Helgard Haug

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studied at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften (Institute of Applied Theatre Studies) in Giessen, Germany. 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 grounded Rimini Protokoll - together with Daniel Wetzel and Stefan Kaegi. Rimini Protokoll produces theatre pieces and work in the urban environment in a diverse variety of collaborative partnerships. Using research, auditions and conceptual processes, allowing what they call ‘Experts’ to find their unique voice. Latest productions include Call Cutta in a Box, a one-to-one telephone performance that takes place live from a call centre in India; Breaking News, a ‘daily news show’ with 9 protagonists, who ‘re-present’ the evening news as messengers from their own respective cultural and linguistic areas on stage and let it take effect there; 100% Berlin, a living arrangement of statistics for 100 citizens on a revolving stage; Black Tie, a play that circles the black hole of origins, the strangely eloquent and “helping” young human genetics industry of these times, and the alienation between my environment and myself. For the project Hauptversammlung they found an access to the annual shareholders meeting of Daimler Benz for 200 theatrevisitors and turned the whole event into a theatreplay.
Their plays 'deadline' and 'Wallenstein' have been invited to Theatertreffen.
2008 Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel won the Mülheimer Dramatiker Preis for „Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Erster Band“ and for their radioproduction they got an award for radio art (Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden - Haug/Wetzel).

Rimini Protokoll was awarded the Faust Theatre Prize in 2007, the European Prize for New Theatre Forms in 2008 and in 2011 the silver lion of the Biennale for Performing Arts in Venice.

Helgard Haug and Rimini Protokoll have been Artists-in-Residence at HAU, Berlin, since 2003. www.hebbel-am-ufer.de