Street Theatre Jury

Iris Daßler is the artistic director of the Just for Fun Street Theatre Festival Darmstadt, which will take place for the thirtieth time in 2023, and of Varieté Extra, which combines contemporary circus and street theatre in one show format. She is the managing director of the Theater Moller Haus in Darmstadt, venue of the Freie Szene Darmstadt e.V. Trained as a systemic consultant (Praxis Institut Hanau) and career counsellor according to the Zurich-Mainzer model (Institut für Laufbahnberatung Frankfurt), she works as a consultant for artists.
Iris Daßler is a member of the Bundesverband Theater im öffentlichen Raum (Federal Association of Theatre in Public Space) and BUZZ - Bundesverband Zeitgenössischer Zirkus e.V. (Federal Association of Contemporary Circus).

Graduated with a bachelor's degree in tourism in 2017 at the HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre, Thomas Houle has worked for numerous cultural and sports events for several years (Festi'Neuch, Plage des Six Pompes, Trotteuse-Tissot, Festi'Sports, La Fête de Swiss Dance, Eurogym, etc.). Thomas Houle created the Six Pompes Summer Tour and developed the project (summertour.ch). This project takes place in more than 20 different cities of Switzerland with 120 performances played by 35 compagnies all over the summer (for the 5th edition in 2022). Since 2018, he has been the coordinator of the Swiss Federation for Art in Public Space (federation-arts-rue.ch). 

Born in 1961 as a cheerful Rhinelander, later on a foiled civil engineering student (“The theatre was more important”). After playing various roles with more or less success on the OFF theatre scene of the 80s, came the move into event technology. Founder of artec Bühnentechnik GmbH in 1992, which today plays a leading role in event technology in Germany in the fields of technical services, stands, special constructions, stage construction and tricky assignments. Since 1993 technical director of the Schrittmacher dance festival, where he has responsibility for over 80 international dance companies. Since 2006 technical director at the IKF. Since then a great fan of street theatre, variety show and performing arts. Co-developer of the IKF street theatre stage to its dimensions today with over 20 productions a year.

Studied Education, Cultural Sciences and Cultural Management. In the 1990s assistant director at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, freelance work for the Department of Arts and Culture in Esslingen. From1998 to 2011, Susanne Göhner worked for the Burghof Lörrach GmbH: as second managing director she was responsible for programme planning and for the organization and running of the STIMMEN-Festival for many years. Subsequently, management and head of communications for a multidisciplinary festival in Switzerland. From the 31st edition: Project manager of the Internationale Kulturbörse Freiburg.