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                             MAHN-frehd SHEH-veh

Manfred Schewe is Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (UCC). He completed a teacher training course (German, English, History, Educational and Social Sciences) at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in 1981. As a DAAD-/Temporary Full-Time Lecturer he spent five inspiring years in the Department of German at UCC (1982-1987). He then returned to Germany to complete a Drama and Theatre Training course and also his influential PhD research project Fremdsprache inszenieren (1993). In 1994 he took up a permanent position in German at UCC where he paved the way for the SCENARIO PROJECT (https://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/), consisting of an online journal, a book series and Scenario Forum, an international network of researchers and practitioners. He served as Head of German from 2005 to 2014, and as Head of Theatre from 2016 to 2018. He retired in 2019, but continues to engage in research, give lectures and lead workshops for institutions and associations in different parts of the world. For more detailed information regarding his research and professional activities click on the relevant links in the navigation pane.   

My research continues to focus on innovative connections between the performing arts and education. 

While my academic home discipline is German Studies/German as a Foreign language, I have always had a keen interest in building bridges to other disciplines, especially Drama Pedagogy, Theaterpädagogik, Drama and Theatre Studies, Literature Studies, Intercultural Studies, Education, Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. Given my special interest in aspects of German/Austrian/Swiss Drama and Theatre of the 20th and 21st centuries I have over the years collaborated with UCC's Drama and Theatre Studies department and its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Performance Practices (CIR). From 2005 - 2010 I coordinated the Applied Pathway of the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies. Similarly, given my special interest in aspects of foreign language teaching and learning, I was involved in the MA Programme in Applied Linguistics (from 2001 - 2005 Director of the Board of Linguistics).  I paved the way for  UCC’s first Online Journal SCENARIO, a bilingual, peer-reviewed journal with a special focus on performative teaching, learning, research. Since its launch in 2007 I have co-edited the journal with Susanne Even (Indiana University). In 2012 a new SCENARIO Book Series was launched which aims at promoting intercultural dialogue in the area of drama and theatre pedagogy. The first bilingual (German-English) book in this series, co-authored by Stephen Boyd and Manfred Schewe, is entitled World Theatre: translation, adaptation, production – Welttheater: übersetzen, adaptieren, inszenieren and complements the performance project Cork’s World Theatre (for YouTube film click here). A further extension of the SCENARIO project is the the SCENARIO ARCHIVE and  SCENARIO FORUM which hosts international symposia and conferences. For a short film on the 2017 conference which marked '10 Years SCENARIO' click here. For further details, including the more recent SCENARIO CORRESPONDENTS INITIATIVE through which people from around the world report on the state of performative teaching, learning, and research in their respective countries, go to the SCENARIO PROJECT homepage.   

 Specific research interests include: 

• Culturally specific concepts in the area of theatre and education 
• The Theory and Practice of Performative Teaching, Learning and Research
• Community Theatre in different parts of the world / 'World Theatre'
• Literary and Cultural Analysis - Literature and Performance 

RESEARCH-related activities

My research-related activities aim at paving the way for a new, performative teaching and learning culture. Over the years I have been invited to contribute to numerous conferences (for details click on Professional Activities in navigation pane and go to Conference contributions). I have also led numerous seminars, workshops as well as extensive in-service courses for professional associations and institutions in different parts of the world. These include:

THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS 

          Germany:

• Universität Tübingen
• Universität Hamburg (Zentrales Fremdspracheninstitut) 
• Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung; Zentrum für Pädagogische Berufspraxis; Oldenburger Fortbildungszentrum; IBKM) 
• Universität Jena 
• Universität Hannover
• Universität Dresden 
• Universität Kassel 
• Universität Potsdam
• Universität der Künste, Berlin 
• Hochschule Konstanz
• Universität Leipzig
• University of Paderborn
• University of Rostock
• Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Universität Bonn
• Universität Würzburg
• Seminar für Waldorfpädagogik, Berlin
  
  Austria: 

• Universität Wien
• Universität Graz
• Pädagogische Hochschule Wien
• Katholische Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems
• Theaterpädagogisches Zentrum, Brixen
  
  Croatia:

• University of Zagreb
• University of Zadar
  
  France:

•  University of Bordeaux
• University of Grenoble
  
  Greece: 

• Aristoteles University Thessaloniki
  
  India:

• Jindal Global University
  
  Iran: 

• Allameh Tabataba'i University, Teheran

• Iranzamin International School, Teheran
  
  Italy: 

• University of Bologna
• University of Florence
• University of Bologna-Forli
• University of Padua                   
  
  Spain: 

• Barcelona (Catalan Ministry of Education) 
• University of Valencia
  
  Great Britain: 

• University of Durham/GB 
• University of London, King’s College 
• University of Central England, Birmingham 
• University of Essex
  
  United States: 

• University of Indiana, Bloomington
• University of Missouri 
• University of St. Louis
• New York University / Campus Berlin
• Middlebury College/Vermont
  
  Canada: 
  
• University of Waterloo 
  
  New Zealand:
• University of Christchurch
  
  Mexico:
• UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  
  Ukraine:
• Taras Sevchenko National University Kiev

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: 

• Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) 
• German Studies Association Ireland (GSAI) 
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF) 
• Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache (FaDaF) 
• FAGE / APEG (Germanists' Associations of Spain and Portugal) 
• AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) 
• IDEA (International Drama and Education Association) 
• EUROPEARLL (European Association for Performing Arts in Language Education) 
• Österreichischer Bundesverband für Schul/Jugend/Amateurtheater
  
  GOETHE INSTITUTES: 

• Bremen 
• Göttingen 
• Schwäbisch Hall 
• Frankfurt 
• Düsseldorf 
• Munich 
• Berlin 
• Amsterdam
• Athens 
• Thessaloniki 
• Budapest 
• Lisbon 
• Brussels 
• Dublin 
• Manchester 
• Lille 
• Ljubljana 
• Milan 
• Trieste 
• Montreal 
• Ottawa 
• Toronto 
• Chicago 
• Boston 
• St. Louis 
• Houston
• Kiev 
• Nairobi 
• Bangalore
• Mexico City
• Zadar
  
  AUSTRIA INSTITUTES

• Vienna
• Bratislava
• London (OeAD)
  
  GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE / DEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER AUSTAUSCHDIENST

•  DAAD Paris
•  DAAD London
•  DAAD Bonn
  
  AUSTRIAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE (OeAD: Österreichischer Akademischer Austauschdienst)

• London
  
  FOUNDATIONS: 

• India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) 
• Robert Bosch-Foundation
  
  THEATRES: I have led a number of seminars with with a specific focus on theatre-based language teaching at (or in association with) the following theatres: 

• Weimar: Nationaltheater Weimar 
• Berlin: Berliner Ensemble, Schiller-Theater, Berlin, Gorki Theater, Grips Theater, Deutsches Theater, Volksbühne
• Hanover: Staatstheater - Schauspiel Hannover
• Cork: Granary Theatre            

Miladinovic Dragan, Doctoral Degree - Co-Supervised

TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS / AWARDS

• 1981, German State Exam: completion of teacher training course at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg [equivalent of 4 year B.A. course plus 2 year M.Ed. course]
• 1989, completion of Spielleiterausbildung (three semester training course in drama and theatre pedagogy) at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• since 1989 numerous in-service courses at institutions in Germany, Ireland and Great Britain
• 2002: UCC President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning
• 2002: UCC President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning
• 2013/14: UCC Teaching Fellowship Award (College of Art, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences)