Katja Schneider
Prof. Dr. Katja Schneider teaches dance studies at HfMDK Frankfurt. She received her PhD for an interdisciplinary thesis on play wright Christian Krüger in 1996 and habilitated in 2013 with her work Tanz und Text. Figurationen von Sprache und Bewegung at the department for theatre studies at LMU Munich at which she also was affiliated as research assistant. From 1992 to 2012 she worked as a critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as reporting for Deutschlandfunk radio. She was also editor at the journals tanzdrama, tanzjournal and tanz between 1992 and 2012, and has been working as a dramaturg for the Munich DANCE festival. She is a founding member of tanznetz.de, Access to Dance and Fokus Tanz/Tanz und Schule.
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