Christine Henniger

Christine Henniger is Head of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at the International Theatre Institute Germany. She coordinates the ITI’s Research Area Cultural Heritage of the Performing Arts / Archive and Practice, which focuses on the theoretical and practical interconnections of the performing arts within archival processes, including issues of international and transnational reference within the heritage discussion, digitization and preservation, canonization and curation, and practice-based research and mediation processes. Current projects include: Concept Phase TanzArchiv Berlin, tanz:digital, DFG Project Interlinking Media Libraries of the Performing arts, zwischen__räumen// między __miescami. She participates in the Round Table of Berlin Theater Archives, Initiative for the Archives of the Independent Performing Arts, Association of German Dance Archives, ThesiD, and others. She is a member of the board of ENICPA, European Network of the Information Centres for the Performing Arts.