Backgrounds

Since 2016, the platform tanzschreiber has been enriching the dance scene in Berlin and Germany with its texts, reviews and critiques. Its goal is to make dance accessible to both professional and non-professional audiences alike. Together with Tanzbüro Berlin, the initiator of the online medium, we have selected two journalists for the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2026 who will share their perspectives on the selected productions in German and English articles: Thaddäus Maria Jungmann and Veronica Posth will also be accompanying the Tanzplattform 2026 outside of the official programme and sharing their impressions daily here and on tanzschreiber.de.

Thaddäus Maria Jungmann

Thaddäus Maria Jungmann studied scenic arts in Hildesheim and musical theatre in Osnabrück. Thaddäus lives as a freelance performer and dramaturge in Cologne, where Thaddäus is currently working on their master's thesis in M.A. Dance Studies with artistic audio description. Their own works combine minimalist conceptual art and movement and are characterised by subtle humour and tender provocation. Thaddäus also works as a freelance journalist for tanz and Theater der Zeit.

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Veronica Posth

Veronica Posth is a Berlin-based dance and arts writer with over ten years of experience in international cultural journalism. Her work has appeared in Fjord Review, Dance International, TANZweb, Tanz, Tanec Polska, SeeingDance, and Dance ICONS where she has contributed in-depth interviews, features and reviews. With a background in dance and a strong interest in cultural policy and critical theory, Veronica Posth brings an embodied, contextual, and accessible voice to dance criticism.

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Funding

tanzschreiber is a module of "Empowering Dance", a project of Tanzbüro Berlin, supported by Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e. V. and is funded for the years 2023-2026 by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.