Maria Huber
Maria (Mare) Huber is a freelance dramaturg, theatre scholar, theatre maker, as well as an audio and lighting designer. She works in international performance collectives and takes on artistic and technical leadership roles.
She studied Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen, spent part of her studies in the Erasmus Master’s programme “Devised Theatre,” and studied object theatre at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). She subsequently completed the Master’s programme “Play and Object” at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
Her work focuses on reflecting and rethinking collective structures, as well as on engaging with dramaturgy as a theoretical category within theatre studies.
Since October 2023, Maria Huber has been a research associate at the Contemporary Campus of the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts (HMDK), where she teaches and pursues her doctoral research. Her academic focus lies in praxeological and interdisciplinary theory-building, dramaturgy, decolonial theory, and disability studies.
She is currently pursuing a PhD on the historical development of mixed-abled collaborations in the performing arts in Germany.