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She holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning and is an urban researcher and photographer. Fields of research: urban culture(s) and public space, urban memory, informal urbanism and collaborative urban practices. Member of the Institut dels Passats Presents (IPP) attached to Barcelona City Council for the memory of the city. Member of the Committee of Experts of the European Prize for Public European Space of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), the Deutscher Werkbund, the DASL (German Academy for Urban Planning and Regional Development) and the European Academy.

Director and author Helgard Haug works independently, as well as with Daniel Wetzel and Stefan Kaegi under the label Rimini Protokoll. Her internationally acclaimed works in theatre, radio drama, film and installations lie in the gray area between real life and fiction. Since 2000, Haug has been developing pieces for the stage, the urban realm and radio that open up new perspectives on our reality.

Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel were awarded the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis (dramatist award of Mülheim) for their piece Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Volume I. Rimini Protokoll has been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen three times (2004. 2006 amd 2013). The multiplayer video installation Situation Rooms from 2013 also received the Excellence Award of the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2003, the yearbook of the journal Theater heute («theatre today») named Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel the rising directors of the year. In 2007, they received the prestigious German theatre award «Der Faust». The following year, they were awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki, and in 2011, Rimini Protokoll’s complete works were awarded the Silver Lion at the 41st Theatre Biennale in Venice. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel have also received acclaim for their radio dramas on many occasions.

Helgard Haug and Rimini Protokoll are based at HAU, Berlin, since 2003.

With Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin he won the German prize «Theatertext als Hörspiel» by Berlin Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt, the Italian prize «Marisa Fabbri», both in 2009, and the French prize «Journée des Auteurs de Lyon» in 2012. With Come fu che in Italia scoppiò la rivoluzione ma nessuno se ne accorse he won the prize «Borrello alla nuova drammaturgia» in 2011. The first part of the «Diptych of Europe», Sweet Home Europa, was premiered in 2012 by the Schauspielhaus Bochum, and as a radio drama by the Deutschlandradio Kultur. In 2013 Carnevali was included among the 35 most representative authors of Berlin Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt, which commissioned the writing of the second part of the «Diptych», Goodbye Europa. Lost Words. In the same year he won the «Premio Riccione per il Teatro» (Italian National Prize for new drama) with Ritratto di donna araba che guarda il mare. In 2016 he received a Mention of Honor at the prize «Platea» for Menelao.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Theatre Theory at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, after a period of studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches Theatre Theory and Playwriting by the Theatre Academy Paolo Grassi in Milan and run workshops in different theatres and institutions. He’s member of the Dramaturgy Commission of the Catalonian National Theatre and advisor for IT Independent Theatre Festival in Milan; he is also member of the editorial board of the theatre magazines (Pausa.) and Estudis Escènics, and he writes for Italian and international journals about German and Ibero-american theatre. He’s also editor and translates from Catalan, French and Spanish. In 2017 he published the essay Forma dramática y representación del mundo en el teatro europeo contemporáneo for the Mexican publish house Paso de Gato and Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. His plays have been presented in various international seasons and festivals and have been translated into Catalan, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.