg. In addition to her solos, which she danced herself and presented worldwide, such as „eigenSinn“ (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2004), „TIM ACY“ (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2012) and „nimmer“, her first piece for children (and adults) (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2016), many other group and cooperative projects were created: „selbstinschuld“ (2005), „Outlanders“ (2006), a cooperative work with the Chinese choreographer Wen Hui of the Living Dance Studio Beijing, „inDeckung“ (2007), „RES(E)T“ (2008), „VERTANZT“ (2011), the TANZFONDS ERBE project „NUSSKNACKER“ (2012) as well as „Dating my memory“ (2013 Staatstheater Braunschweig), „Tanz unter freiem Himmel“ (2013 Cameroon), a cooperative project with the choreographer Gladys Tchuimo and André Takou Saa, „Aus der Reihe tanzen“ (2015) and „Für mich“ (2018), her second piece for children (and adults) in the context of the explore dance project – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum at the K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie. In 2019, her next piece for children „Ich bin nicht du“ (a work on commission for Junges Theater Bremen) premiered, in 2022 „Open Call“, again a work on commission for the Junges Theater Bremen and „Die Höhle auf Erden“ for the Schauspiel Hannover. With „treznok“ and „QUATSCH“ her first works on commission for the Elbphilharmonie and for tanzmainz followed in 2023. The solo „Platz nehmen“ was her contribution to the Monologfestival Berlin and premiered there in November 2019.

To found her Gesellschaft (Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft), her society, Antje Pfundtner received the concept funding of the Hamburg administration for culture and media as the first choreographer in 2012/2013. For the 2015-2019 seasons, APiG once again received concept funding; in this context, it worked on a trilogy about mortality and the laws of temporality. The first piece of the trilogy, „ENDE“, premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg in December 2016. „Alles auf Anfang“ followed in February 2018, also at Kampnagel Hamburg. In October 2019, the trilogy ended with the last part, „Sitzen ist eine gute Idee“ (GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM 2022).
In January 2019, the performative video installation „Letzte Schritte“, which APiG developed together with the filmmaker Barbara Lubich, also premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg. This work was created during the research for the piece „ENDE“.

With „We Call it a House“, initially conceived as an analogue stage piece for three dancers, for the first time and due to pandemic reasons, a film premiered in May 2021. In February 2023, the piece was finally staged!

Furthermore, Antje Pfundtner, together with i.a. the dramaturge Anne Kersting, develop artistic formats of exchanging knowledge: in 2012, APiG presented the „TAUSCHBÖRSE DER ERINNERUNGEN“, in 2014 APiG was a co-host of the GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM with the „ARCHIV DER AUFFÜHRUNGEN“. For her „TEILGESELLSCHAFTEN“ project and its follow-up project “JEDE MENGE”, APiG will receive the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund funding from 2018-2024. Within this funding, Antje Pfundtner and Anne Kersting are currently initiating the TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN, a meeting initiative to network, share resources and stabilize the exchange of knowledge.

In addition to various commissioned works and collaborations, Antje Pfundtner also offers international workshops. On invitation by Linz09, she took part in probably the largest European school project, „I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT“. Antje Pfundtner was the recipient of the Patenschaftsfonds der Kunststiftung NRW, was selected for the network Modul-dance in 2012 and nominated for the George Tabori Förderpreis in 2014. In 2016, she received the George Tabori Hauptpreis, in 2020 the German Dance Award for „outstanding artistic developments“ and the DER FAUST theater prize in the category “Direction children’s and young adult’s theater” for her piece Ich bin nicht du.

In October 2021 Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft celebrated its 20-year anniversary at Kampnagel Hamburg!