Participants
Zoltán Imre
Gabriella Schuller
The lead researcher of the project, she is a museologist at the Artpool Art Research Centre – Museum of Fine Arts. She received her PhD from the University of Pécs in 2005, her dissertation dealt with the history of feminist theatre companies and theoretical issues of feminist performances. An extended version of the dissertation was published in 2006 under the title Tükör-kép-rombolók [Mirror-Image-Destroyers] (Pannon University Publishing House). Among other things, her courses dealt with the counterculture and experimental theatre experiments of the Kádár era. Since 2016, she has been an archivist and researcher at the Artpool Art Research Centre – Museum of Fine Arts, currently working on the history and chronology of Hungarian actions, happenings and performances between 1966 and 1989. He is a member of the NEP4Dissent research group, funded by the EU COST fund, and of the MTA Committee for Theatre and Film Studies. Previously, she was involved in the Philther. The canon of the last decades of Hungarian theatre history. During the research period, she organizes the conference, conducts video interviews, collects metadata of documents on the period in question and prepares studies on it.
Orsolya Ring
She is a member of the research team, an assistant professor at the Institute of History, ELTE and a research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences. She obtained her PhD in 2011 at the ELTE Doctoral School of History. His research interests include theatre history of the Kádár-era, with a special focus on theatre management, the history of the National Theatre, the Katona József Theatre and the Orfeo Ensemble. She has published numerous studies on the history of theatre in the period and was also the historian-expert for the documentary film about the Orfeo Ensemble. She worked as an archivist between 2000 and 2017, and her archival research has resulted in several volumes of documents, such as Top Secret: Documents on the History of the National Theatre in the Kádár Era (co-editor, 2010); Top Secret: Documents on the History of the Theatre Management in the Kádár Era (co-editor, 2018).
Panka Sándor
She is a research participant, a student of the Master’s programme in Theatre Studies at ELTE. Her research interests include theatre practice as a research for communal past, collective memory and documentary theatre.
Balázs Kalmár
He is a research participant. He is a student at the ELTE Doctoral School of Literary Studies. His research area is the relationship between political power and theatre in the productions of József Ruszt in the 1960s.
László Dinea
He is an artist who nowadays mostly works on his childhood passion, programming. He also works for alternative theatres as an animator and video maker. He is responsible for the design and the maintenance of the homepage, and for the editing of the video-interviews.
Kornélia Deres
Between 2021 and 2023, she was a member of the research team, and a Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University. She received her PhD in 2015 from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies of ELTE. Between 2015-2018 she was an Assistant Professor at Károli University. In 2020 she was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at the Institute of Media Culture and Theatre of the University of Cologne, in 2021 she received the Junior Core Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study of Central European University, and in 2021 she was awarded the Bolyai Research Fellowship by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She participated in several international collaborations: “In-Between Theater and Media” Research Group (Ruhr-Universtät Bochum, 2014), “Materiality of Performance” Research Workshop (Universität zu Köln, 2018-20), “Shakespeare in Central Europe after 1989” Research Group (PPKE – Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, 2018-21), “Community and Remembrance in Central European Theatre” educational collaboration (ELTE – Universität Wien, 2019-20), “Crossing Borders with Shakespeare since 1945” Research Group (Masaryk University, Brno, 2022-23). Her research articles were published by the Theater Research International, New Theater Quarterly, Global Performance Studies, and Theatralia. She is author of two monographs: Hammer for images: Theatre, technology, intermediality (JAK-Prae, 2016, Hun); Informer Romeo, Leaked Yorick: Documentary Theatre, Reenactment and the Opening of Archives (Kronosz, 2022, Hun). She is co-editor of five volumes and founding editor of theatre studies book series “Színtext”. Regarding the research project, she was responsible for collecting the metadata of documents, conducting video interviews, and preparing articles.
Boglárka Hidi
Between 2022 and 2023, she was a research participant, research assistant. She is a student of Theatre Studies (MA) at ELTE. Her research interests are posthumanism and the emergence of anthropocene thinking in theatre practices.
Sára Ungvári
Between 2021 and 2023, she was a member of the research team, and an MA student at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University. She is currently working as a teacher of Hungarian literature and language as well as drama. Her research interests are drama and theatre as social intervention, political and pedagogical phenomena. During the research project, she was working as the student assistant of Kornélia Deres.
Veronika Darida
Between 2021 and 2022, she was a research participant, Associate Professor at the ELTE Institute for Art Theory and Media Research, Head of the Department of Aesthetics. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Université Paris 12-Val de Marne and ELTE in 2007, in Literature from Université Paris 10-Nanterre and ELTE co-tutelle in 2008, and her habilitation in 2013. She has been a lecturer at the CIPh (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris), Universität Wien, a member of the Scientific Committee on Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a member of the ASPLF (Association de la Societé de la Philosophie Française) and the SFE (Société Française d’Esthétique), of the research groups CréArt (Université Paris 10) and French Relations (Péter Pázmány University, Université Paris 8). She is the author of seven books in Hungarian and two in French, and has published numerous studies. Her research interests are in the field of European and Hungarian theatre practices and their philosophical and aesthetic implications. She has previously participated in the OTKA research project “Aesthetic, historical and cultural concepts of the experience of space in the 20th century”. Her most important theatre books are Artistic Experiences (2009), Theatre Utopias (2010), András Jeles and the Theatre of Disaster (2014), Divergent Scenes – The Theatre of József Nagy (2017), The Puppet Theatre of Philosophers (2020). At the time of research, she was researching the Pince Színház [Vault Theatre].
Dorottya Mátravölgyi
Between 2021 and 2022, she was a research assistant. She is a student at the ELTE Doctoral School of Literary Studies. Her research areas are the intermedial practices and immersive theatre.