The versatile and interested Ching-Tien Lin / Nickname: Anzu was born in Taiwan in 1987.  His excellent grades enabled him to go to a school specialized on Visual Arts for particularly talented children and later to complete a bachelor's degree in Drama at the renowned Taiwan National University of the Arts. With the aim of learning the German art of acting, he first went to Berlin, whereupon, after a number of detours, he moved his center of life to Leipzig in 2018 and started in the following year a master’s degree in elementary music and dance education at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” which he completed in 2021.

His aesthetic sensibility and his diverse ways of rethinking performance make him a sought-after initiator and advisor for contemporary performances. He focusses particularly on the playful transformation between reality and creativity. He is particularly interested in perceiving, leading, staging and representing this transformation as a process and thus questioning and considering human existence. He perceives borders as leeway.

In recent years he has been able to build an excellent reputation as Creation Consultants (artistic production consultant) in his home country Taiwan, and is one of the most sought-after of his kind in Taiwan today. His two last works with the choreographer Lin Su-Lien are among his greatest successes, both of which were nominated for the important Taishing Prize (“Hey! Lady, please look at me!” & “One, and then to Five”).

The connection between everyday life and the performing arts is currently the starting point for his discussions. The focus of his work can be found in theater, dance and dance theater as well as everything in between. When implementing his projects, he attaches great importance to the equal integration of laypeople in the work of professionals.

In Leipzig he recently realized the educational-aesthetic sound theater “Du Bist Nicht Allein” (“You are not alone”) as an artistic response to the pandemic and, in the summer of 2021, the performance “Als Ein Mensch” (“As A Human”) with drummer Johannes Bode. At the beginning of November 2021 he worked as Art Director with the young Leipzig ensemble for contemporary and early music NEUE AKMMER on an immersive concert project “MORO LASSO”. In 2022 he will carry out an exciting dance project with the contemporary and international choreographer Sunny Yang at the National Taichung Theater (Taiwan) and will build on the successful collaboration with NEUE KAMMER.