Research Institute for
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Tobias Rausch

Affiliate Scholar

© Sebastian Hoppe, Staatsschauspiel Dresden

E-Mail

tobias [dot] rausch [at] rifs-potsdam [dot] de

Tobias Rausch will, as an Affiliate Scholar, prepare a research project on the arts-based exploration of narratives of complexity avoidance. In collaboration with Dr. Gesine Steudle (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) and Dr. Jobst Heitzig (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK), he will develop an agent-based modelling approach and the staging of a complex decision-making scenario. This experimental setting will be used to investigate the extent to which the attitudes of selected target groups toward complexity and uncertainty can be challenged and transformed.

Together with the research group leader, he will further develop the social science foundations for the analysis of existing narratives of complexity avoidance and establish a network of academic and artistic-creative collaborators whose expertise will support the project. In cooperation with these partners, he will also prepare applications for third-party funding to enable the implementation and further development of the research project.

  • 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

Selected 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).