Nina Tecklenburg

Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg is a theatre maker and scholar. She is a co-artistic director of the performance group Interrobang and has collaborated with award-winning performance groups and artists including Gob Squad, She She Pop, Lone Twin Theatre, Baktruppen, and Rabih Mroué. Her (co-)productions have been presented at venues and festivals such as HAU Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Public Theater New York, The Barbican London, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Ivan Franko Theatre Kyiv, Meyerhold Center Moscow, Wiener Festwochen, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, IMPULSE Festival, and Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Esplanade Singapore, among many others.

In 2017-18 she was a guest professor at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin (department of Directing) and has taught at various institutions such as Bern University of the Arts, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Hildesheim, Berlin University of the Arts. 

Her current artistic and academic research interests include theater and digital culture, new narrative practices in contemporary performance, politics of participation, and performance activism. She is the author of Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance (Seagull Books 2022, German original: transcript 2016, second edition) and co-editor of Hybrid Futures. Theatre and Performance in the Post/pandemic Anthropocene (special edition of International Journal for Performing Arts and Digital Media, 2023). In 2021-22, she was a member of the practice-based research project Viral Theatres (VolkswagenStiftung). She co-leads the global teaching project and network collaborative course Performance and Digital Culture, supported by GHEA21 (former OSUN). Most recently, she co-directed and performed with Interrobang Chatbot Challenge (2024, premiere at HAU Berlin, touring in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and Mexico) and Commune AI (2023, premiere at HAU; among others invited to re:publica 2025).
 
Further links
Interrobang website
Performance and Digital Culture website

Contact
Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg

Theater and Performance
Email: n.tecklenburg[at]berlin.bard.edu​​​