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Background: Master’s degree in Acting and Directing (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Max Reinhardt Seminar) / work as director (Schillertheater Rudolstadt, ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel) / practitioner of Fooling, a playful approach to the inner world, since 2013 / member of the Nomadic Academy for Fools from 2018 to 2025

Objectives: Consciously stepping in and out of narratives. My work is inspired by the archetype of the Fool, whom I consider free from any fixed role or state, yet able to embody them. My work seeks to realize the freedom of one’s own Fool – and to understand what hinders it. “Who else but you?” points to the hidden aspects of oneself as well as the fact that only oneself can bring about change.

Methods: Theatre improvisation. Basic tools: uncertainty (accepting not knowing), receptivity (being guided from within), inner dialogue (embodied response-ability), and humor (especially the ability to laugh at oneself). The stage becomes one’s inner world, which the practitioner explores by embodying whatever arises – characters from one’s life, animals, objects, moods. All become part of embodied response-ability.

Results and Conclusion: Acceptance of what is present – development of self-love. Shifting focus from outside to inside, getting in touch with one’s own needs. Improved ability to listen – to oneself and to the world around. This work is highly complex: it combines inner and community work, serves as stress reduction and awareness training, and addresses both what one knows and what one does not yet know.