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Prof. Björn Bicker

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Teaching and research areas

  • Cultural work and community building
  • Artistic-aesthetic methods as social work
  • Artistic-aesthetic practice: theater, performance, literature, artivism
  • Creative Writing
  • Practice and theory of cultural education
  • Artistic Research / Artistic Research

Functions

At the university:

Outside the university:

  • Member of the PEN Center Germany
  • Board of Trustees Evangelische Stadtakademie München
  • Pro Asylum
  • Bellevue di Monaco
  • Association of University Teachers (Hlb)

Courses

  • Social science perspectives
  • Social work science
  • Systemic social work
  • Offender support
  • Public relations

Short vita

  • Since SS 2021: Professor of Cultural Work and Community Building at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences
  • 2009 – 2021: Freelance work as a theater maker (author, director, dramaturge), writer, project developer, lecturer and curator in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, Venice, Toronto, among others.
  • 2001 – 2009: Dramaturg at the Münchner Kammerspiele and lecturer at the Otto Falckenbergschule Munich.
  • 1999 – 2001: Assistant dramaturge and dramaturge Burgtheater Vienna
  • 1991 – 1999: Studied literature, philosophy and general rhetoric in Tübingen and Vienna.

more at www.bjoernbicker.de

Projects

Artistic city projects (selection)

  • Teachers.
    Artistic direction with Malte Jelden.
    Schauspielhaus Bochum.
    2019.
  • Islamophobia: Truth and Reconciliation Concert.
    Concert and discourse performance as part of Performing Architecture of the Goethe Institute in Venice 2018.
    Idea, concept, development.
  • The Veddel Embassy: Representing Germany by Björn Bicker and Malte Jelden.
    Performance in the Chiesa della Misericordia Venetia together with 60 residents of the Hamburg district of Veddel from October 18-25, 2016.
    As part of Performing Architecture by the Goethe Institute in collaboration with the German Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
    Idea, concept, development.
    Artistic direction together with Malte Jelden.
  • Munich Welcome Theater.
    A conversion project by Björn Bicker and Malte Jelden.
    Munich Kammerspiele 2015/2016.
    The aim was to open up the municipal theater to the topics of flight and arrival at all levels of the company in a joint process with the theater’s employees.
  • Open Border Congress. Münchner Kammerspiele, October 16 – 18, 2015. Kick-off for the conversion project MUNICH WELCOME THEATRE. Idea, concept, development. Artistic direction together with Malte Jelden, with the participation of numerous artists, journalists and experts, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, among others. The aim was to bring local initiatives, refugee organizations and supra-regional actors into contact with each other and to present their work to the public.” The focus was on innovative and forward-looking projects that are committed to the idea of participation, democratization and empowerment.
  • Urban Prayers Ruhr.
    An urban dream project of the Ruhrtriennale 2016.
    Idea, concept, development.
    Artistic direction together with Malte Jelden and Johan Simons.
  • New Hamburg.
    Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
    2012 – 2015: The transformation of the Lutheran Immanuel Church in Hamburg’s Veddel district into a COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER.
    www.new-hamburg.de
  • Urban Prayers (MUC).
    An urban project of the Münchner Kammerspiele.
    Idea, concept, development.
    Artistic direction together with Malte Jelden, Julia Lochte and Johan Simons.
    2014.
  • NORD – A district turns.
    State Theater Stuttgart.
    June 27 – July 18, 2014.
    Artistic direction together with Malte Jelden, Michael Graessner and Katrin Spira.
  • ILLEGAL.
    A project.
    Munich Kammerspiele 2008.
    Idea, concept, development. Artistic direction together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner.
  • Main school of freedom.
    Urban space Munich 2009.
    Idea, concept, development.
    Artistic direction together with Christine Umpfenbach, Peter Kastenmüller, Michael Graessner.
    Federal Prize for Cultural Education.
  • BUNNYHILL 1,   Münchner Kammerspiele, Stadtraum München 2004.
    Idea, concept, development.
    Artistic direction together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner.