F. Wiesel

Since the 2023/24 season, Duo F. Wiesel explores digital narrative and theater forms as artists-in-residence at the Schauspielhaus KONSOLE. They explore the possibilities of virtual spaces and experiment with narrative styles, technologies and stage formats. In open experiments and performances, F. Wiesel share their research with the audience inviting them to play and think together. They curate the festival DIGITHALIA - Festival for Virtual Theater Forms Graz, bringing together regional, international and Schauspielhaus productions.  

Behind the label F. Wiesel are Hanke Wilsmann and Jost von Harleßem. In 2011, they have been developing plays, performances and installations. Both studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. They live in Graz and Frankfurt am Main.
Their production teams include experts from the fields of puppetry, robotics, video and VR design. F. Wiesel combine found and made-up narratives to create their own innovative theater texts. Often using science fiction elements, they explore current and future social challenges. What will future communities talk about? How do robots share thoughts? Can entire planets have intelligence? What kind of future did past generations imagine? Together with unconventional protagonists, beings and spaces, they develop idiosyncratic visual worlds and narrative machines.

In 2017, their production "SUPERQUADRA" was shortlisted for the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen and awarded the Ponto Performance Prize by the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2023, their production "LUXEMBURG" was nominated for best stage design in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater-Heute. Their theater shows have been presented at Mousonturm Frankfurt, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Kaserne Basel, Theater Heidelberg and Theater Chur, among others.  

Jost von Harleßem (*1987) works as a freelance stage, lighting and video designer for theater productions in Basel, Berlin and Vienna. He develops special technical solutions for live performances and researches virtual formats. He has a long-standing collaboration with the group FUX and the choreographer Kiriakos Hadjiioannou.  

Hanke Wilsmann (*1987) worked on theater productions in Germany and abroad as a technician, set designer and documentary photographer. From 2018-2023 she was the co-head of the production house Frankfurt LAB in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2022, she has been conducting research in the Arctic to explore artistic strategies for translating the climate catastrophe. 

Further information at: www.flinkwiesel.de