Hundert Pro Festival Vol. 7

Choreography & Performance: Katze Greeven
Singing, Composition & Performance: Cordula Heins
Horn, Composition & Performance: Karin Knobloch
Costumes, Flags & Stage: Staeff Günther
Flag-waving training: Laurenz Greeven
Dramaturgy: Judith Strodtkötter
Choreographic Outside Eye: Neus Ledesma Vidal
Critical Observation: Yvonne Sembene
Production Manager: Anne Storm
Video: Todor Joe Musev & Melanie Hauffe

Thanks to: The Montag Foundation for Art and Society, the Mönchengladbach Cultural Office, the St. Johannes Shooting Club Grietherbusch, the St. Sebastianus Shooting Club Korschenbroich, Andreas Lörcks & Frauks Schussmann

Co-production: Schwankhalle. Supported by the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Sparkasse Bremen and the Neustadt Local Council.

Performer and choreographer Katze Greeven (she/none) grew up in Grietherbusch in the Lower Rhine region. In her work, she explores the complexity and ambivalence of
traditions, their entrenchment in power structures, and the relationship between urban and rural spaces – often with a penchant for the absurd. Her focus is on: The body and its stories as a site of vulnerability and change. After completing a Master’s in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg, she finished her foundation course in dance at bewegungs-art in Freiburg. Katze has been working with the performance collective b/w*itch since 2019, with whom she is currently developing the piece “It Ends With Death – a death ballet” in co-production with Schwankhalle (premiere March 2026). Since receiving her “übenübenüben3” scholarship from the Montag Foundation for Art and Society in
Mönchengladbach-Rheydt (2025), Katze has been investigating “flag-waving as a cultural practice”.

Cordula Heins (vocals, composition, performance) is a creator, singer, producer and performer. Having grown up in a village in Westphalia, she now looks back with mixed feelings on her childhood spent between marksmen's festivals, equestrian hall parties and her search for allies. Since 2019, she has been the singer and writer for the band project Laturb. The lyrics and short performative interludes decisively dissect the absurdities and contradictions we inevitably find ourselves in within a capitalist society;
sometimes humorous, serious or tragic, sometimes brutally direct or subtle and personal. Vocally, she moves across genres somewhere between pop and punk, with a love of riffs, opera and spoken word.
https://laturb.com/

Karin Knobloch (horn, composition & performance) is a versatile musician who, as a horn player and music teacher, is usually on the road playing the horn, but who also frequently
turns to her voice or the flute as a means of musical expression. Sometimes she can be heard as a traditional orchestral musician, sometimes in various chamber music ensembles, sometimes at festivals or in independent theatre projects. She studied the horn at music colleges in Rostock, Detmold and Lübeck. Alongside her artistic work and teaching, as a true country girl with a tractor licence, she loves spending her time on her parents’ farm in the Lüneburg Heath with her cattle, horses and much more.

Staeff Günther (costumes & set design) is a theatre maker and self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Berlin. Her work focuses on puppet and object theatre, sound design,
writing, and the development of participatory theatre formats. Since 2021, she has been developing theatre and radio plays in various collaborations. Staeff studied Scenic Research at Ruhr University Bochum and has been deepening her interest and knowledge in the field of puppet and object theatre since 2022. Her musical upbringing included playing in the
Gerlenhofen Youth Wind Orchestra. At the annual village festivals, she took on the odd shift at the beer tent and had plenty of time there – at the tender age of 15 – to reflect on
the strange rituals of masculinity.

Judith Strodtkötter studied cultural studies in Leipzig and dramaturgy in Frankfurt am Main. Since then, she has worked primarily in Bremen and Lower Saxony as a dramaturg,
production manager and yoga teacher. From 2020 to 2022, as a permanent member of the Schwankhalle team, she curated the venue’s programme together with the artistic director, Florian Ackermann. She then worked freelance, primarily with TanzkollektivBremen and the Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften. She is also a lecturer at the HKS Ottersberg in the Dance and Social Theatre programme and has mentored various artistic processes.
Since 2021, she has been involved as a cultural worker in rural areas with the Förderunion für Kunst und Kultur e.V.: a platform for cultural exchange that connects supposedly urban themes and aesthetics with the local context and expands them to include regional perspectives, always in dialogue with the local community. Since June 2025, she has been working part-time for the Landesverband Soziokultur Niedersachsen as a consultant for socio-cultural associations and initiatives.
http://tanzkollektivbremen.de/
www.foerderunionkunstkultur.de

Neus Ledesma Vidal (choreographic outside eye) is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. Born in Barcelona but having lived in Bremen for many years, she studied at the
London Contemporary Dance School. She currently combines her work as a dancer for Birgit Freitag and Pretty Playful Productions with the production and creation of her own
choreographic pieces. She has been part of TanzKollektivBremen since summer 2022. She is interested in the body as a means of expression and as a medium for telling stories, stirring thoughts and evoking emotions. She sees collaboration as a working method from the very beginning of every artistic process, and biography and feminism are often at the heart of her projects. In 2021, she created ‘rebonico’, an etude and homage to the folk dance of her hometown, Sant Mateu (Spain). The piece analyses this enduring tradition and its
rituals in order to abstract and understand the essence, so that these traditions may continue to be celebrated.
https://www.neusledesma.eu/

Yvonne Sembene (Critical Observer) The French-Senegalese-GDR choreographer Yvonne Sembene focuses in her work on the influences of colonialism on culture, primarily in Germany and Europe. Her work centres on Afro-German FLINTA* perspectives on neotraditionalism and neoclassicism. In the 2025/26 season, Yvonne will be “Director in Residence” at the Paris Opera.
https://yvonnesembene.com/ABOUT-ME

Creation and Performance: Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald

Video editing: Julia Cohen Ribeiro

Sound Design: Nancla

Lighting design: Catalina Fernandez, Lou Oelrich

Video material from: Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Pablo Werner Pacheco, Klaus Renkin and Ralph Werner

Dramaturgy support: Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero, hn lyonga, iki yos peña narváez

Project created in the frame of the Master’s program MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) at HZT Berlin, a partner of the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK).

Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald (1992) is a multidisciplinary performance artist, activist and cultural worker of Kpelle (Liberian*) and Irish-American descent. She’s doing artistic and political work internationally on the topics of feminism, anticolonialism, and Blackness, working as both a solo performance artist and as part of the afrofeminist arts collective, Kukily. She has trained in Afro-diasporic, West African and Contemporary dance techniques.

She has studied Cultural Anthropology & Dance at Bates College, Lewiston, ME, United States and Territory-based Artistic Practices  at Argentina National University of the Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2025, she received a MA degree with distinction in Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) from Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. 

Her solo-performance I want revenge, grandma has received support from Fulbright USA and Universität der Künste Germany. It has been shown at Performance Arcade Festival, Wellington, New Zealand Feb 2026, Tanztage Festival Sophiensæle, Berlin, Germany Jan 2026, House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin Germany Jan 2025 and Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany Nov 2024. Founding member of the transnational Kukily Arts Collective, doing interdisciplinary artistic work since 2016. 

Concept, performance: Nóra Varga Vermes

Sound, music: Franz Schrörs

Internal and external perspective: Eva Mario Hasler

External perspective, mechanisms: Jo Posenenske

Supervision: Orsolya Fodor

Mentor: Florian Feisel

Nóra Varga Vermes (Performer) completed her degree in stage design in 2020. During her studies and in the year that followed, she worked as a freelance artist in various artistic contexts as a stage designer, director and animator. Since 2021, Nóra has been studying puppetry in Stuttgart and has also been involved in collective productions as a performer and as an outside eye. In 2023, she presented her first solo piece, entitled “fish-i”, at the Fitz Theater animierte Formen in Stuttgart and at the Westflügel in Leipzig. In 2024, she worked as an outside eye on the final projects “Zimmer|Rooms” by Jo Posenenske and “Big Show” by Eva Mario Hasler. Nóra will complete her puppetry studies in Stuttgart in 2025 with her solo piece ESCAPE and is simultaneously involved in various puppetry and experimental collaborations. Since the summer of 2023, Nóra has been part of the Bauzug community with her collective “Babak”.

Franz Schrörs (Music, Sound)
Franz Schrörs (born in Wuppertal in 1987) works across theatre, sound art and digital media. His focus lies on human absence, invented truths and sound animation.
As part of the Schroffke! puppet theatre collective, he explores theatrical means using textiles and music. With the finest and the frankest (with Josephine Hochbruck), he develops audio plays and interactive audio installations. Before studying puppet theatre in Stuttgart, Franz wrote fairy tales and dialogues for computer games.
Today he works as an artist, dramaturg and musician in Leipzig and beyond.

Eva Mario Hasler (Outside View, Technician) was born in Hamburg in 1996, temporarily studied performing arts in Hildesheim, lived in Basel, and then moved to Stuttgart to study puppetry at the HMDK (Ba24), where Eva has lived and worked ever since. Eva works with collectives and as a solo artist in the local independent scene, performs own productions, is part of the Raumstation-Residenzwaggon team, works for the Fitz-Theater, DJs, curates and organises their own events.

Jo Posenenske (Outyside Eye)
Jo Posenenske (born 1996 in Frankfurt am Main) studied theatre studies in Leipzig. As outside observer, artistic collaborator and assistant, Jo has worked with Wilde & Vogel, Lehmann and Wenzel, Anna Schimkat and Franziska Merkel. Since 2022, Jo has been part of the Schroffke! collective, which made its debut with UNDIN. In 2023, Jo presented the object theatre solo A regular arrangement based on Gertrude Stein. This was followed in 2024 by Zimmer | Rooms. An Everyday State of Emergency, commissioned by the Saxony Cultural Foundation. Jo lives in Leipzig and, in addition to puppet theatre, works as a materials consultant, sailing instructor and knot specialist.

Orsolya Fodor (Supervision) is a freelance theatre practitioner who works on various collaborative projects as a puppetry director, dramaturg, lecturer and performer. Her focus lies on the sacredness of spaces. Recently, she has been exploring autobiographical theatre, site-specific performances and the philosophy of puppetry. Her current piece, Johanna – a lecture-vision performance – is staged in an empty swimming pool and explores her own religious prejudices and vulnerability.

“Living the Schatz Life” is a production by Schatz&Schatz GbR.

Concept: Fine Kroke, Alexandra Entenmann

Performance: Fine Kroke, Alexandra Entenmann

Direction: Fine Kroke, Alexandra Entenmann

Before Alexandra Entenmann (keine) joined the Folkwang University of the Arts in 2022 to study physical theatre, she lived and worked in Cologne as a circus trainer and performer. She appeared on stage with, among others, IMPROZirkus at ZAK in 2020 and with the nologo collective as part of the Circus Dance Festival in 2021. During her studies, Alexandra took part in various productions, including as a dancer in project x by Tabea Jung (Rundgang 2024) and as a performer in Artist Diploma sur l’écran noir de mes nuits blanches by Juliette Roussennac (Pina Bausch Theater 2023) and in her self-developed solo piece Bob, ein Held (2023).

Fine Kroke (keine) is a physical theatre performer, actress and dancer who grew up in Mainz. Since childhood, she has been on stage or in front of the camera in drama and
dance clubs for young people, in film productions (including Girl Cave by Funk) and in improv theatre groups. While studying Physical Theatre at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Fine contributed to the development of several productions, including Synthopia – eine Verdauung (2022), culo.synechdoche of my butt (2023), and İsmi lazım değil (2023).
She has also developed her own solo works. Since 2024, Fine has been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Some of the projects in which Fine has participated have already been staged or realised at venues including the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the detect festival, the 15-Minuten-Festival in Cologne and in collaboration with the Elbphilharmonie.

Nathan William Stearns is an American actor, dancer, performance- and physical theatre artist. Raised partially in the United States as well as in Germany, he is known for various independent film and stage productions. He currently studies Physical Theatre at Folkwang University of the Arts and works as a freelance artist. 

Growing up in a Turkish migrant worker family near Stuttgart, Alper Adem Yilmaz found his way into the arts through his school’s musical and drama clubs. He is now studying physical theatre at the Folkwang University of the Arts, which has had a profound influence on his understanding of the body, presence and performance. At the same time, this intensive theatre work has shown him how important film is as an accessible medium. Partly because of his background and career path, he is aware that cultural institutions can often be elitist. In front of the camera, Alper Adem is drawn to the opportunity to translate his artistic experiences into a clear, direct and emotional style of acting, driven by the joy of performance that stems from theatre.

Naledi Majola is a South African performer and maker based in Berlin. After completing a BA in Theatre and Performance specialising in Acting at the University of Cape Town (2014-2017), they worked as an actor, participating in various film, television, theatre, and commercial projects. In parallel, they developed a performance and research practice, encompassing media like movement, voice, sound design, and writing.

After working in Cape Town for some years, Naledi moved to Berlin and completed the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT Berlin in 2024. Their work seeks to blur the line between theory and practice and is inspired by performance studies, pop culture, and South African history and art.

Naledi was an artist-in-residence at ada studios Berlin and Köttinspektionen Dans in Uppsala in 2024 and is a recipient of the Scholarship for Dance Praxis from the Berlin Cultural Senate for 2024-2025.

Grouping and Ungrouping Forever is an artistic partnership between Naledi and South African maker, Andi Colombo formed in 2019. Their primary interest is in interdisciplinary explorations of performance-making methodologies.

Choreographer & Performer: Seung Hwan Lee

Photo: Günter Krämer

Venue: Theater Felina Mannheim

Seung Hwan Lee is a choreographer and performer working between stage, body, and moving image. His practice asks how instinct, identity, and silence survive inside constructed systems. He also builds digital tools for artists — web applications and performance software developed at the intersection of art and technology. 

Concept, Artistic Direction, Performance, Production: Marco Merenda

Performance, Co-Creation: Ludovica Bove

Dramaturgy: Margherita Scalise

Sound: Candid Rütter

Light Design: Leonie Taber

Costume Design: Steve Oelmann

Props and Spacing: Florin Iki

Co-produced by Kampnagel Hamburg. Funded by: Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, Zeit Stiftung Bucerius, Bezirksamt Hamburg-Nord. 

Marco Merenda (he/they) is a German-Italian performance artist specialising in direction, dramaturgy, performance and physical theatre. Marco’s work bridges the gap between autobiographical experience and collective context. Through a queer, in-your-face aesthetic, they aim to destabilise heteronormative and patriarchal structures in order to create space for new forms of reflection. Training in acting at the Accademia del Teatro Oscar (Milan), training in directing at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi (Milan) and an intensive Viewpoints workshop with Ellen Lauren (SITI Company) are among Marco’s most significant artistic experiences. In 2017, they completed a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Pavia and, in February 2022, a Master’s degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. Marcos’ productions have been staged at numerous theatres and festivals throughout Germany and internationally, including: Kampnagel, Hamburger Sprechwerk, Lichthof Theater, MS Stubnitz, Fleetstreet Theater, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, MAI (Montréal, art interculturels), Ecosistem Festival (Bucharest), Kulturfactory (Naples) and the Torino Fringe Festival. Marco’s performances have been supported by, among others, the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Hamburg-Mitte District Office, the Claussen-Simon Foundation, the ZEIT Bucerius Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and Creative Europe. In 2024–25, he was a fellow of the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung as part of the programme StART.up.
www.marcomerenda.net

Ludovica Bove was born in Rome in 1993. She lives and works in Rome as a freelance actress and singer. After graduating from the Alta Formazione Officina Pasolini (2017) she began her research into contemporary poetry and, in 2019, took part in the project “L'Ora dell'Alt” in residence at ARTA (Association de Recherche des Traditions de l'Acteur) at the Cartoucherie in Paris. In 2021, she founded the collective Alta Gola with musician Lorenzo Bove and writer Sacha Piersanti. Together they developed the project “Fonti” – a sound journey blending recital and live electronics, combining classical Latin and Greek epics, contemporary poetry and electronic music. In 2022, she took part in television and film productions such as Cattleya, Vivo Film, Filmauro and Wildside, which enabled her to collaborate with Italian and international directors such as Carlo Verdone, Andrea Molaioli and Niclas Bendixen.

Margherita Scalise is a theatre maker and dramaturg from Italy. She currently lives in Brussels and works across Belgium, Italy and other European countries. Her wide-ranging interest in the performing arts initially led her to study directing, and later to specialize in dramaturgy. Margherita works as a freelance dramaturg and collaborates with various artists and choreographers. In 2023, she curated a week-long introduction to performance dramaturgy in Bucharest. From 2019 to 2024, she worked as resident dramaturg and artistic assistant for the dance company Ultima Vez and its founder, Wim Vandekeybus. Margherita is particularly fascinated by the artistic practices of others – this curiosity has led her to encounters with, amongst others, Guy Cools, Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley, Katalin Trenscényi, Maja Hriešik, Merel Heering, Élise Simonet, Danae Theodoridou, Gabriele Vacis, Giovanni Covini and Davide Carnevali. As an artist, she is interested in the connection between movement and text. Her current thematic focus includes sensory experience, theologies, languages and art histories.
www.margheritascalise.com

Candid Rütter is a sound artist and multimedia composer. His musical works usually span multiple media and operate at the intersection of music, theatre and performance. His compositional approach is strongly influenced by the practices and aesthetics of club culture. For example, working with associative sounds and references to create semi-fictional worlds is a central aspect of his compositions. In his work, he explores the conditions of life within an ever-expanding, opaque, technological reality. In addition to his own projects, Candid regularly composes music for theatre productions, is part of the theatre collective INFRAROT, and curates for the music label CRTTR, which specialises in releasing experimental club music. His artistic career has been shaped by his studies in Sound Arts at the HKB Bern and his current Master’s degree in Multimedia Composition at the HFMT Hamburg.
www.candidruetter.net