The next generation of TYA artists...
...is ready to take responsibility.
Julia Dina Hesse (*1981) has been on the board of ASSITEJ Germany for more than six years and was elected vice president in 2018.
As the artistic director of the Junges Theater Muenster she hosted festivals and international guest artists. As a professional in communication and an expert in music theatre, she worked at the National Theater in Mannheim. As a freelance director and dramaturg she has worked and traveled internationally. As a researcher her focus is on sustainability and the role TYA can play in initiating and facilitating change. As an activist she fights for children's rights, good working conditions in the arts and the performing arts as an accessible utopia for everyone.
Feel free to contact Julia if you wish to start a dialogue with her.Julia is fluent in German, English and French.
Julia's Mission
"I believe in the importance of TYA and its global activities to support and strengthen every young person’s right to culture, arts and education no matter where they are born. Both, young audiences and their artists, need a strong and efficient network that gives them a voice and clearly articulates their needs and interests.
Having been a member in several professional networks, festival and award juries as well as political committees, I quickly familiarize myself with new topics and I am used to productive working structures and collective decision making and I love to brainstorm “outside the box”.
I believe in the power of (fair) cooperation instead of competition. Our audiences and our art profit most when theatre makers from all continents and places – mega cities to villages – and various artistic languages exchange and learn from each other. The EC can help find the common ground in all our individual tasks and struggles in order to develop strategies for shared artistic endeavors and cultural policies. I would love to be part of this empowering network and to contribute to a sustainable future for TYA as a change agent in transformational processes all over the world."
World Congress 2021
ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival 2021
A delegation of 60 theatre makers, researchers and TYA experts from Germany will join the ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Tokyo from 22 March - 1 April 2021.
Works of Innovation in Times of the Pandemic: ASSITEJ Germany and the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre (KJTZ) reacted quickly to the first lockdown in 2020: 15 mini-scholarships were given to artists who had ideas how to stay in touch with their audiences and use digital tools to bridge distances. We are happy to present mit+abstand on the first day of the Congress. You can read a comprehensive reflection (by Philip Schulte) of the project-based virtual theatre season here or you can join us on March 22 to learn more about Till Wiebel's project.
New Directions in TYA: ASSITEJ Germany and the Goethe-Institute in Tokyo will host a professional exchange on directing in TYA on March 28th. Hannah Biedermann and Theo Fransz will reflect on directing from a German perspective and Kenjiro Otani and Yuna Koyama will bring their experience in Japan to the Zoom-Room we share. You can find more information on all directors and their work here or on the Website of the Goethe-Institute Tokyo.
In 2020 an English edition of our magazine IXYPSILONZETT (= XYZ) was published that invited diretors to reflect on their work. It is available as a free download here: https://www.theaterderzeit.de/archiv/ixypsilonzett/2020/05/ One of the contributors to the publication is our EC candidate Julia Dina Hesse.
Feel free to contact Meike Fechner if you have any questions or would like to contact some of the authors and directors or anyone who is part of the delegation from Germany.
ASSITEJ Germany's contribution to the 2021 World Congress and Festival is funded and supported by The Federal Department of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugendt) and the Goethe-Institut.
Our EC Candidate: Julia Dina Hesse
The next generation of TYA artists...
...is ready to take responsibility.
Julia Dina Hesse (*1981) has been on the board of ASSITEJ Germany for more than six years and was elected vice president in 2018.
As the artistic director of the Junges Theater Muenster she hosted festivals and international guest artists. As a professional in communication and an expert in music theatre, she worked at the National Theater in Mannheim. As a freelance director and dramaturg she has worked and traveled internationally. As a researcher her focus is on sustainability and the role TYA can play in initiating and facilitating change. As an activist she fights for children's rights, good working conditions in the arts and the performing arts as an accessible utopia for everyone.
Feel free to contact Julia if you wish to start a dialogue with her.Julia is fluent in German, English and French.
Julia's Mission
"I believe in the importance of TYA and its global activities to support and strengthen every young person’s right to culture, arts and education no matter where they are born. Both, young audiences and their artists, need a strong and efficient network that gives them a voice and clearly articulates their needs and interests.
Having been a member in several professional networks, festival and award juries as well as political committees, I quickly familiarize myself with new topics and I am used to productive working structures and collective decision making and I love to brainstorm “outside the box”.
I believe in the power of (fair) cooperation instead of competition. Our audiences and our art profit most when theatre makers from all continents and places – mega cities to villages – and various artistic languages exchange and learn from each other. The EC can help find the common ground in all our individual tasks and struggles in order to develop strategies for shared artistic endeavors and cultural policies. I would love to be part of this empowering network and to contribute to a sustainable future for TYA as a change agent in transformational processes all over the world."
