Prof. Ulrich Maiwald

2010 – 2016 // Private acting lessons and speech training with Thomas Braus, artistic director and actor at the Wuppertal municipal theatre as well as lecturer at the Cologne University of Music

2015/16 // Further training and introduction to the methodology of speech training according to Schlaffhorst and Andersen with Dagmar Boecker, Cologne

2013/14 // Advanced study in speech training with the Cologne radio announcer and certified speech trainer DGSS Joachim Aich

2006 // Recognition as theatre educator BUT

2005 // Academic degree as Graduate Speech Artist/Actor

1996 – 1997 // Private training in mask performance and Commedia dell‘ Arte with Gian Andrea Scarello, director and founder of Teatro d´arte scarello in Mainz

1995 – 1997 // Private acting lessons with Birgit Lang, acting lecturer at the Cologne University of Music

1988 – 1992 // Alanus University Alfter, studies in speech formation and acting

1986 – 1990 // Acting lessons with Ferdinand Böcking in the Working Group for Language and Dramatic Performance

Since 2012 // Professor of Language and Performative Art at Alanus University in the Faculty of Educational Sciences

Since 2015 // Theatre education work with children at the Klingenmuseum Solingen

1992 – 2017 // Regular teaching and consulting work in schools and kindergartens on body language, vocal expression, and language support

2009 – 2011 // Theatre education work with young people at Theodor-Heuss Hauptschule in Hilden as part of “Kultur und Schule NRW”

2007 – 2011 // Founding and direction of the independent theatre ensemble “Spielwut”

2007 – 2009 // Seminar offerings in the field of language and leadership as part of the Summer University in Paderborn

2003 – 2011 // Regular visiting lecturer at Alanus University

Since 2000 // Individual training in body language and vocal expression for employees in companies

1997 – 1999 // Acting work in Teatro d’arte scarello, touring theatre in Mainz

1995 – 1999 // Regular visiting lecturer in the Department of Speech Formation and Acting at Alanus University

Since 1992 // Artistic courses and lectures at various teacher-parent conferences of the Association of Independent Waldorf Schools, including in Greifswald, Flensburg, Dresden, and Dortmund

1992 – 2017 // Freie Waldorfschule Haan-Gruiten, teacher of language support, speech education, and theatre education

1992 – 2017 // Numerous performances as a reciter and actor with his own staged programs and artistic projects

Many years of board work in the professional association for speech formation and acting BVSS

Students with a special educational focus on language. In: Buchka, M. and Brockmann, M. (eds.): Students with Special Educational Needs in the Classroom. Kohlhammer. Stuttgart, 2024.

From Impression to Expression, Methodological Approaches to Artistic Speech in Upper Secondary School. In: Speckenbach, S. and Hans, U. (eds.): Learning to Speak Well! Language Education in Waldorf Schools. Educational Research Center of the Association of Independent Waldorf Schools. Stuttgart, 2023.

Subject contribution on the topic “Fairy Tales and Disability: Children’s Fates in the Fairy Tale Collection of the Brothers Grimm.” In: “Menschen”, Journal for Living, Learning and Working Together. Issue 5, 2022.

I speak, therefore I am – Language and Personality Development in the Educational Context. In: Greubel, S. and Schieren, J. (eds.): Children, Children! Perspectives on Child Development, Support and Educational Attitude. Beltz. Weinheim Basel, 2019.

A Happy Event. In: Fritsche, A. and Lischewski, A. & Voigt, U. (eds.): Comenius Yearbook, Volume 26/2018. Academia Verlag. Baden-Baden, 2019

Speech Education Work at Waldorf Schools – A Methodological-Didactic Sketch. In: Online supplement to Richter, Tobias (ed.): Educational Mission and Learning Objectives – From the Waldorf School Curriculum, Stuttgart, 2016

Secondary School Students Become Heroes, In: Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben Stuttgart, July 2012

In the House of Temperaments, In: Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, July 2011

Dialogues: Theatre Education Work on Dialogues, In: Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, February 2009

Improvisation as a School Subject, In: Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, June 2008

Fencing as a School Subject, In: Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, May 2008 

Special issue on the topic of language – speaking – shaping language: Stumbling Blocks and Trials by Fire, Speech Training in Upper Secondary School, Special issue of Erziehungskunst, Monthly Journal on Rudolf Steiner Education, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, 2007 

Since 1998 // Own artistic programs and acting performances at various cultural venues in Germany.

Productions including

“Abandoned on the Mountains of the Heart”, a staged collage on the life of R. M. Rilke

“Between Crying and Laughter” or “The Memoirs of a Moon Sheep Breeder”, staged collage with music about Christian Morgenstern

“The Stranger Is Myself” by Fernando Pessoa: theatre and music collage under the direction of the Iranian composer Pervez Mirza

“Tino Flautino”, recitation as part of a concert under the direction of flautist Maurice Steeger
Readings and recitations, including at the International Storytelling Festival Mettmann, 2008

“Look It Up in Gernhardt”, cheerful reading with music

“Through a Mirror in a Dark Word” by Jostein Gaarder, reading with music

“Stories of God and the World” – texts by Rafik Schami, Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Gernhardt

“Odd Birds”, ballads and short stories from 3 centuriesYears of work as an actor in the touring theatre teatro d’arte scarello in Mainz with performances in Germany and abroad, most recently with Ernst Stankowsky

Many years of work as an actor in the independent ensemble Wuppertal in various theatre productions as Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen), Autolycus (The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare), Edmund (King Lear by William Shakespeare), David Warren (Busybody by Jack Popplewell), among others

Recitation accompaniment of eurythmy performances in Germany and Switzerland

Since 1992 //  Directing and realization of more than 100 theatre projects with children, young people and adults as well as performative actions with students and young people in public space

Various theatre projects and staged readings with students of childhood education at Alanus University in Alfter near Bonn