Diving into Math with Emmy Noether – USA TOUR 2023

A theatre performance by portraittheater Vienna

in co-operation with Freie Universitaet Berlin

Starring Anita Zieher
Director: Sandra Schueddekopf
Scientific board: Mechthild Koreuber (Freie Universität Berlin), David Rowe (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Authors: Sandra Schueddekopf, Anita Zieher; original quotes from Emmy Noether and contemporaries
Videos: Karl Boerner
Actors on screen: Alexander Fennon, Werner Landsgesell (Voice: Florian Troebinger), Karola Niederhuber (Voice: Anne Weyner), Helmut Schuster, Anita Zieher
Music: Rupert Derschmidt
Costume: Lejla Ganic
Translation: David Rowe
Voice Coach: Bronwynn Mertz-Penzinger
Photos: Helena Wimmer, Sandra Schueddekopf
Synchronisation videos: Rupert Derschmidt, Karl Boerner

Duration: 65 minutes
Language: English

Emmy Noether (1882-1935) was one of the most influential mathematicians of the last century. Her works and teachings left a lasting mark on modern algebra, opening new avenues for a modern structural perspective in mathematics. The ensemble portraittheater Vienna (Austria) together with the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) produced a biographical play about Emmy Noether, directed by Sandra Schueddekopf and starring Anita Zieher as Emmy.

Based on historical documents and events, the script was written by Sandra Schueddekopf and Anita Zieher in cooperation with the historians Mechthild Koreuber and David E. Rowe. It opened on June 4, 2019 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Afterwards the play has been performed with great success at several different universities throughout Germany and Austria as well as the Theater Drachengasse in Vienna under the title “Mathematische Spaziergänge mit Emmy Noether”. The english version is titled “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether”.

The play “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether” had a successful tour at 9 Universities and Colleges in the USA in September 2022. In September 2023 we are back on tour in 5 cities in the US!

Sept 13, 4:15 pm, Pitzer College, Claremont (California) – Event
George B. Benson Auditorium, 1050 N Mills Ave

Sept 20, 7 pm, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
MIT Little Kresge Theater, 48 Massachusetts Ave, 02139 Cambridge

Sept 22, 7 pm, Smith College, Northampton (Massachusetts)
Weinstein Auditorium, College Lane, 01063 Northampton

Sept 23, 9:45 pm, Smith College, Northampton (Massachusetts) – WiMIN Conference
Weinstein Auditorium, College Lane, 01063 Northampton

Sept 26, 7 pm, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minnesota) – Event
Coffman Theater at Coffman Memorial Union, Twin Cities (East Bank), 55455 Minneapolis

Sept 29, 7 pm, University of Chicago, Chicago (Illinois) – Event
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall, Kersten Physics Training Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave., 60637 Chicago,

More information about the play and the tour: www.portraittheater.net