Lutz Pickardt (b. 1965)

1987-93 Experiments and performances with several (street) theatre companies in Dortmund, training in afro dance (traditional) with Emmanuel Gommado (Ghana), Hampar Sarafian (Turkey) and others, drums and percussion with Ralph Kruse (D), performances as dancer and drummer in 'Schlachanfall'. Actor training, physical, motion and mask theatre with Harald Kleinecke, Tony Glaser, Prof. Heinz Schlage and others

1989 Journey to West Afrika (Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana)

since 1990 Collaboration with the "Spiel- und Theaterwerkstatt Villigst"

1991-93 AGS Villigst: basic training in "play and theatre pedagogy" 

1992 "The Mastery" - a workshop with Gay Baynes (Actors Institute London) in Hamburg --- Actor in 'Dreamdance Germany" with Rock Theatre Dejavue, on tour in East Germany

1992-94 „Kulturgut – Academy For Life Art“ (Gelsenkirchen): acting in theaterbrut, assistant of Harald Kleinecke (director) in Theater M., various productions, extended training in „acting - expression - communication“ with Felicitas Schlette and others

1993 Directing „The life on Rose - if angels could fly“, written and performed by Ingrid Saalfeld (Dortmund)

1994 Journey to Rishikesh (India) to study yoga and meditation --- art director of „Atlantis“ - an international youth theatre production with Polish, French and German paticipants in Lubmin (Greifswald), several performances in Germany und France

1995 "The Heroes Journey" with Jürgen Kugele in Michelstadt - a mytho-drama-ritual of Paul Rebillot 

1996 "Vision Quest" - with Pushican (Traditional Healer and Chief of the Comanches)

1996 bis 1999 Mobile youth work ("Streetwork") in Dortmund

1997-1999 Coordinating 'In the Shadow of the Pillory' - a cultural project for children about the middle ages - workshops throughout Germany

1996-2000 Training in theatre therapy with Gandalf Lipinski (physical theatre, ritual play), Zwaantje de Vries (Dansexpressie) and Doris Müller (role work, drama therapy) and others at the HIGW Hamburg

1998  Winner of the competition "Rent an artist" (Kultursekretariat NRW, Gütersloh) with the youth theatre and dance project  "Wild Love"

1998-2001 "Mask over Bosnia" - international mask workshop with young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks), the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in Walberberg and Königswinter (near Bonn)

1999 Actor in ‚Lysistrata’ by Aristophanes, performances in Bremen

2000 Diploma in education sciences (University of Dortmund) --- actor in WWW.Sturm-Warnung.de (directed by H.P.Krüger) in Bielefeld --- Workshop with Augusto Boal (Brazil) in Essen

2001 First international peace camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Campus 15 e.V. --- Workshop with Keith Johnstone (Canada) in Berlin --- educational trip to Salento (Italy)

2002 Winner of the competition "News For Youth" (Kultursekretariat Gütersloh) with the project "Saved" (inspired by the piece of Edward Bond)

2003 Study trip to Otranto (Italy/Puglia) ---  Actor in 'Forum' production 'Hamlet for Millions' (Christoph/Anselm von Castell/Paul Schlacke). Director: Hans-Peter Krüger.

2004-06 St. James Pilgrimage (Camino de Santiago) in France and Spain

2005 Workshop with Yoshi Oida (C.I.R.T. Paris <Peter Brook>)

2006 Foundation of Theater Dionysos, Seniors at Theater Marl --- Collaboration in the Artscenico-Project 'Strawberry-Fields' (Director: Rolf Dennemann, Choreography: Sabina Stücker)

2006-07 Teaching activities at Private University Monasz (Budapest, Hungary)

Since 2008 Training in voice work at 'Centre Artistique International Roy Hart', Malérargues, France (with Noah Pikes, Marie-Paule Marthe, Kevin Crwford a.o.)

2010 Teaching activities at Bundesverband Kulturelle Arbeit (Höchst i. Odenwald)

Since 1990 courses, projects and workshops with children, youth and adults, international and multicultural groups, since 1995 work with boys, since 1996 work in the fields of sexual pedagogy and education on the prevention of violence, advanced training with actors and theatre predagogues, teachers, educators, nurses, presbyterians etc., one-to-one sessions.

member of the 

German Association for Theatre Pedagogy (BuT)

+++ accredited as "Theaterpädagoge BuT" +++