ELENA RAQUET

is a puppeteer, actress and theatre pedagogue. She studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, but had previously gathered experience on the stage of Velvets Theater in Wiesbaden. Since then she has performed at different puppet and youth theatres, and as part of the Berlin independent theatre scene, she is co-founder of the transit-theater-berlin and founder of the theatre flausen bühne. Alongside acting and directing she works as a theatre pedagogue in schools and independent youth centres.

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STEPHANIE STEINKOPF

(*1978, Frankfurt/Oder) studied from 2001–2008 and received her Master’s degree in comparative music studies, modern history and Latin American studies at the Free University Berlin. 2009–2012 she studied photography at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin, 2013–2015 masterclass with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2014. She has won numerous awards: 2012 first place at the Vattenfall Photo Prize, and 2013 the young talent prize at GUTE AUSSICHTEN — JUNGE DEUTSCHE FOTOGRAFIE, 2013 the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), and 2015 the Lotto-Brandenburg Photography Art Prize. 2014/2015/2017 artist’s residence at the Goethe Institute in Helsinki and the Helsinki International Artist Program. Her works have been shown throughout Europe in group exhibitions, including in the C/O Berlin, in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, and in the House of Photography, Hamburg. In 2019 she was awarded the working scholarship of the Hans und Charlotte Krull Stiftung.