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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 in 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]

Methods and organization

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Rimini Protokoll is a collaboration between the artists Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel.[2] The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen in Germany.[3] They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.[4]

A few characteristics typically apply to Rimini Protokoll productions:

  • the group works as an artist collective,[5][6] sometimes including all of them, sometimes only one or two, sometimes collaborating with "outsiders".[7] They use the name Rimini Protokoll as a common and recognizable label for their productions.[8][9]
  • organization around a protocol rather than a dramatic text, meaning a script that has been developed in rehearsals cooperatively and sets a loose framework for the performance[10]
  • Rimini Protokoll usually work with people they call "experts of the everyday".[11] This expertise is not associated with theatre, such as acting skills, but rather with a 'real life' competence or a profession that has shaped them[11][12] Examples include truckers, secret service agents, model train enthusiasts, police officers, etc. These people convey their experiences, stories, clothes, accents, and even specific habitual movements onstage.[11] This is seen as a key element of Rimini Protokoll's "new documentary theatre".[12]
  • use of media technology[11]
  • staging productions in representative locations or extending the stage to public spaces[13]

Awards and recognition

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Rimini Protokoll have several times been invited to the "10 best" of the theatre festival Berliner Theatertreffen, most recently with "All right. Good night." (2022)[22] and "Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye" (2020).[23]

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. ^ "Rimini Protokoll". cccb.org. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Wir alle sind Spezialisten" [We Are All Specialists]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 17 February 2004. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  5. ^ Smee, Jess (9 November 2006). "Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage". The Guardian. London, UK. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Interview with Rimini Protokoll". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  7. ^ Malzacher, Florian (2007). "Dramaturgies of care and insecurity: The story of Rimini Protokoll". In Dreysse, Miriam and Florian Malzacher (ed.). Experts of the Everyday. The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verlag Berlin. pp. 17–43 at 21. ISBN 978-3-89581-181-4.
  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 [1], pp. 153 – 160, at 153.
  9. ^ "Agenda: Türen öffnen" [Agenda: Opening Doors]. der-theaterverlag.de (in German). Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  10. ^ Malzacher, Florian (2007). "Dramaturgies of care and insecurity: The story of Rimini Protokoll". In Dreysse, Miriam and Florian Malzacher (ed.). Experts of the Everyday. The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verlag Berlin. pp. 17–43 at 20 f. ISBN 978-3-89581-181-4.
  11. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b Boenisch, PM (2008). "Other people live: Rimini protokoll and their 'theatre of experts'". Contemporary Theatre Review. 18 (1): 107–113. doi:10.1080/10486800701741543. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  13. ^ Aloy, Guillem (2018). "Species of Spaces in the theatre of Rimini Protokoll: a conversation with Helgard Haug [The City as Stage in Rimini Protokoll: a conversation with Helgard Haug]" (PDF). upcommons.upc.edu. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  14. ^ "Deutschlandfunk: Der Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis für "Das Kapital"" (in German). 16 June 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Rimini Protokoll: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 1".
  16. ^ "Nachtkritik". Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Europe Theatre Prize – XII Edition – XII Edition Europe Theatre Prize". archivio.premioeuropa.org. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  18. ^ "Marx on the Petersberg".
  19. ^ "La Biennale".
  20. ^ "17th Art Division Excellence Award (Interactive art)".
  21. ^ "Schweizer Grand Prix Theater / Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2015" (PDF).
  22. ^ "Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen 2022. The 10 selected productions".
  23. ^ "Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen 2020. The 10 selected productions".
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