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Workshop-Teilnehmer der Akademie der Spiele 2013

KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

Akademie der Spiele 2014

The Academy of Play has established itself as a fixed element of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and will take place in 2014 for the fifth time. Although the academy is based on a concept originating in the Baroque era, it can be described as a laboratory for the future: no-one less than the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz provides the inspiration for the week-long transformation of the Großer Garten into a free space for ideas.

Leibnitz’ concept that pleasure and insight are irrevocably linked provides the fundamental idea of this creative workshops. Young persons between 10 and 17 are given the rare opportunity to exchange ideas with international renowned artists and receive creative impulses through their experiences. Participants and workshop supervisors work together for a week before presenting the results of the workshop on Friday in the Pavilion of the Senses.
The following participants hold six individual workshops utilising their own individual artistic media:

AUFTRAG : LOREY the directors collective Stefanie Lorey, Hamburg, and Björn Auftrag, Gießen
NAOMI BRAGIN dancer and choreographer from Berkeley, USA
RONALD CLARK director of the Herrenhausen Gardens and students from the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the Leibniz University of Hanover
STEPHAN EBERHARD scientific assistant at the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University of Berlin
FREITAGSKÜCHE cooking and art from Frankfurt am Main
THOMAS GOERGE artist and stage and costume designer, Hallbergmoos
AMEER LOGGINS musician and producer, doctoral student in African diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
SINA NITZSCHE academic assistant at the Institute for English and American Studies at the TU Dortmund
SIMON SCHWARTZ illustrator and comic-strip artist from Hamburg.