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Max Schumacher
Max Schumacher studied dramaturgy in Berlin and Performance Studies at New York University (M.A.). He founded post theater in New York in 1999, moved to Berlin in 2002. His media-performances toured internationally, approx. 50 projects to more than 20 countries, including hosts like e.g. International Festival for the Arts CyL, Salamanca, Digital Arts Festival Tokyo, Tanz im August Berlin. He was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. He won the Stuttgart Theater Award 2015 for “Jobs in Heaven”, a piece on Steve Jobs and Robert Bosch and 2017 for “House of Hope”, a piece on the crisis of housing in big cities. His artistic focus in on merging theater with media art, motivated by strong content, conducting detailed research and applying thorough dramaturgy.