Projects
2022
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16 Scenes for a Forest
When "Die Judenbuche" (The Jew's Beech) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was first published in 1842, it was in 16 parts for a journal and had the subtitle "Ein Sittengemälde aus dem…
Next dates:
02.09. – 09.10.2022
Münster / Havixbeck
Natures Vivantes
What happens when theatre leaves not only its building but also the city? What is hidden behind the landscape? Is it possible to be in nature without exploiting its resources or…
Outside the Bubble
Should artificial intelligence be regulated? Do we need animal testing? How do we succeed in saving the forest? Is genetically modified rice a blessing for humans? These questions…
Next dates:
04.06.2022 – 31.12.2024
Göttingen
CARGO Shanghai - Friesland
The Netherlands are one of the largest exporters of milk and dairy products in the world. China is one of the biggest markets. The Holstein-Friesian cow is one of the most productive…
School Visit Europe
School Visit Europe is a performance you can put in your hand luggage - big ideas are rarely presented so intimately. What is Europe actually? Is it a geographic border, a cultural…
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21.10.2022
Schwäbisch Gmünd
All right. Good night. > radioplay
MH370 was an international scheduled passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines. On March 8, 2014, the Boeing with 227 passengers and twelve crew members took off from Kuala Lumpur…
100% City
A Statistical Chain Reaction 100 citizens that represent their city in 5 criteria, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures…
Next dates:
04. – 21.11.2022
Narva (Estonia), 100% Narva
2021
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All right. Good night.
The theatre is the place of visualization, presence and liveness. Or also A-Liveness. Every stage event is permeated with liveness. The audience can be reassured second by second:…
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06. – 07.12.2022
Ludwigshafen
09.02.2023
Chur
Rimini Protokoll 2000-2020
This book is a journey: to places of inspiration, backstage, archives, notebooks, text worlds and thus through the more than 120 productions (theatre, radio plays, films, installations,…
Unboxing Past
For 34 years, the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt has stored 513 grey archive boxes in its depot. 105 of them bear the inscription "Börneplatzsynagoge", the others are labelled "Judengasse".…
Next dates:
09.09.2021 – 31.12.2022
world wide web
Who else if not You?
This stage is a stage of questions. Questions are what opens up a space between us They open up a stage between us on which we can explain our parts Are there questions…
URBAN NATURE
In 2008, for the first time in the history of humankind, there were more people worldwide living in cities than in the countryside. And in the year 2050, this proportion will increase…
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15.07. – 16.10.2022
Mannheim
Conference of the Absent
There is a crisis! And in times of global crisis, it's all about global cooperation. Nevertheless, this time the crisis is being dealt with locally - on behalf of the world: at a conference…
Next dates:
20. – 23.10.2022
Seoul
23. – 26.11.2022
Berlin
Temple du présent.
How can we understand an animal whose intelligence is radically different from our own? How can we create a relationship with nature without appropriating it? And who is watching whom?…
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27.07. – 11.12.2022
Barcelona
20.11.2022
Salt
100% City
A Statistical Chain Reaction 100 citizens that represent their city in 5 criteria, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures…
2020
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FASE NOVE - Assolo Urbano
The pandemic emergency brought about the division of social components into systemically essential and systemically non-essential. That on which our survival depends has been separated…
WIR - HIER
To celebrate China's 70th anniversary, 15,000 soldiers marched across Tiananmen Square, nuclear intercontinental missiles were driven through the streets, while military helicopters…
Bauprobe Beethoven
The Beethovenhalle on the Rhine was one of the first representative buildings of the post-war period and a landmark of the young German Federal Republic. Modern and transparent in…
Now that we meet again
A show to re-open stages after the restrictions. Now that we meet again - times have changed. The weeks that we did not know much about what happens outside our four walls. Now…
Call Cutta at Home
Who is there on the other end of the service-line? How do invisible workers look? What does outsourcing mean in the times of Corona? Can an Indian home be turned into a call centre? …
1000 Scores
In 1919, Marcel Duchamp sent instructions for an artwork from Buenos Aires to his sister by way of a present. Suzanne Duchamp was asked to source a geometry textbook and suspend it…
Safety Cards
It is in every passenger aircraft at every seat - the current version of the internationally coordinated safety instructions for air travelers regarding a number of foreseeable but…
Société en chantier / Society under Construction
The endless worksite at the Berlin airport, the interminable A3 motorway project in Italy, the squabbles around the future Lyon-Turin tunnel, the football stadiums in Qatar, the huge…
Next dates:
29.09. – 02.10.2022
Toulouse
100% City
A Statistical Chain Reaction 100 citizens that represent their city in 5 criteria, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures…
CELEBRATE NOW - 20 years Rimini Protokoll
"Scientists have agreed that the intersection between past and future events, the now, is a time period of three seconds", 84-year-old Ulrike Falke read out on stage of our first project…
2019
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KANAL KIRCHNER
“On May 25th, 2001 Simone S. is given an envelope in a massage salon in Munich. In it, she finds a Walkman. She follows the voice step by step through Munich and is never seen again.…
Chinchilla Arsehole, eyey
“No intension, it’s just Tourette”, is what Christian Hempel is quick to clarify from the onset, when he’s among people. He cannot control his rants, insults and motor tics.…
Feast of Food
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s portrayed the farmers, villages of his time and region in a realistic, often crude way. 450 years after paintings like “The Peasant Wedding” or “Winter…
Granma. Trombones from Havana
Cuba has always been a projection space for utopians and their critics. In the 60th year of the revolution, four young Cubans search for traces of history: after the revolution, Faustino…
Play* Europeras 1&2
It premiered in 1987 at the Frankfurt Opera – the Alte Oper – and John Cage said that the project was one of the few decisions that he regretted in his life; probably feeling that…
100% City
A Statistical Chain Reaction 100 citizens that represent their city in 5 criteria, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures…
Cargo X
A documentary truck ride by Rimini Protokoll (Kaegi/Karrenbauer) Rimini Protokoll has transformed a truck into a theatre – the seating installed in the trailer takes 50 spectators…
2018
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Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas
When Phillis suggests to drive across Germany with their VW-Van, her father Christian is thrilled with the idea. Christian, who is suffering from Tourette Syndrome, has been increasingly avoiding…
Bubble Jam
Who is on the other end of the internet? How does an algorithm work? Who, or what, is giving us directions? And who, or what, is fake here? Bubble Jam turns the internet into…
Uncanny Valley
We mostly think of robots as work machines, as efficient and precise executors of tasks. In German industry, they barely look like people, to avoid emotional complications. Unlike…
Next dates:
28. – 29.09.2022
Vilnius
DO's & DON'Ts
The city is like a giant laboratory in which you can observe everyday human behaviour. But there are rules in the lab. Do's and don'ts. What can you do and what would it be better…
Home Visit Australia
It has been said over and over that the Gold Coast is a transient tourism town, but exactly who are the half-a-million locals who call the GC home? Rimini Protokoll warmly invites…
Davos State of the World / Weltzustand Davos (State 4)
State 1-4 With their series State 1–4, Rimini Protokoll set out to explore fields outside of what can be organized and controlled by the nation-state today. Rimini Protokoll look…
100% City
A Statistical Chain Reaction 100 citizens that represent their city in 5 criteria, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures…
Cargo X
A documentary truck ride by Rimini Protokoll (Kaegi/Karrenbauer) Rimini Protokoll has transformed a truck into a theatre – the seating installed in the trailer takes 50 spectators…
2017
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So close to the Middle-East Heaven!
We are what they are not. Israel and Palestine alternatingly emphasize their differences and contrasts. The Heavens seem divided; the vicious circle of irreconcilability seems insuperable.…
win > < win
“We are in this crazy, unforeseen and incomprehensible situation where we are competing against jellyfish. And they are winning,” says the Australian marine biologist and jellyfish…
Next dates:
22.09.2022 – 31.01.2023
Beijing