Marianna Buchwald
Educator
Forest Park,IL
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Educator
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
- Contact Ellyzabeth Adler, Ceo and founder, ph.773 486-8261
- Educator with After School Enrichment Solutions, contact: Schuster ph.847 404- 4029
- Educator with Right at School Donita Allen ph.773 307-1026
Tour director
- Creates and gives tours to all constituents from different parts in the world. Develops comprehensive tours, accenting specific aspects of an industry.
- Guide for student tours working with Hemisphere for more than 10 years.
- Connecting individuals and groups with specific themed areas. (Gave tours to all industries: farmers, marathon runners, finance, students, architects. doctors etc.)
- Creates and gives highlight tours in Chicago and the Midwest of USA and over the road tours.( Escorted and interpreted for groups of farmers and dealers to John Deere plants.)
- Gives dine-outs to restaurants in Chicago.
- Provides hospitality and concierge services. (Escorted groups of doctors during conferences in Chicago to favorite restaurants.)
- Guide for international and national tours.(Developed and gave tours to groups from Chicago to Madison, Quad Cities, Waterloo, and Milwaukee, and in Germany: Hannover, Bremen, and Berlin.
- Assisted groups of architects, visiting the facilities of many important historic, modern and contemporary buildings in various cities of America and Germany.
- Translated scripts and literature for Global Destination Management companies for touring and new sight inspection purposes.
- Taught German to American business representatives of advertising agencies and managers of factories.
- Created and managed bilingual specialty tours.
- Directed bilingual spectacles and theater events for festivals.
- Registered Representative (1988-2013)
- Helped to develop tools for the NMSA (National Association for Middle Schools). Responsible for teaching and creating curricula for non- profit art organizations in Illinois.
- Taught German language courses to business associates,(Berlitz).
- Directed German language and theater classes for elementary and high school students, (Goethe Institute, Dank Haus CCS St. Mels, Chicago).
Educator
Self-Employed
01.1990 - Current
- Director InternationalArtAdventures.com (1990 - present).
- Taught in the After School Programs at CPS schools with Right At School since 2021.
- Taught Chess, Guitar, Drama and Art for After school Enrichment Solutions since 2018.
- Taught and directed German Theater classes at DANK Haus, 4740 N. Western, Chicago.
- Curated and developed International Art Exhibitions in Chicago and Germany.
Education
BFA - Painting, Sculpture, Performance
Art Institute
Chicago, Illinois01.1990
Studies in Theater, Mime and Dance
Folkwang Hochschule
Essen, Germany01.1980
Skills
Lesson planning
Classroom management
Group and individual instruction
Student relations
BIO
- Born in Goettingen, Germany, she grew up with her parents, artists Hella and Hans-Ulrich Buchwald, in Hannover. She studied art at the HBK in Hamburg, and theater at Folkwang Hochschule Essen, and she received her BFA at S.A.I.C., Chicago in 1990. She exhibited at Oliva Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Murphy Hill Gallery, and Peter Jones Gallery in Chicago, and at Gedok Hannover, and took part in many group shows in Hannover and Chicago, and organized International Art Symposia with German and US artists, dancers, and filmmakers since 1990, funded in part by the Goethe Institute, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Sister City Committee in Chicago.
- 2024, she presented the exhibitions and Symposium, “The Ocean Between VII, Islands of Life” in Hannover and “Rebellenwellen” at Kunstraum Reuter in Berlin, and continued her International Art exchanges featuring German and US artists supported by Oliva Gallery, in Chicago, and Bei Koc Gallery, and KrassUnartig Gallery in Hannover..
- 2025, she presented“The Ocean Between VIII,” Luminosity “ Art Symposium with art, music, dance and multimedia at Oliva Gallery, and at the Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, founded by Ellyzabeth Adler, who performed ” Healing Letters” 2021, as part of the Ocean Between III symposium in Hannover and in Berlin, where she met many of the German artists, who became part of the symposia 2021-2025.
- Ms. Buchwald also directed mask theater shows with masks created by Hans-Ulrich Buchwald, the creator of Schmierer Theater Hannover. She performed“ Luminous Creatures” during the events Aug. 1 and 2, 2025 with her cast of mask dancers Althea Teamer, Tim Smith,Juan Irizarry, Lissa Rommel and Patricia Nash at the Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, 1650 W. Foster, Chicago, 60640.
Timeline
Educator
Self-Employed
01.1990 - Current
Educator
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
Tour director
BFA - Painting, Sculpture, Performance
Art Institute
Studies in Theater, Mime and Dance
Folkwang Hochschule