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2:30pm – 4:00pm Rimini Protokoll – World Climate Change Conference (Germany)
55 minutes | Elebash Recital Hall (180 seats)
German with English subtitles www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en
Berlin’s groundbreaking experimental theatre ensemble Rimini Protokoll, made up of Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, work in many realms: theatre, sound and radio plays, film, and installation. In 2014, for the theatre Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), the ensemble created a mammoth-scale “drama of diplomacy“ — a simulation of the 2015 Paris UN Conference on Climate Change. Rimini asked audience members to divide into 196 national delegations and to reenact proceedings of international climate diplomacy. Documentary filmmakers Sandra Trosel & Lilli Thalgott documented the process.
Photo courtesy of the artists
ABOUT RIMINI PROTOKOLL
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel studied at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen and work together (in various combinations) under the name of Rimini Protokoll. They are recognized as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as “Reality Trend” (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene. Each project begins with a concrete situation in a specific place and is then developed through an intense exploratory process. They have attracted international attention with their dramatic works, which take place in that colorful zone between reality and fiction. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its “theatre of experts” to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called “experts” for that very reason. Since 2004, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel have been based at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin. Among others, the three have created Shooting Bourbaki (Haug/ Kaegi/Wetzel), which won the NRW-Impulse Prize in 2003 (the same year the Theater magazine yearbook called them the most promising young directors of the year); Deadline (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel), presented in the Berlin Theatre Encounters in 2004; Schwarzenbergplatz (Haug/ Kaegi/ Wetzel), nominated in Austria for the Nestroy Prize for Theatre; and Wallenstein (Haug/Wetzel), performed in the Theatre Encounters in 2006. Their extremely topical piece Mnemopark (Kaegi) won the Jury Prize at the Politik im freienTheater (Politics in Free Theatre) Festival, while Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Erster Band (Haug/Wetzel) won the Mülheimer Dramatiker Prize in 2007. In November 2007, Haug, Kaegi and Wetzel were awarded the German DER FAUST prize for theatre and in April 2008 they won the European Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki in the category New Realities. Call Cutta in a Box won a Honorary Mention by the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art. In 2011, they were awarded the Silver Lion of the 41st Venice Biennale, established to honor new theatrical realities.
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Rimini Protokoll – World Climate Change Conference
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2:30pm – 4:00pm
Rimini Protokoll – World Climate Change Conference (Germany)
55 minutes | Elebash Recital Hall (180 seats)
German with English subtitles
www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en
Berlin’s groundbreaking experimental theatre ensemble Rimini Protokoll, made up of Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, work in many realms: theatre, sound and radio plays, film, and installation. In 2014, for the theatre Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), the ensemble created a mammoth-scale “drama of diplomacy“ — a simulation of the 2015 Paris UN Conference on Climate Change. Rimini asked audience members to divide into 196 national delegations and to reenact proceedings of international climate diplomacy. Documentary filmmakers Sandra Trosel & Lilli Thalgott documented the process.
Photo courtesy of the artists
ABOUT RIMINI PROTOKOLL
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel studied at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen and work together (in various combinations) under the name of Rimini Protokoll. They are recognized as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as “Reality Trend” (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene. Each project begins with a concrete situation in a specific place and is then developed through an intense exploratory process. They have attracted international attention with their dramatic works, which take place in that colorful zone between reality and fiction. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its “theatre of experts” to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called “experts” for that very reason. Since 2004, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel have been based at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin. Among others, the three have created Shooting Bourbaki (Haug/ Kaegi/Wetzel), which won the NRW-Impulse Prize in 2003 (the same year the Theater magazine yearbook called them the most promising young directors of the year); Deadline (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel), presented in the Berlin Theatre Encounters in 2004; Schwarzenbergplatz (Haug/ Kaegi/ Wetzel), nominated in Austria for the Nestroy Prize for Theatre; and Wallenstein (Haug/Wetzel), performed in the Theatre Encounters in 2006. Their extremely topical piece Mnemopark (Kaegi) won the Jury Prize at the Politik im freienTheater (Politics in Free Theatre) Festival, while Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Erster Band (Haug/Wetzel) won the Mülheimer Dramatiker Prize in 2007. In November 2007, Haug, Kaegi and Wetzel were awarded the German DER FAUST prize for theatre and in April 2008 they won the European Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki in the category New Realities. Call Cutta in a Box won a Honorary Mention by the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art. In 2011, they were awarded the Silver Lion of the 41st Venice Biennale, established to honor new theatrical realities.