Rimini Protocol
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the theater label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have been working under this name in various constellations ever since. Piece by piece, they expand the means of theater to create new perspectives on reality.
Rimini Protokoll often develop their stage plays, interventions, scenic installations and radio plays with experts who have tested their knowledge and skills outside of the theater. They also like to translate spaces and social orders into theatrical forms. Many of their works are characterized by interactivity and a playful approach to technology.
For example, Rimini Protokoll turned the "Annual General Meeting" of Daimler shareholders into a play or staged "Call Cutta" and "Call Cutta in a Box", a transatlantic conversation between an employee of an Indian call center and one theatergoer each.
With "100% City", they created a production that is constantly re-contextualized worldwide and brings together 100 representatively selected citizens of the city on a theater stage. In their production "World Climate Conference", they mirrored the drama of the mammoth diplomacy to protect the Earth's atmosphere in the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. For the multiplayer video walk "Situation Rooms", they developed a hyper-realistic set in which 20 audience members walk in the footsteps of people whose biographies were shaped by weapons.
In "Utopolis", the audience is guided through the city by 48 portable loudspeakers - to chart a course towards shared or contradictory utopias.
Immersive and interactive works such as "win><win" or "Urban Nature" have recently been created for museums.
The pieces "All right. Good night." (2022), "Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas" (2020), "Situation Rooms" (2014) as well as "Wallenstein" (2016) and "Deadline" (2004) were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. Rimini Protokoll also received the Mülheim Dramatist Prize for "Karl Marx: Das Kaptial, Erster Band", the German Faust Theater Prize, the Grand Prix Theater of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the European Theater Prize, the Silver Lion of the Venice Theater Biennale as well as the German Radio Play Prize and the Radio Play Prize of the War Blind.
Rimini Protokoll's production office has been located in Berlin since 2003.
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