Sebastian Kaiser
Sebastian Kaiser was born in East Berlin and studied Culture and Theatre in Berlin, Leipzig and Moscow. From 2008–2017 he was dramaturg at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, working together with Frank Castorf, Vegard Vinge & Ida Müller and others. For the Volksbühne he also curated large-scale political and artistic events, such as “Africa Conference – 130 Years of the Berlinization of a Continent”. He initiated the series of talks about Europe’s future with Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. He also co-operated in founding the movement DiEM25. In 2006 and 2010 he was Artistic Director of the international festival Balaklava Odyssey that took place in former military compounds in Crimea. In 2007 he directed a documentary about the inhabitants of the closed military city Balaklava (Crimea). This was nominated for the Golden Key best film award at Dokfest Kassel. In 2018 he co-operation with Meng Jingui on the production “Teahouse” after Lao She, that premiered in Wuzhen, China. From 2014–2019 he has taught at the FU Berlin, University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Nanjing University, Oslo National Academy of the Fine Arts, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Segal Center, City University New York.
As of February 2019
Past Events
Palast der Republik
Day 3: New Alliances
with Boris Buden, Naika Foroutan, Srećko Horvat, Thomas Krüger, Lorenzo Marsili, Vijay Prashad, Bénédicte Savoy, Anna Stiede, Karen Taylor, Margarita Tsomou & Yanis Varoufakis
in the evening: “Musikpalast”with Astronautalis, Tyondai Braxton, Buke and Gase, Anna Calvi, Cantus Domus, Arone Dyer, Andi Haberl (The Notwist) & Kaj Duncan David, Anja Plaschg (Soap&Skin) & stargaze
Palast der Republik
Day 2: 1989/2019 - Come Together
with Boris Buden, Naika Foroutan, Bernd Gehrke, Alexander Giesche, Andrej Holm, Srećko Horvat, Anetta Kahane, Thomas Krüger, Bojana Kunst, Antonia Majaca, Irene Misselwitz, The Performance Bar, Vijay Prashad, Jörg Roesler, Andreas Siekmann, Jan Sowa, Gabriele Stötzer, Margarita Tsomou, Jeremy Wade, Anna Zett a.o.
in the evening: CHEAP
Palast der Republik
Day 1: Re-Vision
with Almuth Berger, Tatjana Böhm, Susan Buck-Morss, Boris Buden, Augusto Corrieri, Bernd Gehrke, Trajal Harrell, Max Hertzberg, Pan Daijing, Bénédicte Savoy, Bernhard Schlink, Technosekte + Henrike Naumann u.a.