Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Tobias Rausch

Tobias Rausch

Senior Fellow

© Sebastian Hoppe, Staatsschauspiel Dresden

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Tobias Rausch works as a director, author and lecturer. After studying philosophy, biology and literature, he founded the performance collective lunatiks and staged productions at numerous municipal and state theaters and in the independent scene. From 2019 to 2024 he directed the Bürger:Bühne at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. He teaches regularly at universities, including the Berlin University of the Arts, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Zurich University of the Arts. He has received numerous awards and scholarships for his work, including the Otto Kasten Prize from the Intendants' Group at the German Stage Association in 2012 and 1st prize in the NO!peras competition of the Experimental Music Theater Fund in 2019. Together with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, IASS Potsdam and nachtkritik, he curated the 2019 "Climate meets Theater" conference in Berlin.

  • 2019 - 2024 - Head of Bürger:Bühne at Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2019 - Curator of the Conference "Climate Meets Theatre - About the Narrability of the Climate Crisis" in cooperation with nachtkritik.de, IASS Potsdam, Dramaturgische Gesellschaft
  • 2016 - 2018 - Artistic director of the Interdisciplinary research project on the textile industries "STOFF" in cooperation with Theater Bielefeld, University Bielefeld, FH Bielefeld
  • 2015 - Curator of the interdisciplinary conference about research theatre "Berliner Recherchetheatertage" in cooperation with Deutsches Theater Berlin, Institut für Qualitative Forschung and »Netzwerk Recherche«
  • since 2010 - Teaching assignments at Mozarteum Salzburg, Academy of Theatre "August Everding" Munich, University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), University of the Arts Braunschweig (HBK), University Bremen
  • 2010 - 2015 - Artistic director of "Die Welt ohne uns - Botanical Long-term theatre" in cooperation with Schauspiel Hannover, Leibniz-University Hanover etc.
  • since 2009 - Jury member in the Heimspiel Fund of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes & in the Fonds Darstellende Künste
  • 2008 - Artistic director of the interdisplinary festival on crime and society "performing crime" in cooperation with University Bremen, HfK Bremen, Criminal Police Bremen etc.
  • since 2002 - Freelance theatre director and author (i.a. at Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Gorki-Theater Berlin, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Oper Bremen, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Basel, ...) and in the independent theatre scene (i.a. Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele Berlin, LOFFT Leipzig, ...)

  • Methods of artistic research and interview techniques
  • Climate and ecological crisis on stage
  • Post-anthropological theatre
  • Oral history of Western Germany and GDR
  • Nuclear history
  • Crime and society

Publications prior to joining the RIFS

Rausch, Tobias. Schlamm zwischen Logistikzentren. In: Bergmann, Holger/Opel, Anna: Global Village Projects 2023. Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Künste 2023.

Besier Christine/Rausch, Tobias/Schmidt, René: Atombomben aus Sachsen - Werkstattbericht, In: Die deutsche Bühne 10/2022.

Rausch, Tobias. Jenseits des Menschen. In: Ixypsiolonzett 01/2022.

Rausch, Tobias. Staging Nature; auf: https://nachtkritik.de/recherche-debatte/staging-nature-theatermacher-tobias-rausch-ueber-die-schwierigkeit-die-natur-auf-die-buehne-zu-bringen, 15.10.2019.

Rausch, Tobias. Recherche. Beitrag in der Begriffssammlung Performative Künste, http://performative-kuenste.de, 2019.

Feindel, Ruth/Rausch, Tobias. Von jetzt an ist alles Material - Recherchetheater, eine Kunstform auf der Höhe unserer Zeit; auf: https://nachtkritik.de/recherche-debatte/recherchetheater-theatermacher-tobias-rausch-und-dramaturgin-ruth-feindel-portraetieren-eine-realistische-kunstform-auf-der-hoehe-unserer-zeit, 06.01.2016. Lengers, Birgit/Rausch, Tobias. „Magic Fonds - Berichte über die magische Kraft des Kapitals". Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit 2012. Rausch, Tobias. „Oder Bruch". Croustillier: Aufland Verlag 2012. Rausch, Tobias. „Falsifikation - Forschung und Theater" In: dg-Magazin, Berlin: Dramaturgische Gesellschaft 2012. Mickan, Janette/Rausch, Tobias/Remmert, Heiner. „Schwärme im Schneesturm". In: Kristina Volke (Hrsg.): Intervention Kultur, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2010. Flasspöhler, Svenja/Rausch, Tobias/Wald, Christina (Hrsg.). Kippfiguren der Wiederholung, Frankfurt a.M./New York: Peter Lang 2008.

  • Winner in the NOperas-Competition of the Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater 2019
  • Otto-Kasten-Award of the Intendantengruppe im Deutschen Bühnenverein 2012
  • Bremen Authors and Producers Award 2007
  • Nominated for Young Director of the year in the journal Theater heute 2011
  • Residency Scholarship at Literaturhaus deutscher Sprache Prague 2010
  • hominis urbanis-Scholarship at Villa Decius Krakau 2005
  • Humboldt-Award 2001
  • Invitations to the Author's Theatre Days at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (2010 & 2011), International Schiller Days (2005 & 2017), Frankfurt Positions (2013).