Rimini Protokoll

100 percent Karlsruhe

- a statistical chainreaction Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

For statistical purposes, people are converted into pie wedges, bars and curves used in their turn for political arguments and economic cost- benefit strategies. What if these statistics were given faces? What if Karlsruhe was represented onstage by 100 persons, a number chosen to yield statistically ‘correct’ information? According to statistics (gender, age, neighourhood, country of origin, living arrangement) 100 citizens were chosen to reflect Karlsruhe on stage. Rimini Protokoll only chose the very first...

First Saarbrücken poetry lectureship dedicated to drama

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

This winter semester, Saarland University, together with the Saarländisches Staatstheater, the Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken, the VHS Regionalverband Saarbrücken and the VSE AG in Saarbrücken, will become the first university in a German-speaking country to host a poetry lectureship dedicated exclusively to drama. The first honorary lectureship has been awarded to Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel from the theatre collective Rimini Protokoll. They will give four public lectures in January and February 2012...

Black Tie

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

The only thing she got from the adoption agency about the time before the first document is the mythical information “You were found in a box in South Korea in 1977, wrapped in newspaper”. For “Black Tie”, Miriam Yung Min Stein spits into a tube from the company 23andMe, takes a swab with a “genome collector” from the company DeCODEme, and waits for the two market leaders to partially sequence her genome. One of the companies greets her on its website that will reveal her genetic data with the slogan...

Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)

Stefan Kaegi

In the 20th century people were shipped between the continents like barrels of oil. The documentary-theatre piece “Bodenprobe Kasachstan” (Soil Sample Kazakhstan) sets out in search of oil with a cast of individuals able to talk about the resource in terms of personal history. Stefan Kaegi and his team began casting in March 2010; the biographies brought together on the stage trace the route of the pipelines from Germany back to Kazakhstan then below the ground. The oil trail is pursued by: a retired Russian-German tank-truck...

Call Cutta in a Box

An intercontinental phone play Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)

Imagine you are buying a ticket at the box office for an individual show on a specific day, but are not led to the auditorium of the theatre. Instead, you get the key for a room and a sketch of how to get there. It might be a room in the theatre, an office, or an apartment somewhere close by. You open the door and you find a phone ringing. You pick up the phone and a person with a strange accent strikes up a conversation with you. The person seems to know the room you are sitting in, even though he is about 10.000 km away. The voice belongs...

Mr. Dağacar and the Golden Tectonics of Trash

Haug / Wetzel

Mr. Dağacar says: "Istanbul's soil is paved with gold" and takes off to scratch a bit of that gold in his cart: every night, countless young men stream through the streets of Istanbul and gather from the ground and from the front of the stores the things that have become a burden to others and exchange this for little money for themselves and their families in eastern Anatolia. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel followed them on their routes through the city and shared their microscopic view on the garbage, whose value is linked...

Radio Muezzin

Stefan Kaegi

A freed slave became the first muezzin because he had a honey-sweet voice. Later muezzins used to climb the minaret to make the call to prayer, the Adhan. Until the 1950s, most of them were blind - to keep them from peeping into windows from the minaret. Now their voices resonate via loudspeakers - while they stand in the mosque with a microphone in their hand. In Cairo most muezzins are government employees who often sleep in the mosques and rarely visit their families living in remote villages. Besides being responsible for the call...

LAGOS BUSINESS ANGELS

Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)

Laut Goldman Sachs soll Nigeria 2050 Frankreich, Südkorea und Kanada auf der Liste der wichtigsten Volkswirtschaften überholt haben und kurz hinter Japan, Deutschland und Großbritannien auf Platz 10 oder 11 zu finden sein. Lagos ist eine der am schnellsten wachsenden Metropolen der Welt. Erdöl und andere reichlich vorhandene Rohstoffe garantieren Devisenfluss. Und trotzdem zögern europäische Investoren noch, gehen sie doch vorsichtiger als ihre chinesischen Konkurrenten auf ein Land zu, wo der Strom...

Ciudades Paralelas - Parallel Cities

A project curated by Lola Arias und Stefan Kaegi Arias / Kaegi

www.ciudadesparalelas.com Hotel rooms, shopping centres, factories... these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting to the outside eye. But without them life in the city would be uninhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over mean these places are instantly recognisable, each modelled on similar rules but displaying a local face. For “Ciudades Paralelas”, Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi have invited several artists to devise interventions into these kind of...

Offending Peymann - radio play

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

An acoustic protocol of the researches on files and anecdotes by Claus Peymann and others on the “dental donations affair” and the TV Stammheim (Stammheim Sports Club). »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Radio play by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel The „brave dentist Dr Maurer“ had performed...

50 Aktenkilometer

a walk-in Stasi radio play Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

In German language only. 50 kilometres of files 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...

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100 percent Karlsruhe

- a statistical chainreaction Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

First Saarbrücken poetry lectureship dedicated to drama

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Black Tie

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)

Stefan Kaegi

Call Cutta in a Box

An intercontinental phone play Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)

Mr. Dağacar and the Golden Tectonics of Trash

Haug / Wetzel

Radio Muezzin

Stefan Kaegi

LAGOS BUSINESS ANGELS

Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)

Ciudades Paralelas - Parallel Cities

A project curated by Lola Arias und Stefan Kaegi Arias / Kaegi

Offending Peymann - radio play

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

50 Aktenkilometer

a walk-in Stasi radio play Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel