Stierhunger (English / German)
Sex und Kartoffeln (English / German)
Dippel. Diagnose CIN III (English / German)
Foodporn (English / German)
FALLEN (durchgestrichen)
(English / German)
D.D. Rabbit (English / German)
An Bas Jan Ader (English / German)
On Friendship (English / German)
52 HERTZ (English / German)
Schatten (Eurydike sagt) (English / German)
Familienfest oder wie man einen Goldfisch schluckt (English / German)
Sterben Üben (English / German)
Von der Schlucht (English / German)
Kollektiv Kunterbunt (English / German)
Schorf (English / German)
uniform (English / German)
Am Abend ist Maidan ein lautes Wort (English / German)
out of season (English / German)
Portraits (English / German)
Neighbourhood Game (English / German)
Neujahrsspiel (English / German)
Play, with Food (English / German)
Escape Room (English / German)
Intimite Talks (English / German)
Dropbox (English / German)
ANNA KIRSTINE LINKE
Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker
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Foto: Victoria Tomaschko
Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker
Foto: Victoria Tomaschko
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.
NOW
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.
Work stipends for literature by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion for writing my first novel.
Dippel. Diagnose CIN III at Kosmos Theater Wien. Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7) and the Women's Service of the City of Vienna (MA 57). With the kind support of the Endometriosis Association Austria.
Sex und Kartoffeln at Theater Magdeburg.
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.
NOW
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.
Work stipends for literature by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion for writing my first novel.
Dippel. Diagnose CIN III at Kosmos Theater Wien. Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7) and the Women's Service of the City of Vienna (MA 57). With the kind support of the Endometriosis Association Austria.
Sex und Kartoffeln at Theater Magdeburg.
STUDIES
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
FESTIVALS / RESIDENCIES / RESEARCH
2024
Future Nostalgia: lecture performance in Edinburgh at the international conference: “1974-2024: Annie Ernaux’s Years – a Global Perspective”
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
2022
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
Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker
Contact: annakirstinelinke (at) posteo (dot) de
Looking forward to your mail.