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Rimini Protokoll

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Rimini Protokoll
Formation2000
TypeTheatre group
PurposeTheatre
Location
Membership
  • Helgard Haug
  • Stefan Kaegi
  • Daniel Wetzel
Websiterimini-protokoll.de

Rimini Protokoll is a German theatre group founded after 2000 by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel. They create stage plays, interventions, scenic installations, and radio plays. Many of their works are characterized by interactivity and a playful use of technology.[1]

Background and Methods

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Rimini Protokoll is also known as the “label” for the works that have emerged from the collaboration between the three artists Haug, Kaegi and Wetzel.[2][3] The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at University of Giessen, Hesse, Germany.[4] They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.[5] They develop their works in different constellations, sometimes all of them work together, sometimes only one or two, sometimes they cooperate with 'outsiders'.[6] Typical for their work is that they rarely work with trained actors. Rather they bring people into play which they call 'experts of the everyday'.[7] Their expertise lies in the specific knowledge and experience they convey at the stage based on their social role in 'real life' rather than in acting skills.[8] Often, the works of Rimini Protokoll use media technology to transport "life outside of theatre onto the stage".[9] In a similar vein, Rimini Protokoll also uses public spaces or spaces with certain representative function, such as a court room or a defunct parliamentary building (in 'Deutschland 2') to demonstrate the theatrical qualities of "real world settings".[10] Their work is therefore often labelled 'documentary theatre'[11] and Rimini Protokoll is internationally considered one of the most prominent participatory theatre companies that employs digital technologies.[12]

Awards and recognition

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Literature and video

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Literature

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  • Schipper, Imanuel and Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel. Rimini Protokoll 2000–2020. English, hardcover, 2,000 photographs, excertps from more than 80 works. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz Koenig, 2021. ISBN 978-3-7533-0048-1
  • Rimini Protokoll: Situation Rooms Program book in English (PDF download)
  • Gomila, Andreu: Rimini Protokoll, escultors del temps / Sculptors of Time, Barcelona, Editions CCCB vol.105, 2021 ISBN 978-84-09-31912-1
  • Malzacher, Florian and Miriam Dreysse. Experts of the Everyday: The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-89581-187-6
  • Deiters, Franz-Josef. Vielleicht 'Ins Licht rücken? Oder 'Türen öffnen. Rimini Protokolls Theater des Alltags. In: Franz-Josef Deiters: Neues Welttheater?: Zur Mediologie des Theaters der Neo-Avantgarden. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2022, pp. 21–54. ISBN 978-3-503-20998-9 (print); ISBN 978-3-503-20999-6 (ebook)

Video portraits

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References

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  1. ^ "Wunder, wirklich wahr" [A Real Miracle]. tagesspiegel.de (in German). 24 November 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  2. ^ Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 153.
  3. ^ "Rimini Protokoll" [Rimini Protokoll]. cccb.org. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  4. ^ Jantschek, Thorsten (26 February 2013). "In dieser Schule lernt man, mit der Wirklichkeit zu spielen" [In This School, You Learn to Play with Reality]. faz.net (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Wir alle sind Spezialisten" [We Are All Specialists]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 17 February 2004. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  6. ^ Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 153.
  7. ^ Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 154.
  8. ^ Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 154.
  9. ^ Quote by Helgard Haug in Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 154.
  10. ^ See e.g. Daniela Hahn: Performing Public Spaces, Staging Collective Memory in: TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press). Fall 2014, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p. 27-38.
  11. ^ Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153 - 160, at 154.
  12. ^ Zofia Smolarska: Towards New Forms of Participatory Theatre. in: Theatre Forum. 2018, Issue 53, p. 84-91, at 84.
  13. ^ "Rimini Protokoll: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol.1".
  14. ^ "Nachtkritik". Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  15. ^ "Europe Theatre Prize – XII Edition – XII Edition Europe Theatre Prize". archivio.premioeuropa.org. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  16. ^ "Marx on the Petersberg".
  17. ^ "17th Art Division Excellence Award (Interactive art)".
  18. ^ "Schweizer Grand Prix Theater / Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2015" (PDF).
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