Dr. Michel Büch
Photo: Bert Brüggemann
Producer of the University Players
Address
Office
Office hours
by appointment
Contact
Key aspects of activity
- Theater and Performance Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Critiques of Modernity
- Epistemology
- Narratology
- Affect Theory
- Neuroscience
CV
Academic CV
Since 2023
Technical Director of the University Players and Research Associate, Universität Hamburg
2012-21
PhD, title of the thesis Whiteface: How racialized intuition, abjective play, and solipsist humor manifest in US improv comedy („summa cum laude“), Universität Bremen
2009-12
Master of Arts, Transnational literary science (major subjects: Theatre and Literature), Universität Bremen
2005-09
Bachelor of Arts, English-speaking Cultures / German Studies, Universität Bremen
Außerakademisch
2019-22
LURUM – Community School Lurup (Funded by: Lichtwark-Forum Lurup e.V.)
Organization and Management
Nomination for the Hamburger Stadtteilkulturpreis
2017-19
BIK CITY Impro, Bühne und Schule für improvisiertes Theater
Art Director, with Tobias Sailer, Bremen
Seit 2016
Press work and dramaturgy freies Theater, among others for Mbene Mwambene (Bern), Label Noir (Berlin), Jahrmarkttheater (LK Uelzen, Theaterpreis des Bundes), Charlotte Pfeifer, Anja Kerschkewicz and Patricia C. Mai (Hamburg)
2014-17
LICHTHOF Theater (Hamburg, winner of the Theaterpreis des Bundes)
Press work and publicity
2012
Theaterwerkstatt Schlachthof (Bremen)
Interim Director
2005-08
Bremer Tageszeitungen AG
Freelancer
Teaching
SS 2024
Classical mythology in contemporary US theater: materials, aesthetics, limitations
Guest speakers: Prof. Jaye A. Williams, Prof. Amy Muse, Mbene Mwambene
Seminar, Uni Hamburg
SS 2023
Drama, Performance, Criticism: English-language plays currently staged in Hamburg
Guest speakers: Jan Bosse, Falk Schreiber
Seminar, Universität Hamburg
SS 2014
Black Feminist Theories: On the Question of Gender
With Samira Spatzek, Follow up-Workshop of the MA-Seminar by Christina Sharpe
Seminar, Universität Bremen
SS 2012
Auf dem Spielplatz vergessen – das improvisierte Theater der Gegenwart
Seminar, Universität Bremen
SS 2010/11
Einführung in die Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft
Tutorial, Universität Bremen
Technical Director of the University Players
WS 2024/25 (up to the present)
SPECTERS: TRIFLES AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
by Susan Glaspell and Edward Albee
Regie: Charlie Bierend and Lydia Preusch (TRIFLES) and Felix Krebs (THE AMERICAN DREAM)
SS 2024
THE INHERITANCE GAME by Jenny Day, Director: Jenny Day
Seit WS 2023/24
UPLAY IMPROV
Introduction of a regular workshop for impro theatre
Support with the organization and development of Training Groups (such as SHINY THINGS)
Regular presentations of the Show AS YOU WANT IT (Directed by: Clara Kasten) at the Motte (Ottensen)
WS 2023/24
MACBETH by William Shakespeare, directed by: Jasper Koch
EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl, directed by: Henny Fleischmann & Charlie Bierend
SS 2023
EQUUS by Peter Shaffer, directed by: Henny Fleischmann
Cultural Management (selected projects of recent years)
2024
Fest im Nest (Dahlenburg, LK Lüneburg) | initiative-nester.de
Interdisciplinary cultural festival on the countryside
Project management
2023-24
Initiative Nester (Dahlenburg, LK Lüneburg) | initiative-nester.de
Lecture series on ecological and sociological sustainability
Member of the Project team, Public Relations
2021
The Whispers / Das Flüstern (Fair Theater, LK Uelzen)
Performance by Mbene Mwambene and Bharati Mayandi
Translation, dramaturgy
2020
Emmett, Tief in meinem Herzen
For Label Noir (Berlin)
Fundraising
2019 and 2018
Fliegende Funken – internationales Festival für improvisiertes Theater
With Tobias Sailer / BIK CITY Impro (Bremen)
Art Director, Fundraising, communications
Publications
Monograph
- WHITEFACE: Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness. De Gruyter, 2022.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “Democratic Rhetorics and Anti-Black Realities in US Improv Comedy.” Coup de Théâtre, no. 37, 2023.
- “‘A Good Story’: On Black Abjection in Improv Comedy.” COPAS, vol. 15, no. 1, 2014.
Translations
- Wynter, Sylvia. “Die Kolonialität von Sein/Macht/Wahrheit/Freiheit erschüttern: Eine Streitschrift über das Menschliche.” Translated by Michel Büch and Samira Spatzek. Lateinamerikanische Kulturtheorien, edited by Isabel Exner, Gudrun Rath, Konstanz UP, 2015, pp. 387-410.
Weitere Publikationen
- “‘Reassuring Sounds’: The Impossibility of White, Public Apology.” De Gruyter Conversations, De Gruyter, May 2022, blog.degruyter.com.
- “White Promise: Performance Artist Mbene Mwambene in Conversation.” With Mbene Mwambene. De Gruyter Conversations, De Gruyter, May 2022, blog.degruyter.com.
Scholarships
2021
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Grant to cover the printing costs for the publication of the PhD thesis
2013
Scholarship of the University of Bremen for young researchers
2009
DAAD-short term funding for an internship abroad (Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, NZ)