Rimini Protokoll

Radioortung - 10 kilometres of files Dresden

- A Stasi audio walk
Haug / Wetzel / Brünger

By some estimates over 10km of files were kept in the Stasi archive in the former Bezirkshauptstadt, Dresden. Rimini Protokoll makes these files accessible: narrating them from the perspective of those affected, at the places the files were created. 50 people in Dresden were asked about their experience of being under surveillance by the state security services. They reconstruct the situations and present their history as a contrast to the Stasi files. How does it sound today, when these so-called 'state and class enemies' explain what the...

Remote X

Stefan Kaegi

Hordes of people who have never met in the real world swarm out on virtual treasure hunts when playing online games. In "Remote X" we're a horde of people wearing radio headphones, swarming out into the real city. A synthetic voice in our headphones (of the kind familiar from GPS navigators or airport announcements) directs the movements of our swarm. Binaural recordings and film scores turn the cityscape into a personal film; artificial Intelligence explores unknown territories, mustering human activity from a remote...

Quality control

Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel

"I'm falling – I": these are the final three words in 'Black Tie', a piece dealing with "the black hole that is identity". At the beginning of the piece, the word "I" is repeated 276 times, a promise that is not kept by the play. A play in which a young woman, who came from Korea to Germany in the '70s, begins the search for her biographical and biological roots. In QUALITY CONTROL this text is updated but the hunt continues. The "I" has changed:  "I have never asked WHY did it...

100% Cork

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

By the end of 2011 Cork had 198.582 inhabitants. 51% of them were female, 49% were male. 8% were under age 6, 12% were over 65 years old. 57% were single and only 1% has a Lithuanian passport... In statistics people are gathered in pieces of pie, bars and curves that are used for political argumentations and economic cost-benefit strategies. What if those statistics had faces? What would it look like if Cork were represented on stage by 100 people, a select population capable of making statistically relevant statements? How many of them...

LAGOS BUSINESS ANGELS

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

According to Goldman Sachs, Nigeria will have overtaken France, South Korea und Canada on the list of the most important national economies by 2050 and will be 10th to 11th on that list, just behind Japan, Germany and Great Britain. Lagos is one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. Crude oil and other abundant raw materials guarantee a flow of currency into the country. And yet European investors still hesitate. They are far more cautious than their Chinese competitors in approaching a country where the power supply regularly breaks...

Situation Rooms

- A multiplayer video piece
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

May 2011, a photo flashes onto screens around the world. It shows 13 people in a room. The expressions on their faces speak volumes: triumph, fascination, scorn, horror, scepticism, preoccupation. The photo from the White House “Situation Room” documents the end of a manhunt that was pursued with all possible weapons. ‘Situation Rooms’ gathers together from various continents 20 people whose biographies have been shaped by weapons in a film set that recreates the globalised world of pistols and rocket-propelled...

100 Percent Dresden

- A statistical chain reaction
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

On December 31st 2011, 530,729 people were living in Dresden. 4.2% of them were foreigners, 51% women and 8.9% were unemployed. In contrast to that, 1.8 million people were visiting Dresden as overnight guests. 17.8% of them were foreign tourists who spent, on average, 2.1 days in Dresden. Statistics gathers people and packs them into pieces of pie, into bars and curves that are used to further political arguments and create economic strategies. What if those statistics had faces? What if Dresden could be represented on stage by 100...

50 kilometers of files

- A walk-in Stasi radio play
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

App-Download . In German language only. Rimini Protokoll haul the Stasi files out of the archives and into the city’s present: About a hundred people in Berlin’s Mitte district are surveyed and for the microphone recollect or reconstruct observations of the sites where the misdeeds were perpetrated. A strange picture-puzzle is created for the users, who have the everyday life familiar to us now in view and original recordings from that time in their ears.   Using GPS phones, the visitors on foot become...