FELIZITAS STILLEKE
dramaturge - curator - dream activist - writer-radio maker
My focus is on feminist aesthetics and collective knowledge. Across dramaturgy, performance, radio and research my practice develops political futures beyond fixed forms.
For over fifteen years I am working as a dramaturge for theatre, dance and performance. I develop festivals, series or conferences. I am fascinated by formats that open up, shift perspectives and raise questions collectively. Cities, stages, Parties or gatherings function as laboratories and resonance spaces for me.
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Born in 1983 and raised in the Ruhr region, I grew up in a setting of profound structural transformation, and an early sense that the future is something one actively makes.
My work moves between dramaturgy, research and multimedia practice. Between performance, academia and deep hanging sessions. Between mind and body, analysis and intuition.
Where does collective knowledge accumulate? How can discourses be intuitively overwritten? When do intersectional feminist aesthetics become effective?
Since 2020, I have been working extensively with radio and podcasts. In autofictional sessions, I address topics such as divorce, non-/maybe-motherhood, my father’s dementia or sibling dynamics. To give voice to the in-between, the unfinished, the contradictory.
Currently, I am working on oracles and collective dream work that spin futures from intuition, memory and radical imagination. I am not searching for ready-made answers. My practice connects critical analysis with artistic experimentation, political sharpness with sensuous experience, research with performative implementation.
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EU-Mobility Grant CULTURE MOVES EUROPE, 2025 (Slovenia)
Travel Grant by Ben J. Riepe Kompanie 2025 to Maha Kumbh Mela, India
Berlin GLOBAL + Travel Grant Goethe Institute 2023 (Bolivia/Brasil)
Art Residency at ELIAS 2069, Slovenia
Take Heart Scholarship 2021 + 2022 Neustart Kultur vom Fonds DaKü
Scholarship 2022 Neustart Kultur by vg Wort
Scholarship 2020 by Berliner Senat
BangaloREsidency 2017 Goethe Institute Bangalore / India
International Forum 2016, Theatertreffen Berlin
Scholarship Leipziger Hörspielsommer, 2014
Stipendium Schillertage, Mannheim, 2011
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Kulturaustauschstipendium GLOBAL des Landes Berlin, Jury, 2025
Koproduktionen 2026 LOFFT Leipzig, Künstlerischer Beirat 2025
bestoffstyria/Newsoffstyria, Jury, Graz 2014, 2015, 2017 + 2023
FONDS Darstellende Künste, Boardmember 2016-2022
Sechs Tage Frei, Jury, Stuttgart 2021/2022
Kunststiftung NRW, Artistic Advisory Board 2019-2021
Hauptsache Frei, Jury, Hamburg 2017
Globalize Cologne, Jury, Köln 2016
NRW Theatertreffen, Jury, Theater Dortmund 2014
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2008-10 MASTER OF ARTS in Cultural Poetics
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster [1,4]
2003-07 BACHELOR OF ARTS in German Literature and Education
Ruhr-Universität Bochum [1,4]
FURTHERMORE
Yoga Teacher Training at Three Boons Yoga Berlin 180hrs, 2025
Retreat Facilitation for Tara Retreats since 2024
Practitioner of SOI School of Images since 2021
Volunteer at Women’s crisis hotline Berlin since 2021
Expended Curation at DAS theatre in Amsterdam 2018/19
Dramaturgical Advisor for SPIELART 2019
Member of ProQuote Bühne since 2018
Advisor for ALLIANZEN by Elisa Liepsch/Julian Warner 2018
Member + Assessor of DIE VIELEN/THE MANY since 2018
Production Assistent Berlinale Talents 2020 + 2015, Berlin
Production Assistent George Tabori Preis 2015, HAU Berlin
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