ResearchProjects
Current Researchproject:
R-ITT Research project for 2025 with call for practitioners to participate
“WOW-Moments in drama therapy practice”
The first presentation of the research project took place on November 11, 2022 at this year’s WFKT conference “Evidence of Art – Art of Evidence” as a poster presentation: download poster here.
Current doctoral students in the field of drama therapy & therapeutic theater/performance:
- Simone Klees, Lehrbeauftragte HfWU Nürtingen:
Grounded theory study / “How do patients/clients of an inpatient, general psychiatric theater therapy group experience theater therapy play situations?” - Ilil Land-Boss, Lehrende ITT:
Liminal and ritual spaces in participatory performance – The use of embodied ritual structures and principles and therapeutic elements to create transitional and liminal experience
Weitere Infos: http://doctorartium.kug.ac.at/deutsch/projekte.html
Further research Projects
Strong children- mastering challenges through play
This title refers to a resilience project using drama therapy supported by the Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation (former HARIBO co-owner) in cooperation with the DGfT, the HKT Nürtingen and the Alanus University in Alfter.
The flood events in July 2021 in the districts around the Ahr valley (Ahrweiler / Euskirchen) provided the reason for this project. The Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation, based in Bonn, is located in the middle of this area.
The task is to develop a concept based on drama therapy to strengthen the resilience of children, which can then be put into practice in daycare centers and elementary school. The focus should not be on the event itself, but on individual situations and coping strategies.
Johannes Junker (Chair of Drama Therapy HKT Nürtingen) will provide scientific support for the project.
Documentation and evaluation will be carried out by Alanus University in Alfter.
Further information on the project can be found on the DGfT website here
Poster Research Project ‘“Strong children”: Drama therapy to build resilience in children after the Ahr Valley flood disaster’
(In German, there is currently no English version available)
#DIGIARTHE – Digitalization in art therapy
#DIGIARTHE opens up a forum for the necessary, critical examination of the digitalization of artistic therapies, bringing together interested parties from various areas of artistic therapies, from research and practice. With two participatory formats – the forum and the barcamp – the #DIGIARTHE team would like to explore this question together.
Further information on the project
De-constructing the past – Constructing the future
A drama-therapeutic and trauma-sensitive research project on collective identity formation through the mediation of stories and images about the Holocaust among young people of different origins in Berlin.
Further information about the project
CREATE
Creativity an mental health
Artistic therapies in the context of flight & migration in Europe
From 2016 – 2018, a team from the Institute for Drama Therapy (ITT) of the DGfT participated in the Erasmus+ KA2 project “CREATE”. Here, seven organizations from Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany worked on the development of method collections and training modules for the use of artistic therapies in working with refugees and migrants.
Documentation of the results
The results of the CREATE working group are presented under the link: https://create-eu.com
You can find practical and experience reports from the individual groups, as well as recommendations for working with refugees and migrants, at the link: https://createeu.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/io4-create-toolkit_de.pdf
Sabine Hayduk (from page 44) and Patric Tavanti (from page 64) write for the ITT team.
You can find further information at http://www.create-project.eu
My Safe Place – a drama therapy project for refugee children and young people
In May 2016, a team of drama therapists launched a daram therapy program at the Mertensstraße emergency shelter in Berlin-Spandau for children who were unable to attend school or participate in group activities at the shelter due to their experiences as refugees and the trauma they had suffered. The primary goal was to stabilize the children and create the conditions necessary for them to integrate into supervised groups and school classes. Since no money was made available for this work by the Senate, only a voluntary expense allowance could be paid. In May 2017, the Robert Bosch Foundation committed to funding the project for a period of one year.
From October 2012 to August 2013, Lizzie McAdam from New York University conducted research at ITT on drama therapy approaches in working with traumatized individuals as part of a research fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation.
In February 2013, a research trip was made to Israel, including a visit to the Community Stress Prevention Centre (www.icspc.org) in Kyriat Schmona on the Golan Heights, which was founded 20 years ago by the internationally renowned drama therapist and trauma expert Mooli Lahad. The aim of the research trip was to develop opportunities for intercultural cooperation in this field.
On the banality of evil – A performance project in prison
With the project “The Banality of Evil,” those responsible ventured into uncharted territory in the field of prison theater in Germany in April 2011. For the first time, inmates, i.e., violent offenders, appeared on stage together with women, most of whom were victims of violence, and young people.
A production by Fabian Chyle in cooperation with the Institute for Dramatherapy, the Ludwigsburg Dance and Theater Workshop, and the Hohenasperg Social Therapy Institution.
Ritual and Body Memory – The Archetpyes of Healing
The theater research project Ritual and Body Memory was conducted by Ingrid Lutz and presented at the conference Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Rituals at Heidelberg University (2008) and at the conference Knowledge through Performance of the North American Theater Therapy Association (2013).
„Jackie B. – A life of extremes“
Theater Oberhausen 2012
Regie: Heike Scharpff
zur Projektbeschreibung (pdf-Datei)
e/m/o Processing®
is an anti-violence training program developed by Fabian Chyle and Ingrid Lutz that uses movement and theater therapy methods.
An evaluation of this method from 2009 can be found here .
Penelope, Kassandra, Medusa & Co – A drama therapy performance project
on the topic of “abuse.” A report on this project has been published in: D. Müller-Weith et al: Theatertherapie – Ein Handbuch, Paderborn 2002