Rimini Protokoll: Staging Reality

Rimini Protokoll: Staging Reality
- Date
- Feb 12th 2012
- With
- Dorothee Wenner, Daniel Wetzel, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi
For more than ten years the Berlin-based theatre label Rimini Protokoll has produced and toured their documentary theatre pieces around the world. Rimini Protokoll does not set up oppositions between the stage and the audience, but strives to integrate the two spheres in ever changing experimental setups. In doing so, they explore their interest in perception and the knowability of the world, and in particular, the knowability of human beings. Their aim is to break open our reality, showing it in all its facets as a way of enabling us to interrogate it. Rimini Protokoll apply their method to the world with enormous subtlety and great curiosity, bringing people and ideas together in constellations that always come as a surprise. They have become central figures in the theatre world, making a great impact in German theatres over the past decade. The directors Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel will show and discuss short videos from their recent productions.

Dorothee Wenner
Dorothee Wenner is a filmmaker, film curator and writer based in Berlin. She serves as delegate to Berlin International Film Festival for the Subsahara-Africa region, as external curator at Humboldt Forum for film/cinema and others. Since inception in 2005, Dorothee belongs to the jury of Lagos based African Movie Academy Awards. Her latest work as a filmmaker was the web-series "Kinshasa Collection".

Daniel Wetzel
Co-founder and member of the avantgarde theatre company Rimini Protokoll. Since 2004 the company has been artist in residence at the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin. Rimini Protokoll‘s original plays won several international awards like the European Theatre Award in 2007 and the Silver Lion at the International Theatre Biennale Festival in Venice in 2011.

Helgard Haug
Since 1996 she has been involved with projects which are on the borderline of theatre, documentation, radio play and the applied arts. In 2000 she co-founded Rimini Protokoll, producing theatre pieces and works in the urban environment in a variety of collaborative partnerships. Using research, auditions and conceptual processes, allowing “experts” to find their unique voice.

Stefan Kaegi
Founding member of Rimini Protokoll, who produce documentary theatre plays, radio shows and works in the urban environment. Using research, public auditions and conceptual processes, giving voice to experts, who are not trained actors but have something to tell. Since 2003 Rimini Protokoll have been Artists-in-Residence at HAU Berlin.