CY LINKE

Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker

ABOUT

I am an author, director, performer and bodyworker. 

Currently I work on eating disorders* as products of and protests against powerstructures, on decolonising bodies and sexualities, on sexism in medicine and on strategies to encounter queer- and trans*phobia.

My artistic practice is an ongoing rewriting of stories, memories and visions. My approach is autofictional, sometimes interview based and always in love with my and human vulnerability. Social microcosms such as families, friend- and partnerships draw my attention as focus points for social power dynamics and the possibility of change.

Since 2022 I give sessions in somatic bodywork following my fascination for bodies and somatics. Since 2018 I research with the psychologist Hannah Lesser on groups, power and salutogenesis.

Since 2017 I invent shapes for encounters for friends, neighbours and people who don’t know each other (yet). I like to make up games.

I identify as genderfluid and use the pronouns they/them/no pronouns.

RECENTLY

Work stipends for literature by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as well as the Baby David-Stipendium für Neues Erzählen.

Mentee of Heinrich Horwitz as part of the mentoring program “Re:Balance - Gender Equality in the Arts” of the Rudolf Augstein Foundation.

Future Nostalgia, Lecture Performance at the international conference “1974-2024: Annie Ernaux’s Years – a Global Perspective”, Edinburgh & St Andrews.

Sohn* werden at Staatstheater Brunswick.

Stierhunger at Ballhaus Ost Berlin and at Lichthof Theater Hamburg. Supported by the Entry Grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the #TakeHeart program of the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART Kultur.

Sex und Kartoffeln at Theater Magdeburg.

2012-2015

Philosophy-Arts-Media, Universität Hildesheim, graduation about acting & embodiment

2015-2021

Directing, Hochschule für Musik und Theater (HfMT) Hamburg & Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) Zürich, graduation with FALLEN (durchgestrichen) at Schauspiel Hannover, invited to Körber Studio Junge Regie, Thalia Theater 2022 and to OUT NOW Festival Bremen 2023. Theoretical work on working methods and communication in the performing arts

2012-2021 

Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2022-2023

Training in the Pantarei Approach, Somatic Bodywork, Berlin

2024

Grantee of Culture Moves Europe for working in Marseille on rewriting and queering myths with Karin Schlageter

2023

FALLEN (durchgestrichen): invited to OUT NOW Festival Bremen

2023

Touch Me I’m Going To Scream: research on beatboxing and guttural singing as queerfeminist self-empowerment tools supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR

2022

She*’s the Man*: residency at Ballhaus Ost Berlin about drag and non-binary body languages supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR

2022 

Foodporn: research and conceptual work supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUT. Support programme dance

2022 

Research for Stierhunger supported by the cultural funding of the Goethe-Institut

2022 

FALLEN (durchgestrichen): invited to Körber Studio Junge Regie, Thalia Theater Hamburg

2022

Über Freund:innenschaft: invited to COMMON PLACES, Tage für Partizipation und Theater

2021 

52 HERTZ: invited to HAUPTSACHE FREI Festival, Hamburg

2021 

52 HERTZ: invited to 6 tage frei Festival, Stuttgart

2021 

Poesie der Bulimie: Research on bulimic images and conversations with other ex-bulimics supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR

2020

Schatten (Eurydike sagt): invited to WE PRESENT at Lichthof Theatre Hamburg

2020 

Interdisciplinary Art Award Beethoven Reloaded for Beethoven’s Escape Room

2018-2020

Mentee of Nina Peters (Suhrkamp Theaterverlag): mentoring programme of the Performing Arts Programme Berlin (PAP)

2018

Writers Residence with Familienfest oder wie man einen Goldfisch schluckt at Uckermark Festival

2017

Das Haus: invited to Salzig On Stage, Thomas Bernhard Seminar

2016

uniform: invited to WE PRESENT at Lichthof Theater Hamburg

2016

am Abend ist Maidan ein lautes Wort: invited to Lyrikpreis München

2014

Resideny at the international summer festival Kampnagel, Hamburg

2012

Scholarship by Stiftung Niedersachsen: Literaturlabor Wolfenbüttel

2012

ziehen Sie etwas an den Haaren herbei: Prize for literature by postpoetry Nachwuchs NRW

2012

Portraits: invited to Lyrikpreis München and to Treffen junger Autor:innen Berlin