Esther Kaufmann
– writer, consultant, creative mind!
With my creative work, I want to create a change in people, give them food for thought and tell stories that make people curious and leave them in a different state of mind.
I love most to let my creativity run free together with interesting collaborators and to be free to dive into different topics, characters and worlds with each new project. Eyes wide open I marvel at all the topics moving me and the world around me, I dive head first into research and play with the magic of words.
I love innovative formats and literature projects! At the poetry impro slam “Happy things / Glückliche Gegenstände“ by the Writers Room HH I won the competition.
I am teaching creative writing and theatre mainly for kids and teens and develop stories with them, f.e. for the classroom novel / Schulhausroman by the Literaturhaus Hamburg.
“Mein Feld ist die Welt – Ballin, der Reeder des Kaisers“ is a historical theatre project that debuted site-specific in the BallinStadt museum. I wrote the play and was general project manager.
At the Academy for Childrens Media / Akademie für Kindermedien I developed my animation series “Bubbly Brains“, which was represented by Gotham Group L.A. As an agency and in 2019 nominated for Germanys Next Animation Talent.
At the Lichthof Theatre I developed the play “Lovegames – Verkehrsberuhigte Zonen“ together with non-professional actors. It is about couples therapy and crazy constellations of relationships.
For the PC game “Horse Club“ based of the toy world of Schleich I was writing dialogues as well as developing the story arc with Wild River Games.
With director Steffen Schmidt I wrote the scripts for part 2 and 3 of the children short series “With Bobby by my side / Mit Bobby an meiner Seite“, which was shown on TV on NRWision.
I am working with my co-writer Fred Schuld on the animation feature “Alias Secret“ (production company: Fabian und Fred) for which we got developmental funding by the MOIN film fund.
In December 2024 my next Wilhelmsburger Wintermärchen kids theatre show will debut. With my artist collective THEATERBOX we have been creating kids theatre shows for 15 years now and this time are writing a play for elementary school kids concerning the human body.
I am very happy to be a part of the new network “Bühnenmütter / stage mums” and I am responsible for taking care of Northern Germany as well as curating some workshop concepts. We are networking as female theatre colleagues with kids to advocate change in the social and professional structures for theatre workers.
The audiowalk app “Storydive” invited me for one day to consult for their cooperation with Glagow based XR theatre collective “Produced Moon” and creatively brainstorm together concerning audiowalks,target audience and manyy more hot topics.