Johannes Schütz

Born 1952 in Cologne, studied conceptual art in 1975 and 1976 at the California Institute of the Arts and between 1977 and 1982 he occasionally studied philosophy, art history and Egyptian studies at the University of Cologne. He has undertaken long journeys through the South Seas, the Caribbean, North and Central America, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. In 1992 he was one of the founding professors for media art at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG), and since 1999 he has been a tenured professor for media art at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Born in Frankfurt am Main and studied acting from 1994 to 1998 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. After her training she was engaged at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. From there she went to the Baracke at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and then to the ensemble at Schaubü hne Berlin. She also appeared as a guest performer at Volksbü hne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Bochum, and Schauspiel Frankfurt. In 2003 she joined the ensemble of Dieter Dorn at the Bavarian State Theater. Since 2009 she has been at Thalia Theater Hamburg. Born in 1954 in Munich. He studied history, theatre studies, and medicine, and gained doctorates in history in 1977 and medicine in 1982. From 1976 he published in newspapers and magazines, including Sü ddeutsche Zeitung and the music magazine Spex. His first novel, Irre (Insane), a story about psychiatry, was published in 1983. His writing was decisively influenced by techno and house music, and he accompanied well-known DJs like Westbam and Sven Vä th on tour and wrote a number of widely discussed texts about techno and DJ culture. Rainald Goetz lives in Berlin. Born in Locarno in Italian-speaking Switzerland, grew up near Zurich. Trained as an actress at the É cole SupÉ rieure des Arts et Techniques du ThÉ â tre in Paris and has worked since then as a freelance actress and author in France and in German-speaking Europe.