Rimini Protokoll - Projects

2010

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... details

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15.10.2010–17.10.2010 | Istanbul

Ciudades Paralelas - Parallel Cities. A project curated by | 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... details

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17.09.2010–24.09.2010 | Berlin
26.10.2010–04.11.2010 | Buenos Aires
17.06.2011–25.06.2011 | Zürich

Three birds with one stone. An exhibition. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

You walk into a shop, intent on buying an ironing board. When the bar code is scanned, a public announcement is set off describing the item you have just bought and stating the exact price for all the other shoppers... details

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10.09.2010–21.11.2010 | Heidelberg

Prometheus in Athen . With 103 inhabitants of Athens | Haug / Wetzel

"Prometheus bound": What do Athenians know, what do they think about it today? "Prometheus in Athens" is pursuing this question with 103 inhabitants of Athens, who were found regarding two... details

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22.09.2010 | Istanbul

100 PROZENT WIEN - 100 PERCENT VIENNA. A Statistical Chain Reaction | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

As per 1 July 2009, Vienna had 1.693,570 inhabitants. As compared to the previous year, 69,901 were recorded as newcomers, 15,702 as deceased and 17,375 as new births. For statistical purposes, people are converted... details

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Best Before. | Helgard Haug / Stefan Kaegi

Best Before pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and rewires it for an intimate theatre setting. With a gaming controller in hand, each of the 200 audience members begin as an anonymous avatar... details

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01.09.2010–04.09.2010 | Aarhus
11.09.2010–15.09.2010 | Genf
25.10.2010–26.10.2010 | Torino
29.10.2010–30.10.2010 | Udine

2009

Cargo Asia. A Truck Ride through Japan, Singapore, Shanghai | Kaegi / Karrenbauer

After two years on tour through Europe and Middle East with Stefan Kaegi's Cargo Sofia, Jörg Karrenbauer brings the converted truck to Asia and casted two japanese drivers. Their lives and music synchronize the... details

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Sicherheitskonferenz (Security Conference). | Stefan Kaegi

What does intelligent ammunition think? Is anybody able to understand a troop contingent speaking 12 languages? How do you simulate Day X? 300 conference participants, 3,500 protesters, 4,000 police... details

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Welcome to you!. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

“You were found in South Korea in 1977 in a box, wrapped in newspaper.” was the only information from the adoption agency. How can you narrate your biography when the record only begins with your arrival... details

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Vùng biên giới. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

In the spring of 2008, Rimini Protokoll set out to investigate the neighbourhood of two Countries. At the German/Czech border they discovered that 'Vietnam lies between Prague and Dresden'. Here, behind armies of... details

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Heuschrecken (Locusts). | Stefan Kaegi

Locusts can form huge swarms that turn into devastating plagues of biblical dimensions – that’s the image we remember from horror films or from politicians’ attacks on the practices of aggressive speculators. But... details

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The sorcerer's apprentice. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

On the day of her return to Iceland, in recognition of “her service and self-sacrifice”, Herdis Sigurgrimsdottir received a certificate thanking her for securing a better future for the whole world. A... details

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Waldeinsamskype. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Sagnik‘s surname is Chakraborty. Maybe this is why when he telephones German customers from a call centre in Calcutta he prefers to call himself Eckbert or Eckhardt. He learned German at the Goethe Institute... details

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Deutschland 2 (exhibition). | Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel

Badischer Kunstverein COME IN, FRIENDS, THE HOUSE IS YOURS! 24. April - 14. Juni 2009 Martin Beck, Erick Beltrán, Luca Frei, Dani Gal, Sharon Hayes, Martin Kaltwasser/Folke Köbberling,... details

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Deadline (radio play). | Böhle/Kröck/Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel

Death – one of the greatest protagonists in art, on stage and in literature – is the only certainty for the living! When it does make an appearance though, relatives are usually overwhelmed and delegate... details

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Annual Shareholders Meeting. | Helgard Haug / Stefan Kaegi / Daniel Wetzel

Rimini Protokoll: Annual Shareholders‘ Meeting On the 8th of April 2009 Rimini Protokoll invited theatregoers to one of the most elaborate performances of the season: the Daimler Annual... details

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Call Cutta in a Blog. an evening with performers of Call Cutta in a Box | Daniel Wetzel

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2008

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... details

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02.09.2010–03.09.2010 | Reykjavik
09.10.2010–10.10.2010 | Carpi/Modena

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... details

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17.09.2010–18.09.2010 | Helsingborg
22.09.2010–23.09.2010 | Trondheim
14.10.2010–15.10.2010 | Budapest
19.10.2010–20.10.2010 | Basel

Old School. Workshop with students of the institute for applied theater sciene, Giessen | Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Giessen

Old School Project at Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft Justus Liebig Universität Giessen Guest Professor: Daniel Wetzel With: Ana Berkenhoff Símon Birgisson Leifur Tor... details

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Transcreceiver. Kurzfilm | Helgard Haug

Senderempfänger (Transreceiver) A space that is visually completely and thoroughly coded, generally known, and ‘reliable’ - let’s take the Swiss news studio for a start - is felt and... details

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Airport kids. | Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi

Portable kids. Nomad kids, sons of international company’s managers. Kids abandoned in airports. Orphan kids left behind because of airplane crashes. Kids who travel from one country to the other but they feel... details

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Made in Italy. Factory Life Theater Works II | Daniel Wetzel

Alveare - percorsi performativi Contemporanea Colline Festival, Prato 2008 details

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Election Campain Wallenstein. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

A film by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel. The protagonists of “Wallenstein. A documentary production” (2005) on stage.... details

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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... details

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100 Percent Berlin. Eine statistische Kettenreaktion | Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi und Daniel Wetzel

“100 Percent Berlin” – a gathering that is a city, a group, just beginning to experience itself, a choir that has never practised, an impossible entity with many faces is always assembled into ever... details

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Breaking News – a Daily News Show. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

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.... details

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2007

SOKO São Paulo. | Lola Arias und Stefan Kaegi

São Paolo is one of the most dangerous places in the world. Munich is the most secure city in Germany. In January 2007 the Swiss specialist in documentary theatre Stefan Kaegi (Rimini-Protokoll) and the... details

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Karl Marx: Capital, Volume One - radio play. | Haug / Wetzel

A radio piece about the stage play of the same name using recordings from the research process, from rehearsals, performances, backstage, sound check, and the kitchens and offices of Berlin.... details

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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).... details

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Offending Peymann – a Training. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

30 years have passed and everywhere the files are being opened once again: Buback, Schleyer and Klein and the 4 lever arch files full of documents on the fuss surrounding the ‘Zahnspendenaffäre’... details

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World Premiere: The Visit. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Reconstruction of the premiere in 1956 and of the events surrounding it, before and after, in the same place, with those who were involved back then, 11 children, 46 life-size black and white photos, and a musician.... details

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Chácara Paraíso. Police Art Show | Stefan Kaegi / Lola Arias

Chácara Paraíso, São Paulo, is the location of the largest center of soldier’s education of the Military Police in Latin America. Every day, more that 2000 soldiers learn how to... details

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2006

Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

There are 751 pages between the first and the last sentence – between: "The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ?an immense accumulation of... details

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14.09.2010–16.09.2010 | Moskau
19.10.2010 | Friedrichshafen
25.01.2011–26.01.2011 | Duisburg

miles and more. The drama of political resignation | Haug / Wetzel und Heike Haug

The drama of political resignation. Radio play about the allure of power, pitfalls, ejector seats, politicians who cling to their positions, ‘bad timing’, departmental disasters and crisis... details

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Cargo Sofia-X. A Bulgarian truck-ride through European cities | Stefan Kaegi

Truck drivers They have their first names written directly under the windscreen; they are sitting 2 meters above street-level and have 500 hp under their right foot. They have seen all countries of Europe but... details

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The Memory Job / The Police Training Opera. | Wetzel / Psimenou

2 Beiträge zu „Apartamentos Equis“ („X Wohnungen“) in Caracas.... details

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Blaiberg and sweetheart19. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

A play about the search for the “right heart” in heart transplants and dating agencies and the continuation of life on the online platform Second Life.... details

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Men, please step forward!. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

The director of Germany’s first extramarital affair agency sits on the revolving stage of the Züricher Schauspielhaus and arranges erotic relationships from there as a “social (welfare)... details

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2005

Cameriga. Meta-burocracy by | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

The house of Riga City Council was built in 1913 as a bank; during 1930s it housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the apartments of the Prime Minister K?rlis Ulmanis, in the times of german occupation the... details

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Wallenstein. A documentary-play | Haug / Wetzel

Actually, Ralf Kirsten had already signed his discharge papers as Police-Officer, returned his weapon, and was abominably said good-bye by his superiors. But then everything changed over night. The wall fell, the... details

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Mnemopark. A Mini Train World. | Stefan Kaegi

The world of Mnemopark is based upon an actual railway model – 1:87. What does society look like in its industrially manufactured reduplication? By means of minicameras Mnemopark advances into a model of the... details

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Wurfsendung: Schnappauf im Patentamt. | Haug / Wetzel

10 Radiobeiträge mit ca. 45 Sek. Länge über Erfindungen und Erfinder und Klang-Kategorien im Verzeichnis des Berliner Patentamts.... details

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Call Cutta. Mobile Phone Theatre | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Who are you when the phone rings? Does intimicy start when service ends? Imagine going for a walk with somebody who is not there! A 60-minutes Mobile Phone Theatre by Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel THE PLAY... details

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2004

Schwarzenbergplatz. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

The Project Where does Vienna stop being a stage? Rimini Protokoll rummaged through Vienna’s diplomacy and representation at the Schwarzenbergplatz with research and background conversations. In doing so... details

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Everything must go!. | Haug / Wetzel

A radio play about the global market and co-operative competition.... details

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Brunswick Airport. Weil der Himmel uns braucht | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

“We’re starting now....Sit down and then you will realise what you feel. This is no computer game kiddies would love, but a serious training instrument. “ Volker Brandt, SIMTETC... details

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Sabenation. Go home & follow the news. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

"With Sabena you’re in good hands!" This optimistic slogan is now nothing more than a discarded item up for sale. "Go home and follow the news!" is all Sabena employees... details

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Hot Spots - ímoun ethó. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel / Michael Marmarinos

Hot Spots HIMOUN EDO a guided theatre on tourism in Athens Athens, Thesseum, avant premiere: march 8, opening: march 11 25 performances (except tuesdays and wednsdays) until april 6... details

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Zeugen! Ein Verhör. | Haug / Kagei / Wetzel

12 Uhr Untreue, 13 Uhr Diebstahl, nach der Mittagspause Paragraph 310 (Vorbereitung eines Explosionsverbrechens): Stundenplan im Landgericht. Das Regieteam Rimini Protokoll bringt das, was man gemeinhin Wirklichkeit... details

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Zeugen! Ein Strafkammerspiel. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

“The artificial trial reality shifts unerringly under the hands of Rimini Protokoll into an unveiling art project. The abstract turns back into its concrete motif and shows the obvious through side remarks.... details

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2003

Blue Blooms the Gentian. | Helgard Haug

Only one show remained after the dissolution of the one-time Western propaganda radio station RIAS in the program of the newly formed DeutschlandRadio Berlin: Sonntags Rätsel (Sunday Riddle) with... details

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Short Cut. The Krakau Files . | Stefan Kaegi

This play traces an invisible thread through the city: you can follow its course or yank at it. A curtain lifts behind every door, and a performance begins.... details

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Market of Markets. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

On the balcony of the Metropol cinema in Bonn 40 theatregoers sit every Wednesday and observe the end of the market place. We hear the voices of organisers, traders, stand owners, and economic experts...... details

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The Midnight Special Agency. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Whom do you represent? Where is your fiction? Which part are you playing? The city is a stage. Every midnight of the Festival Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel are inviting a Brussels' citizen to... details

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Deadline. | Helgard Haug / Stefan Kaegi / Daniel Wetzel

A play about death – not about bloodthirsty tyrants and jealous lovers, but about the average Central European death.... details

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¡SENTATE! (Platz!)Un zoostituto. Ein Placebo-Zoo | Stefan Kaegi

A theatre-zoo-substitute for a dog, a leguan, two turtles, nine rabbits and their human partners details

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2002

Wundersame Welt der Übertragung I-III. | Haug / Wetzel

a radioplay series investigating transmission and reception in Germany details

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Physik. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

A high energy demonstration of science and fiction Why can you sometimes hear voices in loudspeakers when nothing at all is running? What note do we have to sing to make the stage vibrate? Could the whole... details

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Matraca Catraca. Uma viagem REM. | Stefan Kaegi

A trip through Salvador da Bahia in a bus with 40 headphones and a DJ Diney the driver Diney was driving, speaking and screaming at the other busses Singing the post-economy In this place a new... details

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State. A Terrarium. . | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

“It seems that socialism works under particular conditions. Karl Marx only dealt with the wrong sort." (Hölldobler/Wilson: Ants) During the few seconds while you are reading these lines, 40... details

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don't cream!. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Acropolis Tourist Guide Miranda Skiniti on tourism as theatre.... details

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Deutschland 2 (Hörspiel). | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Radioplay of the parliament project featuring the voices of the Berlin original (left) and of it's simultanuous pirate copies (right) details

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Undo. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Radioplay with Ilia Papatheodorou, Detlev B. Linke and others. What if the brain data control chip produces undo-steps in your brain? details

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Deutschland 2 (Theater). | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel / Ernst

Deutscher Bundestag: 669 members of parliament make speeches and take part in debates as they represent the country and the people who voted for them. But what happens if for a change the voters represent their... details

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Deutschland 2: Kritisches Tagebuch. | Haug / Wetzel

Drei Dialoge zu Demokratie und Kopie im Vorfeld des Theaterprojekts „Deutschland 2“.... details

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Sonde Hannover. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel / Ernst

How suspicious is the sound of a conversation transmitted through a directional microphone? How much adjustment is needed in order to not attract attention? June 2002: every night 40 spectators equipped with... details

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The Glow Worm Conspiracy. | Stefan Kaegi

Live radio play for the Intermedium at the ZKM Karlsruhe about guerrilla sabotage and house borer larva.... details

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Shooting Bourbaki. 5 swiss boys performing on their self stabilizing strategies and the teenage urge to shoot | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

What is a target? What happens when you close your eyes and your hand meditates in the air? What do boys dream of? Who can shoot faster than their own shadow? What happened to General Bourbaki in January 1871?... details

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2001

Apparatus Herz. Special Broadcasts on Travel Permit Issues | Haug / Wetzel

To agree to disagree was the formula that allowed East Berliners to visit their relatives in the other part of the city for a couple of days in 1963/64. The RIAS set up a hotline.... details

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Apparatus Berlin. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

Stage work on managing the masses, panic research and an experiment on the self in both parts of the divided Berlin in Winter 1963/64.... details

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Raubkopie: Boxenstopp. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Formula I Pilots Falke (84) and Düring (81) finally take Berlin... a pirate copy of Kreuzworträtsel Boxenstopp. A pirate copy of Kreuzworträtsel Boxenstopp: Two of the 4 old ladies travel to Berlin,... details

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Europe dances. 48-hour Congress for 72 Guinea Pigs in Vienna. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

Moderate squeaking> begging tone High-pitched squeaking> fear Screaming> pain Cooing> complete satisfaction Chatterig teeth> threatening gesture Chattering and a rocking galt> males... details

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Torero Portero. | Stefan Kaegi

Eine Strassenintervention mit Tonübertragung für Zuschauer hinter Glas ... details

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Sitzgymnastik Boxenstopp. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

The race is over, the pilots recapitulate on air what happened before the crash. details

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Play Dagobert. | Stefan Kaegi

Romanze für Ensemble mit Guckkastenbühne... details

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De Hermeneutische Fitness Studio. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

De Hermeneutische Fitness Studio Beursschouwburg Brüssel März 21.-31. März 2001 "I think with my knees" Joseph Beuys Every thought is a movement - every movement is a... details

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Identa 01. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute) / Hartmuth Dedert

Life is enough: leben/erzählen... details

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2000

Kreuzworträtsel Boxenstopp. | Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

In July 2000 Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel discovered for the stage four ladies aged over 80 and turned them into Formula-One competitors in regard to their own speed, patience and presence. With three months to go until the... details

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Wir wohnen gerne modern. | Helgard Haug

The city is taken apart in its components. A virtual city is created out of its single buildings. Seed-bags are offered to consumers. A photo shows the expected result. A text gives information about the handling. details

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Aloa Samoa. | Haug / Wetzel / Tobias / Wagner

Art can be fun but somebody has to pay for it We’re in Samoa, you can call us from a public phone box in Gießen, Germany details

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Kirchner. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

3 Audiotours for 3 Festivals details

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U-deur. | Helgard Haug

an oudour-recipe - a formula - was developed, based on a specific smell analysis of the subwaystation Alexander Platz Each space has its own unmistakable odour. An analysis of the smell in the U-Bahn Line 2... details

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O-Ton Ü-Tek. | Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

turning radio insinde-out for one hour O-Ton Ü-Tek / The Sound of making Radio turning radio inside out for one hour – a radioplay by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel O-Ton Ü-Tek / The Sound... details

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Kongreß der Schwarzfahrer. | Kaegi / Ernst (Hygiene heute)

A 7-hours-congress on fare-dodging in Hamburg details

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Warum Jodie Foster kein Wasser will. | Stefan Kaegi

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came to rest. solo exhibition | Helgard Haug

Einzelausstellung über Rast und Unrast in einer schwäbischen Kleinstadt, den Fußgängerzonen-Sänger Caruso, ungehörte Startschüsse und leerstehende Kinos . ... details

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90er

Training 747. | Stefan Kaegi / Bernd Ernst (Hygiene heute)

Ein live-Flugzeugabsturzfilm mit Ready-Mades und Pannen... details

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Mobile Reviere II. | Helgard Haug

A transmission of the outlines of the gallery-space onto the map of Berlin. All streets are rebuilt as textile objects, sewed and formed and finally become travel-objects. details

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Etappe Bekanntenkreis. Marke: Ungunstraum | Haug / Droß / Wetzel

Aufführung und Installation.... details

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Bei wieviel Lux schalten Wurst und Schumacher das Licht ein?. | Haug/Droß/Wetzel

Marke: Ungunstraum. Theaterprojekt.... details

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Über das HDW-Verfahren. | Haug / Droß / Wetzel

sich Gedanken machen über die Schwierigkeiten des Personen- und Güterverkehrs in einem Land mit extremen Ungunsträumen... details

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Ungunstraum - Alles zu seiner Zeit. | Haug / Droß / Wetzel

The UNGUNSTRAUM project (1995-1998) work in progress in 17 site specific stages and miscellaneous side works. HAUG/DROSS/WETZEL started in January 1995 from Giessen with a series of shows, that lasted up to... details

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