Christoph Baumann

Christoph is a German actor, theatre director, and teacher based since 1984 in Ecuador. His theatre works made him travel through almost all countries of Latinamerica as well as Mexico, attending festivals and directing plays. His works as an actor in film and the internet opened his career to a vast audience in the Spanish-speaking world.
After workshops in the Theatre Lab of Jerzy Grotowski en Wroclaw/Polonia he studied in the Jacques Lecóq School for mime, movement and theatre in Paris and attended during 3 years workshops with teachers of the Lee Strasberg School of Acting in different cities in Europe. He studied Tai Chi (Yang style) with Ana Triebel in Berlin/Germany. Up to 1984, he worked in Berlin in different independent theatre groups. In “Voice and Movement”, a group directed by the Russian composer Vladimir Rodzianko, he worked on a combination of extended range vocal expression, based on the training of south African actor and vocalist Roy Hart, and selected dance and mime movements. Another group was the today still existing “Berliner Companie”, a very successful touring political theatre network. Since then Christoph has a special emphasis in the political impact of theatre artworks.
From 1988 to 1992 he was Director of the German-Ecuadorian cultural centre “Asociación Humboldt”, now Goethe Institute, in Quito. He organized more than 800 national and international cultural events. From 1986 to nowadays he directed and acted in more than 40 stage plays. From 1981 to 2017 he acted in a big variety of films for cinema, television and internet, produced in Italy, Germany, Hungary, Argentina, Ecuador and Colombia. In 2011 he carried out together with his wife, the Ecuadorian actress Tamara Navas, the project ¨Theatre on Wheels”, meetings with imagination – creative journeys with a theatre truck, named “The eternal invisible”, visiting 50 cities and towns of Ecuador. Christoph is a researcher of creative processes in individuals and groups and of different paths of non-directive (self-taught) learning. In Durgas Tiger School his teachings put emphasis on theatre as a playground to act out the deeper emotional sources of our creative being, using a great variety of techniques from improvisational theatre, dynamics from Gestalt therapy, clowning, working with masks, scene work, and others.