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 in November 2000 and waited for 3 seconds.

Back then, we had convinced four women from the neighbouring retirement home to work with us on a piece at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt - for us it was about ageing, but the ladies above 80 didn't want to hear about that and preferred to play Formula 1 pilots - we convinced each other.

Celebrate the NOW, exhibit, frame, think further and anchor, shift, raise the volume; we have done that - for 20 years - in many works with wonderfully self-opinionated protagonists, artist-colleagues and audiences - and that we want to celebrate:

HERE and NOW in at least 5 of Berlin's (theatre) houses - over several month!

PROGRAM
Situation Rooms (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
An immersive film set: 20 protagonists shot their films about the globalized world of assault rifles and drones, rulers and refugees, simultaneously. Now the visitors enter this film set and slip into their shoes.
December 21 2019 until January 11 2020
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
 
Feast of Food (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
A 360 ° installation with head-mounted displays. A contemporary diorama of food-production in the 21st century.
December 21 2019 until January 11 2020
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
 
VIDEO SCREENINGS and RADIO PLAYS 
December 21 2019 until January 11 2020
 
Uncanny Valley (Kaegi)
The humanoid copy of german writer Thomas Melle performs a lecture on it’s own robotic condition.
December 28 2019 until January 11 2020
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
 
Granma. Trombones from Havana (Kaegi)
Four young Cubans reconstruct the revolution of their grandparents, rewriting the history of their country. With the help of archive footage and trombones. 
December 27 and December 28 2019
Maxim Gorki Theater
 
Bubble Jam (Wetzel) - ALL DATES IN MAY ARE CANCELLED
„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? Cloud theater for teenager.
January 7 until January 10 2020 / February 11 until February 13 2020 / May 6 until May 8 2020
Grips Theater im Podewil
 
100% Berlin reloaded  (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
100 citizens represent their city, a sample, a cross-section of the society, always assembled into ever changing new group pictures on stage wondering: how has Berlin changed in the last 12 years?
January 9 until January 12 2020
January 11 2020: Rimini Protokoll Now – Thoughts by John McGrath, Artistic Director Manchester International Festival, HAU 1
Following: Party @WAU
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
 
Remote Mitte (Kaegi/Karrenbauer) - CANCELLED
A collective audiowalk about our encounter with artificial intelligence.
Spring 2020
Maxim Gorki Theater
 
Due to the Theatertreffen 2020 cancelling  Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas (Haug) will also not take place live on stage, but virtually. On May 6 2020 from 8pm you can find a 24 hour stream under: Berliner Festspiele on Demand and/or nachtkritik.de.
To what degree can theatre tolerate an absence of intent? How much protection can theatre offer? A theatre play on control options, verbal attacks, parliament Tourette and the question of what normality is ... 
In planning May 2020
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
 
win > < win (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel) - CANCELLED
A theatrical installation which dares to look into the future, when jellyfish will have become winners of the man-made global warming.
May 7 to May 18 2020
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 
 
LATE NIGHT PROTOKOLL WITH RIMINI - CANCELLED
On occasion of the 20th anniversary of Rimini Protokoll
Book launch, project highlights of the last 20 years – and: party!
May 9 2020
Weltwirtschaft im Haus der Kulturen der Welt
 
RADIO PLAYS IN LIVING ROOMS - CANCELLED
(Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
Radio plays by Rimini Protokoll in living rooms of selected hosts.
January until May 2020
 
Picture: Ulrike Falke im Jetzt während “Raubkopie Boxenstopp”, 2000
Photo: Katalin Deér
 
      
 
    
 
 
Rimini Protokoll is regularly funded within the Konzeptförderung programme since 2011 by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin.

Projects

100% Berlin reloaded
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Chinchilla Arsehole, eyey
Helgard Haug

Feast of Food
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Granma. Trombones from Havana
Stefan Kaegi

Bubble Jam
Daniel Wetzel

Uncanny Valley
Stefan Kaegi

win > < win
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Situation Rooms
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

+ More projects

Audio / Video

Audio - Review
Helgard Haug im Corsogespräch mit Christoph Reimann / 20.12.2019 / Deutschlandfunk

Audio - Review
SWR2 am Morgen / 20.12.2019 / Daniel Wetzel über 20 Jahre Rimini-Protokoll: Spannend, von Menschen „überrascht zu werden”

Audio - Review
Daniel Wetzel im Gespräch mit Susanne Burkhardt / Rang I / Beitrag vom 23.11.2019

Press comments

“Philosophical exercise from a robot performer ”
Natasha Tripney
25.02.2022 / The Stage

Review: Uncanny Valley (Battersea Arts Centre)
Theo Moore
24.02.2022 / the-crumb.com

Uncanny Valley, Battersea Arts Centre
Mary Pollard
24.02.2022 / everything-theatre.co.uk

Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play – starring an animatronic robot
Natasha Tripney
21.02.2022 / The Guardian

Eco-Visionaries review – the salt flats will die and the jellyfish shall rise
Oliver Wainwright
21.11.2019 / www.theguardian.com

“I have a clown in my head that's bugging me”
Bernd Noack
12.04.2019 / Spiegel online

“I Have a Buffoon in My Head Annoying Me”
Bernd Noack
12.04.2019 / Spiegel online

„Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas“ at Schauspiel Frankfurt
Shirin Sojitrawalla
12.04.2019 / www.deutschlandfunk.de

Sledge-Hammer
Eva-Elisabeth Fischer
17.10.2018 / www.sueddeutsche-zeitung.de

Step into the global arms trade in Luminato’s Situation Rooms
Simon Houpt
14.06.2016 / The Globe and Mail

The Situation Rooms is an immersive journey, opening the fourth wall between spectator and performer
Mike Doherty
14.06.2016 / National Post

What it's like to play a real life video game in Toronto
Amy Grief
13.06.2016 / blog TO

Situation Rooms immerses audiences into the international arms trade: review
Carly Maga
11.06.2016 / The Star

Choose your weapon
Linus Ignatius
10.12.2014 / Exberliner

Situation Rooms by Rimini Protokoll – review
Vicky Frost
18.02.2014 / the guardian

Situation sucks you in
Stephen Bevis
10.02.2014 / The West Australian

Art to promote empathy
Eva-Maria Magel
31.10.2013 / FAZ

In the body of the soldier, in the soul of the war victims
Kaspar Heinrich
21.08.2013 / Spiegel online

+ More articles

Foreign language press

“Philosophical exercise from a robot performer ”
Natasha Tripney
25.02.2022 / The Stage

Review: Uncanny Valley (Battersea Arts Centre)
Theo Moore
24.02.2022 / the-crumb.com

Uncanny Valley, Battersea Arts Centre
Mary Pollard
24.02.2022 / everything-theatre.co.uk

Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play – starring an animatronic robot
Natasha Tripney
21.02.2022 / The Guardian

Das Spiel vom Antworten
Patrick Bahners
13.01.2020 / FAZ

Die beste Performance ist das Leben
Peter Laudenbach
09.01.2020 / sueddeutsche.de

Was, wenn die Qualle siegt?
Katrin Bettina Müller
26.12.2019 / taz.de

Angriff der Gegenwart
PATRICK WILDERMANN
20.12.2019 / www.tagesspiegel.de

Die Lust des Blicks in eine unbekannte Welt
Tom Mustroph
20.12.2019 / zitty.de

Vom Aufleuchten der Wirklichkeit
Esther Boldt
12.12.2019 / https://www.nachtkritik.de/

Eco-Visionaries review – the salt flats will die and the jellyfish shall rise
Oliver Wainwright
21.11.2019 / www.theguardian.com

“I have a clown in my head that's bugging me”
Bernd Noack
12.04.2019 / Spiegel online

“I Have a Buffoon in My Head Annoying Me”
Bernd Noack
12.04.2019 / Spiegel online

„Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas“ at Schauspiel Frankfurt
Shirin Sojitrawalla
12.04.2019 / www.deutschlandfunk.de

Sledge-Hammer
Eva-Elisabeth Fischer
17.10.2018 / www.sueddeutsche-zeitung.de

Step into the global arms trade in Luminato’s Situation Rooms
Simon Houpt
14.06.2016 / The Globe and Mail

The Situation Rooms is an immersive journey, opening the fourth wall between spectator and performer
Mike Doherty
14.06.2016 / National Post

What it's like to play a real life video game in Toronto
Amy Grief
13.06.2016 / blog TO

Situation Rooms immerses audiences into the international arms trade: review
Carly Maga
11.06.2016 / The Star

Choose your weapon
Linus Ignatius
10.12.2014 / Exberliner

Situation Rooms by Rimini Protokoll – review
Vicky Frost
18.02.2014 / the guardian

Situation sucks you in
Stephen Bevis
10.02.2014 / The West Australian

Art to promote empathy
Eva-Maria Magel
31.10.2013 / FAZ

In the body of the soldier, in the soul of the war victims
Kaspar Heinrich
21.08.2013 / Spiegel online

+ More articles

Theoretical Texts

Teatronika_02
Martí Sánchez-Fibla & Beatriz Liebe Masferrer
06.05.2019 / Teatronika_02

Unbekannte Räume, Grenzen und Schwellen
Benjamin Wihstutz
01.01.2015 / Jörn Schafaff/Benjamin Wihstutz (Hg.), Sowohl als auch dazwischen: Erfahrungsräume der Kunst, München: Wilhelm Fink 2015

Situation Rooms von Rimini Protokoll. Zum Verhältnis von Immersion und Distanz
Miriam Dreysse
L’oeil immersif, Etudes théâtrales

by Rimini Protokoll

Reibung an der Realität
Stefan Kaegi
30.07.2019 / www.kultur-tipp.ch

Interviews

Mit anderen Augen sehen: Die immersive Installation Feast of Food von Rimini Protokoll
Barbara Gronau und Bettina Paust
10.10.2023 / Performance transformieren

Rimini Protokoll Interview for Eco-Visionaries
08.02.2021 / Catalogue Royal Academy of Arts London

Die Vereinsamung des Originals
Leonhard Hieronymi
01.06.2020 / Das Wetter

"Das Theater hält das aus"
Ronald Meyer-Arlt
24.03.2020 / www.haz.de

Agenda: Türen öffnen
Eva Behrendt und Franz Wille
28.02.2020 / Theater Heute (Nr. 3, März 2020)

Não atores e os sistemas: entrevista com Stefan Kaegi.
Giórgio Zimann Gislon
27.08.2019 / https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/conce/article/view/8656402/21888

"Tourette ist eine Rampensau"
Peter Laudenbach
30.05.2019 / Tip Berlin

Robokalypse now
JENS THOMAS
04.05.2019 / www.creative-city-berlin.de

Interview mit Thomas Melle „Der Roboter kriegt einfach nicht genug“
Doris Meierhenrich
03.03.2019 / berliner-zeitung.de

»Manche Zuschauer ­haben auch geweint«
Tom Mustroph
02.03.2019 / zitty.de

Interview with Stefan Kaegi about GRANMA. Trombones from Havana @FTA – Festival international de danse et théâtre à Montréal
Paul Lefebvre
31.01.2019

»Manche Zuschauer ­haben auch geweint«
Tom Mustroph
zitty.de

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