Source: Thalia Theatre
Claudia Lehmann holds a doctorate in elementary particle physics and is a filmmaker and video artist. Her film works range from short films, documentaries and feature films to music and art videos, installations and performances. She won the Shocking Short Award 2006 with her film “Memoryeffekt” and her self-produced documentary “Hans im Glück” was invited to the Berlinale in 2009. In 2012, she realised the July Zeh adaptation “Schilf” with X-Filme Creative Pool. She has also been designing and realising video stage sets for the theatre for almost 20 years, in particular for Nicolas Stemann, such as for “Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns” (Thalia Theater Hamburg/Schauspiel Köln, 2009), “Faust I+II” (Salzburg Festival, 2011) and “Die Schutzbefohlenen” (Theater der Welt/Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2014). During her many years of collaboration, she has also developed her live video performances and has been involved in various productions. From 2018 to 2020, she was a visiting professor for digital media at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art, and in 2019 she was appointed to the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Together with Konrad Hempel, she founded the “Institute for Experimental Affairs IXA” in 2014, which launches and realises projects of scientific and philosophical origin with a growing network, such as the documentary essay “The Symphony of Uncertainty” in collaboration with the Hamburg production company Tamtam Film. Claudia Lehmann also plays and sings with the Berlin band “Hands up – Excitement!” and together with Konrad Hempel in the ensemble “Elementarstrategien”.
