HAJO SCHÜLER & MICHAEL VOGEL
HAJO SCHÜLER & MICHAEL VOGEL
HAJO SCHÜLER (*1971, Hammelburg) is an actor and mask-maker. He studied pantomime and acting at Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and is a lecturer for movement and mask design at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
MICHAEL VOGEL (*1962, Naila) is a director and actor as well as a set designer and mask-maker. He also studied at Folkwang-Hochschule. As a director he has worked, for example, with the Bremer Shakespeare Company and the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He teaches at the University of the Arts and the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
Together they are the founders and artistic directors of the international theatre group FAMILIE FLÖZ, which has received numerous awards and is internationally known for its comedic, poetic, and almost always non-verbal theatre plays with masks. “The Familie Flöz always plays all evening under masks. As if they had foreseen how we now live” (quoted from DIE ZEIT, 8.7.2020). From 20 April on, we hope, they will perform their new production FESTE in the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. FESTE is a fairy tale for adults without words. A tragicomic story about the search for individual happiness …
MILA TESHAIEVA
(*1974, Kiev/Ucraine) 2010–2012 Master of Arts in Photography at the Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Art in Halle. 2013 Kehrer Verlag published her book PROMISING WATERS, followed in 2014-2015 by the eponymous solo exhibition in the Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA, in the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee/USA, and in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr. In 2015 and 2016, the catalogues of the exhibitions FACES AND STORIES OF ENTREPRENEURS and INSELWESEN were published. She has been a member of OSTKREUZ since 2016. In 2017 INSELWESEN was shown in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, and INSELALLTAG in the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin. For the series INSELWESEN she used the old technique of light painting, where her only source of light was a flashlight. In this way she has created Baroque-like, mystical portraits. In 2018/2019 the MIT Museum in Boston, USA, devoted a major show to her work under the title IMAGINED COMMUNITIES.