JOHANNA LEMKE

(*1982, Berlin) is a dancer and choreographer. She stands up for better working conditions for (freelance) dancers with children, and not only since Corona-related home schooling has brought a further challenge for mothers and fathers.

She trained in Berlin and Amsterdam and has worked, e.g., with Falk Richter, Martin Stiefermann, Boris Charmatz, and since 2008 above all with Constanza Macras at the Schaubühne. She creates her own works, such as FAINT (2008), UNTERSTROM (2010) and KAISER WILHELM IM EXIL (2012), BERT DEIN SCHUH IST AUF UND WIE TANZT JETZT EIGENTLICH EIN KAMEL (2017), GÖTTLICHKEIT TRIFFT PUNK, a dance lecture on the topic of mothers in art (2019), HELLO KEVIN (2020), LABOR MFL (2020). In 2019 she founded the artists’ collective TeamVolume, which has been supported since 2020 by the Fond Darstellender Künste and DokArt. Confronted with the deficiency of children-friendly structures at the theatres, she explores in her works the seemingly secondary and yet charged topic of motherhood. Since 2020 she has received support in the form of a residence at the ada-Studio in Berlin-Lichtenberg, which is offered specifically to female artists with children.

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ANNE SCHÖNHARTING

(*1973, Meißen) studied photo design from 1995–1998 at the Lette Verein Berlin. 1997 Kodak Young Talent Prize. Member of OSTKREUZ since 1999 and in its management since 2019. Awarded in 2005/2007 with the media prize of the Kindernothilfe Foundation, 2006/2007 the Hansel Mieth Prize, and 2006 and 2016 the VG Photo Art Scholarship. 2007 lectureship in photography at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weissensee. She has exhibited in group exhibitions, including MUSLIMISCHE FRAUEN IN DEUTSCHLAND, Goethe Institute Washington D.C., and 2011 WO WIRTSCHAFT SPIELT, Stilwerk, Hamburg. She is a member of the ART DIRECTORS CLUB FÜR DEUTSCHLAND and teaches, since 2020, as guest professor at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. On 1 October 2020 her book DAS ERBE was published by Hartmann Books, which deals with the reappraisal and examination of the family inheritance from the colonial past of her great-grandfather.