After studying cultural studies in Frankfurt Oder and cultural management in Santiago de Chile, she was project coordinator at Goethe-Institut Chile from 2010 to 2016, responsible for theatre, dance, international co-productions and artist residencies. She works freelance as a production manager and translator for the Chilean Ministry of Culture, the Free University of Berlin, the International Theatre Festival Santiago a Mil and is involved with Rayuela Kollektiv, an association which explores topics such as exile, migration and memory. Maitén has been working at Rimini Protokoll since 2017 and is responsible for company management together with Juliane Männel.
Evi Bauer studied Design for Performance at Wimbledon School of Art/University of the Arts London in 2006 and startet to work as a Stage Design Assistant at Münchner Kammerspiele. During that time she did further Studies in Fine Art at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and graduated in 2010. Since then until today she carried on to work there as a permanent Lecturer and Tutor in the Stage Design Course of Katrin Brack as well a in other Art Institutions.
Since 2009 she has been working as a Stage and Costume Designer in permanent collaborations with Rimini Protokoll, Sebastian Nübling, Miloš Lólić, Felix Rothenhäusler.
Studied art history, philosophy and cultural studies in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Between 2009 and 2014 he worked as a dramaturge at Schauspiel Hannover, where he directed the five-year plant theatre project "Die Welt ohne uns" (The World Without Us), and at Hebbel am Ufer, where he worked for the first time with Stefan Kaegi in Bodenprobe Kasachstan and Remote X. From 2014 dramaturg at the Gorki Theater Berlin, where he worked with directors such as Oliver Frljic, Marta Gornicka and Lola Arias, as well as chiefdramaturg of the festival Berliner Herbstsalon (15/17/19). Since 2020 dramaturge at the Ruhrtriennale for interdisciplinary projects.
Frank Böhle studied Applied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim. Since 2000 he has been engaged as a sound engineer for theaters and festivals, and freelances in the areas of sound design and music production for theater, film and audio drama. His body of work includes collaborations with Rimini Protokoll, RuhrTriennale, Schauspielhaus Bochum, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, WDR and SWR.
Sebastian Brünger studied Business Administration and Political Science in Mannheim and Baltimore. 2016 PhD at the HU Berlin on how German companies deal with their Nazi past. From 2004 he worked first as an assistant, from 2007 as a dramaturge for Rimini Protokoll and researched subjects and people for projects. Since 2016 he is a research associate at the Federal Cultural Foundation and manages the funding program "Doppelpass".
In addition to dance theatre productions, she worked in artist support and guest management for Tanz Im August, EFA - European Film Awards, the Italian Film Festival Berlin and the Berlinale.
Lara Fischer studied history in Munich and Bologna. She gained her first work experience at the Goethe Institute Nairobi in the cultural programme and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the department of visual arts and film. At Humboldt University Berlin, Lara completed the interdisciplinary Master's programme Culture and Religion. Since 2021 she has been working, among others, in the event as well as guest management for the Berlin International Film Festival and as a production manager for projects by Rimini Protokoll.
Mikko Gaestel is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Berlin. He studied Art and Media at University of the Arts Berlin and Fine Arts at Iceland Academy of the Arts Reykjavik, finishing with a Meisterschüler degree. He has been working for numerous international theatre projects, including Elmgreen & Dragset, Rimini Protokoll and Lola Arias.
His own works have been exhibited at institutions including Goethe Institute New York, Bremerhaven Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Future Gallery Berlin and Dumbo Arts Center New York.
His documentary feature debut »The Great Fortune« won the Grand Prize at Belgrade international Film Festival 2016.
He is part of the collective Expander (together with Lilli Kuschel and Stefan Schmied), for many projects from Rimini Protokoll they created the video documentary.
Katja Hagedorn wurde1976 in Hamburg geboren. Sie studierte Komparatistik, Anglistik und Germanistik in Mainz, Dublin und Berlin. Danach arbeitete sie als Regie- und Dramaturgieassistentin am Maxim Gorki Theater und am Deutschen Theater Berlin, wo sie auch erste Dramaturgien übernahm. Bei verschiedenen Produktionen in Schweden und Norwegen arbeitete sie mit dem schwedischen Dramatiker und Regisseur Lars Norén zusammen. Von 2009 bis 2013 war sie Dramaturgin am Schauspielhaus Zürich, wo sie unter anderem mit Barbara Frey, Karin Henkel, Daniela Löffner, Sebastian Nübling, Rimini Protokoll, Ruedi Häusermann, René Pollesch und Stefan Pucher zusammenarbeitete. Außerdem ist sie als Übersetzerin tätig und nimmt einen Lehrauftrag für Dramaturgie an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart und der Universität Luxemburg wahr. Seit 2013 arbeitet sie als freischaffende Dramaturgin, zum Beispiel am Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, dem Schauspielhaus Zürich, der Oper Amsterdam, dem Théâtre Vidy Lausanne, dem Berliner Ensemble oder beim Manchester International Festival. Eine regelmäßige Zusammenarbeit verbindet sie inbesonders mit Sebastian Nübling, Rimini Protokoll und Ruedi Häusermann.
Dominic Huber is a scenographer and works regularly as a project author of his own productions with actors, spaces and animated situations in theaters, museums or in real locations. He is particularly interested in the shifts in reality for spectators and visitors in the role of active observers. As a stage designer he works regularly with Toshiki Okada, Sebastian Nübling and Lola Arias. The intensive collaboration with Rimini Protokoll started 2008.
Marc Jungreithmeier ist ein Licht- und Videodesigner. Seine medialen Arbeiten reichen von Videoinstallationen, Videobespielungen von Theatrräumen in Performances, Schauspiel und Oper, Outdoor-Mapping-Projekten bis hin zu Animations- und Trickfilmen. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt in der Gestaltung von Theaterräumen durch Licht und Video.
Er studierte Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft an der Justus Liebig Universität in Gießen.
Marc Jungreithmeier war mehrfach an Produktionen von Rimini Protokoll beteiligt und entwickelte u. a. das Bühnenbild und Videodesign für die Produktionen „Qualitätskontrolle“ (2013) und „Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf Band I und II“ (2015).
Zudem zeichnete er sich für das Videodesign der Stücke „Chinchilla Arschloch, was was“ und „All right. Good night.“ von Helgard Haug verantwortlich. Beide Stücke zählten 2020 und 2021 zu den Gewinnern des Berliner Theatertreffens.
2017 wurde ihm der Musical-Theater-Preis für die Produktion „Der Tunnel“ im Bereich Bestes Bühnenbild verliehen.
Seit 2017 arbeitet Marc Jungreithmeier unter dem Label STUDIO6, das sich in den Bereichen der Theater- und Museumsarbeit, übergreifender multimedialer Installationen, Konzerten, Shows- und Eventprojekten engagiert. Hierzu gehören auch Outdoor- und Fassadenprojektionen, sowie kommerzielle Werbespots, wie die Projektion auf die Fassaden im Backlot Babelsberg für die den Werbespot „This is our Genesis“ von 2021.
He completed an education as a display artist with Karstadt in Saarbrücken, before moving to Berlin in February '89. Here he studied theatre studies and comparative literature at Freie Universität, while running the independent venue “Theaterdock in der Kulturfabrik” together with Gesine Danckwart and other students.
In 1998, he meets René Pollesch and becomes his assistant for the Heidi Hoh-trilogy at Podewil in Berlin. Together with Pollesch he moves to Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 2000, where, for three years, he works as the director's assistant of Stefan Pucher, Jan Bosse, Michael Laub, Luc Perceval and Jérôme Bel. Questions of representation and the (public) space move more and more into the centre of his interest.
A close collaboration with Stefan Kaegi for Cargo Sofia-Xbegins in 2005. For four years, Karrenbauer tours, together with two Bulgarian truck drivers, through Europe and the Middle East, before developing new versions for festivals in Tokyo, Singapore and the EXPO in Shanghai. Together with Kaegi and Lola Arias he implements the festival Ciudades Paralelas in Cork, Warsaw and Singapore and sets up Call Cutta in a Box in multiple cities.
Together with Aljoscha Begrich, Helgard Haug and Kaegi, he reactivates the Cargo-Truck as a mobile auditorium for Truck Tracks Ruhrand subsequently develops DO's & DONT's with Begrich and Haug. Since 2013, he sets up and adapts Kaegi's audiowalk Remote X in large and small cities around the world.
Juliane is a production manager and dramaturge who lives and works in Berlin. Since 2017 she's company manager of the Berlin based theatre-label Rimini Protokoll. Since 2008 she regularly works with Rimini Protokoll ("All right. Good Night.", "URBAN NATURE", "Chinchilla Arsehole, eyey", "CARGO X", "Bubble Jam" etc.) and the Swiss Set Designer Dominic Huber ("Hotel Savoy", “Waiting for the Barbarians", “Forever Yours”). In 2008 she produced the theatre festival “100 Grad Berlin” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, amongst others she was assisting Hans Werner Kroesinger, Hannah Hurtzig/Mobile Academy and Chris Kondek. Juliane Männel studied dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.
Renée is a trained event manager. Before her education, she worked for four years as a prompter at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and the Staatskapelle Weimar and developed the installation "Payback Box" as part of the Kunstfest Weimar. Her independent directing project at the D.A.S.Jugendtheater e. V. at stellwerk in Weimar, had previously led her to study art therapy. Since 2018, Renée has been working at Rimini Protokoll as tour manager and is in charge of organisation & administration.
Andreas Mihan studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and works as a writer, director, light and video artist. The aim of his documentary-fictitious works is to break up the view of actual events and to trace the contour of the real in the space of possibility by linking it with artistic questions.
Barbara Morgenstern is an electronic musician, composer and producer.
Since 1998 she has released a total of 9 records, most recently on the Berlin label Staatsakt, which were accompanied by numerous live performances, including a world tour with the Goethe Institute in 2003/2004. She has collaborated with Robert Wyatt, Robert Lippok, Bill Wells, Stefan Schneider, Hauschka, Lucrecia Dalt, Julia Kent, Gudrun Gut, T.Raumschmiere, Justus Köhncke and Station 17, among others.
From 2007 - 2021 she directed the "Choir of World Cultures" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, for which she composed, arranged and designed the programme.
She has worked continuously with Rimini Protokoll since 2012.
Nikolas Neecke a.o. Studies in Audio-Design in the "Elektronisches Studio" at the Highschool of Music in Basel with Diploma. Working as freelancer in Sounddesign, Composing and Production of music for different purposes so as Theater, Silent Movies, Videoinstallations, Fashionshows and Lectures. Realisation of interactiv Soundinstallations and Soundart that are presented under the label "SONOgames" and "useful_updates".
Cornelius Puschke ist Dramaturg, Autor und Dozent. Er absolvierte ein Studium der Kulturanthropologie und Germanistik und hatte Engagements am Maxim Gorki Theater und den Berliner Festspielen. Darüber hinaus war er Gastprofessor für Dramaturgie an der HAW Hamburg. Mit Rimini Protokoll entwickelt er seit 2007 Projekte.
studied German, English and American Studies as well as Media Cultural Studies in Düsseldorf, Prague and Cologne (Institute for Media Culture and Theater). After working at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and in addition to production assistances for various performing arts festivals (including Impulse Theater Festival since 2018), he lives and works in Berlin and is production manager for projects by Rimini Protokoll.
Grit Schuster is an interaction designer, game designer and video artist based in Berlin.
For Rimini Protokoll she designs and animates video contents and implements custom-tailored systems for protagonists or participants to interact with elements of the performance.
Louise Stölting studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim and social and economic communication at the UdK in Berlin.
After working periods at the Theater an der Parkaue, KOW Galerie, Pilecki Institute Berlin, Fusion Festival, Zuhören Festival for culture and politics by Sasha Waltz, Gutiérrez / Dietrich / Rugamba at Kampnagel and since 2011 programming the at.tension Festival of Kulturkosmos e.V., she joined Rimini Protokoll in February 2020 as production manager.
Ioanna Valsamidou studied Business Administration (BA), Psychology (MA) and Theatre.
Since 2011 she is working as a theatre creator, writer and dramaturg. Her phd. dissertation in Viadrina Europa Universitaet, is an experimental research on biographies and theatrical experiences, for which she wrote and co-directed the performances "I/The Gambler" (2016), and "Rouletenburg" (2017), with the participation of ex-addicts in gambling and their wives.
She co-founded and directs artistically since 2015, with Yolanda Markopoulou, the greek platform "mind the fact", an artistic laboratory project with vulnderable groups: refugees, homeless, juvenile offenders, ex-addicts, children living in shelters. This permanent work culmiates in presentations like an international festival "with real stories of people living amongst us, not always visible"- for 2017 funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.