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Faculty of Education/Human Sciences decided to honor Jonathan with Dr.phil.honoris causa

Kassel- 30-04-08, All pictures here.

Avia Appel, IPTN President

Gäste

Jo Salas, conducting

International Playback Group

This is also a great day for PB practitioners and friends all over the world. To be recognized by the Senate of the University of Kassel is an honor and act of recognition for Jonathan's vision and for the human values that are in the heart of the PB work.

This could not have happened without the hard work and dedication of Prof.Dr. Heinrich Dauber from the University of Kassel and may be this is also the place to thank him and all of you who believed and made this great thing happen.

With blessings to Jonathan and for the future of PB

Aviva Apel-Rosenthal

IPTN President

From the Centre of Playback Theatre

Jonathan Fox, the founder of the Centre for Playback Theatre and the founder of Playback Theatre itself, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Kassel, Germany. The doctorate recognizes Jonathan for "artistic and scholarly achievement in theatre."

The Education and Humanities faculty, representing education, philosophy, theology, psychoanalytic psychology, and music, were unanimous in this decision. The University of Kassel has awarded only four honorary doctorates in its history: this the first to an American, and the first that honors a recipient for both scholarly and artistic achievement. At the end of April there will be an award ceremony and a one-day academic conference at the University.

It is a wonderful and well-merited recognition, not just of Jonathan and his more than thirty years of extraordinary work, but also of Playback Theatre itself.

We can be proud of him, and of ourselves too.

From the Centre for Playback Theatre faculty, Board of Directors, and staff

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Der Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft/
Humanwissenschaften lädt ein zur

Verleihung

der

Ehrendoktorwürde

an

Jonathan Fox

Director

Centre for Playback Theatre

am 30. April 2008, 17.00 Uhr

Ort: Gießhaus, Universität Kassel,

Mönchebergstraße 5, Kassel

mit Einladung

Programm

Musikalische Eröffnung

Begrüßung: Prof. Dr. Paul-Gerhard Klumbies,

Dekan des FB 01

Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Dauber,

Vorsitzender der Promotionskommission

Musikalisches Zwischenspiel

Grußwort: Aviva Apel-Rosenthal, Tel Aviv,

Präsidentin des International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN)

Überreichung der Urkunde

Danksagung: Jonathan Fox

Musikalischer Ausklang

Empfang mit kleinem Buffet

Tagung 01. Mai 2008, 10-17 h

Conference 05-01-08, 10–17 h offen für Alle

Wo Geschichten sich begegnen /

Gathering voices

Programm

Eröffnung / Opening

Kurzauftritt / short performance:

Internationales Playbackteam / international pb-team)

Vorträge / lectures:

Playback-Theater und Psychoanalyse /

Playback Theatre and Psychoanalysis

(Prof. Dr. Ralf Zwiebel, Universität Kassel)

Playback-Theater – Die Perspektive der Bewusstseinsforschung / Playback Theatre – The Perspective of consciousness research

(Prof. Dr. Wilfried Belschner, Universität Oldenburg)

Diskussion / discussion

Kurzauftritt / short performance:

Internationales Playbackteam / international pb-team)

Mittagspause / lunch hour

Vorträge / lectures:

Playback-Theater und Kunst – Künstlerische Transformationen als Bedeutungsbildung / Playback Theatre and art – artistic transformations as meaning making

(Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Østern, University of Trondheim, NTNU, Norway)

Playback-Theater und Biografieforschung / Playback Theatre, life history and biographical research

(Daniel Feldhendler, Universität Frankfurt/M.; Université Paris XIII)

Kurzauftritt / short performance:

Internationales Playbackteam / international pb-team)

Pause / pause

Bericht aus der Arbeitsgruppe ‚Darstellendes Spiel / Szenisches Verstehen’ (Zentrum für Lehrerbildung der Universität Kassel) /

Report from the project group ‚drama education’ (Centre for Teacher Education, University of Kassel)

Berichte aus internationalen Netzwerken /

Reports from international networks

Abschluss / closing

Ort: Gießhaus, Universität Kassel,

Mönchebergstraße 5, Kassel