Britta Wilmsmeier arbeitet seit 2010 als professionelle Geschichtenerzählerin in Deutschland und international. In ihren Performances und ihrer angewandten Erzählarbeit erforscht sie verschiedene Formate des Geschichtenerzählens und verwendet dabei traditionelle und biografische Geschichten und Literatur
Britta Wilmsmeier works as a professional storyteller since 2010 in Germany and internationally. She explores variations of storytelling formats in her performances and applied storytelling work, using traditional and biographical stories and literature.
Applied Storytelling
Worte mit Flügeln Words with Wings (2023) Heb Beraber – All Together Multilingual storytelling & training for equal intercultural encounters, Berlin – Hamburg – Istanbul – Mersin, DINX, Merkator Stiftung (2020-2022) Erzählen bildet Sprache Storytelling Creates Language (since 2017) Erzählkunst in der Schule + Märchen machen Schule Storytelling project in schools (since 2016) Erzählkunst für Willkommensklassen Storytelling with refugees (since 2016)
Other Formats & Projects
BjS – Berlins junge Storyteller Berlin’s young storyteller (2023), Erzählkunst TV Digital Storytelling (2020) Unbox Schöningen: When Teenagers Tell about the Future… (2019) Storytelling as a Democratic Art (since 2018) DSDSS – Deutschland sucht den Super Storyteller – Germany’s next Top Storyteller Berlin (2018 / 2019 / 2022) Berlin, City of Hope Storytelling workshop with refugees aged 18-30 (2017) Im Auge des Sturms: Storytelling in Areas of Crisis Conference in cooperation with Tellers without Border Berlin (2016 & 2022 Wien) Gespür für Geschichten Goethe Institute, St. Petersburg & Novosibirsk (2014)
Storytelling Performance Premieres (a selection)
for children & families : Melodie des Baums (2021) Jamamba (2021) Alte Bärte abschneiden (2020) Karakus (2019) Fee Bonbona (2018) Prinzessin Glücklos (2017) Wintermärchen aus aller Welt Liebenberger WM (2012)
Storytelling theater for 14+: Käthe 35 – Biographie eines Berliner Hauses (2019/2022) 100 years of (his)stories of a house and its residents Vogelfrei (2018) Storytelling theater with refugees The Old Man and the Sea (2017)
Storytelling Festivals
Chennai Storytelling Festival (2023) International Storytelling Festival Nürnberg (2022) Berliner Märchentage (since 2010) Erzählfestival Remscheid (2021) Berliner Zimmer – Storytelling in Berlin’s Living Rooms (2019/2020) Erzählfestival WortWelten (2019) Havelländische Musikfestspiele (2018)
Teaching Experiences
Freie Universität Berlin Storytellling and Multilinguality in Schools (since 2019) Brandeis University, Boston, USA Storytelling with Refugees (2019) APAC France Storytelling in the Here and Now, Paris, France (2018) FEST (Federation for Europeans Storytelling) Storytelling in „International Language“ (2017)
Articles a.o.
Die Magie des Mehrsprachigen Erzählens (2021) Grenzgängerin (2019) Urban Storytelling (2018) Was ist ein guter König (2017)
Organisations
Tellers without Borders, 1st chairwoman since 2020 / Erzählkunst e.V. board member 2017-2022
Education & Training
Stereotypes and Discrimination in Storytelling / Intersektionalität / Giving Voice: Teatro Due Mondi, Faenza, Italy Storytelling School Jana Raile, Germany / Arts in Education, Arts Council, London / Universität Leipzig& Leicester University, UK: German and Englisch Literature and Cultural Studies: Magister Artium
