Rimini Protokoll

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]

Rimini Protokoll
Rimini Protokoll, 2012
Formation2000
TypeTheatre group
Location
Membership
Helgard Haug
Stefan Kaegi
Daniel Wetzel
WebsiteOfficial website

Background

The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at University of Giessen, Hesse, Germany.[2] They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.[3]

They have been invited three times to Berliner Theatertreffen, Germany's most important festival featuring the 10 best performances of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Since 2003, their projects also take place within the framework of big national theatres like Vienna's Burgtheater or the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, as well as international festivals.

Method

Rimini Protokoll are often described as the inventors of a new form of documentary theatre, using performers who are not professional actors but rather experts or specialists in their particular spheres of life — professionals of a theatre of the real world. So, instead of presenting actors performing characters as parts of drama texts, they present people whom they find through elaborate research and casting procedures and with whom they develop theatre performances according to their abilities and skills in order to convincingly and strongly present themselves in front of national theatre crowds.

Call Cutta, one of their earlier works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India, providing the audience in Berlin with individual cellphone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg, Berlin, narrating the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionarist freedom fighter.

Awards and recognition
  • 2002 — Impulse prize for Shooting Bourbaki
  • 2005 — Politik im Freien Theater festival jury prize for Mnemopark
  • 2005 — nominated in Austria for the Nestroy Theatre Prize for Schwarzenbergplatz
  • 2007 — Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis and Publikumspreis for Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band
  • 2007 — Der Faust prize
  • 2007 — Hörspiel des Monats October for Peymannbeschimpfung
  • 2008 — Kulturnews Award - best play (3rd rank) for Breaking News
  • 2008 — Europe Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki - New Realities category
  • 2008 — Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden for Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band (also nominated for Peymannbeschimpfung)
  • 2009 — honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art for Call Cutta in a box
  • 2011 — Silver Lion in the 41st biennale of Venice
  • 2012 — Erste Saarbrücker Poetik-Dozentur for Drama
  • 2013 — Children's Choice Award der Ruhrtriennale for Situation Rooms
  • 2013 — Excellence Award at the 17th Japan Media Festival for Situation Rooms
  • 2014 — Hörspiel des Monats March for Qualitätskontrolle
  • 2014 — Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis/Stücke 2014 public prize for Qualitätskontrolle
  • 2014 — Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD for Qualitätskontrolle. Oder, warum ich die Räuspertaste nicht drücken werde
  • 2015 — Deutscher Hörbuchpreis der ARD for Qualitätskontrolle. Oder, warum ich die Räuspertaste nicht drücken werde
  • 2015 — Swiss Grand Prix of Theatre[4]
  • 2019 — Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD for Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas

Selected productions
  • 2000 – Kreuzworträtsel Boxenstopp (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Künstlerhaus Mousontum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  • 2001 – Apparat Berlin (Haug / Wetzel, Prater der Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany)
  • 2001 – Torero Portero (Kaegi, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Córdoba, Argentina)
  • 2002 – Shooting Bourbaki. Ein Knabenschiessen (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, luzerntheater Luzern, Switzerland; coproducing theatres in Switzerland, Germany, and Norway)
  • 2002 – Deutschland 2 (Haug / Ernst / Kaegi / Wetzel, Festival Theater der Welt, Bonn, Germany)
  • 2002 – Sonde Hannover (Haug / Ernst / Kaegi / Wetzel, Kröpcke-Hochhaus, Festival Theaterformen, Hannover, Germany)
  • 2002 – Matraca Catraca. Uma viagem REM (Kaegi, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Fundação Cultural Estado da Bahia e Empresa Farol da Barra, Salvador)
  • 2003 – Deadline (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg / Neu)
  • 2003 – The Midnight Special Agency (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium)
  • 2003 – Markt der Märkte (Haug / Wetzel, Theater Bonn, Germany)
  • 2004 – Zeugen! Ein Strafkammerspiel (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, schauspielhannover, Hanover, Germany)
  • 2004 – Hot Spots (Haug / Wetzel, Thesseum A Theatre for the Arts, Athen / Goethe-Institut Athens, Greece)
  • 2004 – Sabenation. Go Home & Follow the News (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brüssel / Festival Theaterformen, Braunschweig, Germany)
  • 2004 – Brunswick Airport. Weil der Himmel uns braucht (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Festival Theaterformen, Braunschweig, Germany)
  • 2004 – Schwarzenbergplatz (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Kasino im Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria)
  • 2005 – Call Cutta. A mobile phone theatre (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Star Theatre / Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe-Institut) Kolkata, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin)
  • 2005 – Mnemopark (Kaegi, Theater Basel, Switzerland)
  • 2005 – Wallenstein (Haug / Wetzel, 13. Internationale Schillertage, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Germany)
  • 2005 – Cameriga. A Metabureaucracy (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Festival Homo Novus, Riga, Latvia)
  • 2006 – Blaiberg und sweetheart19 (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin)
  • 2006 – The Police Training Opera und The Memory Job (Wetzel, X-Wohnungen Caracas, Venezuela)
  • 2006 – Cargo Sofia-X (Kaegi, div. Orte in Europa, UA – Theater Basel, Switzerland)
  • 2006 – Karl Marx – Das Kapital, Band 1 (Haug / Wetzel, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus u.a.)[5]
  • 2007 – Breaking News (Haug / Wetzel, HAU Berlin, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and others)
  • 2008 – 100 percent Berlin (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, HAU Berlin)
  • 2008 – Call Cutta in a Box (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Calcutta, Berlin, Zurich, Mannheim, Paris, Helsinki, Wrocław, Dublin and others)
  • 2008 – Black Tie (Haug / Wetzel, HAU Berlin, Wiener Festwochen, Gessnerallee Zürich])
  • 2009 – Hauptversammlung (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, ICC / Hebbel am Ufer Berlin)
  • 2009 – Radio Muezzin (Kaegi, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin)
  • 2009 – Der Zauberlehrling (Haug / Wetzel, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Hebbel am Ufer)
  • 2009 – Heuschrecken (Kaegi, Schauspielhaus Zürich)
  • 2009 – "Vung Bien Gioi (Haug / Wetzel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
  • 2009 – Sicherheitskonferenz (Kaegi, Münchner Kammerspiele)
  • 2010 – Best Before (Haug / Kaegi, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Vancouver, Brighton Festival, Hebbel am Ufer, Luminato – Toronto, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève u.a.)
  • 2010 – 100 Percent Vienna (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Wiener Festwochen)
  • 2010 – Prometheus in Athens (Haug / Wetzel, Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2010, Herodes Atticus, 15.7.2010)
  • 2010 – Ciudades Parallelas – Parallel Cities (Arias / Kaegi, Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, WP 17.9.2010)
  • 2010 – Mr Dağacar and the Golden Tectonic of Trash (Haug / Wetzel, garajistanbul, WP 15.10.2010)
  • 2011 – Outdoors (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, National Theatre of Wales, Aberystwyth, WP 25.2.2011)
  • 2011 – Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Kaegi, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, UA 27.4.2011)
  • 2011 – 50 Aktenkilometer / (50 kilometers of files) (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Hebbel am Ufer, DeutschlandRadio Kultur, UA 17.5.2011)
  • 2011 – 100 Percent Karlsruhe (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Bundesverfassungsgericht /supreme court)
  • 2011 – 100 Percent Cologne (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Schauspiel Cologne, WP 10.11.2011)
  • 2011 – Herrmann's Battle (Haug / Wetzel, Kleist-Jahr 2011, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Comédie de Reims) WP – 20.10.2011 Frankfurt/Oder
  • 2012 – Lagos Business Angels (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, HAU Berlin, Kunstenfestival des Arts Brussels, Goethe Institute) WP – 27.03.2012 Berlin
  • 2012 – 100 Percent Melbourne (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, City of Melbourne) WP 04.05.2012 Melbourne City Hall
  • 2012 – 100 Percent Braunschweig (Wetzel, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Großes Haus, Festival Theaterformen, WP 31.05.2012)
  • 2012 – 100 Percent London (Haug / Kaegi, The Hackney Empire, LIFT Festival, WP 29.06.2012)
  • 2012 – A public Enemy in Oslo (Haug / Wetzel, National Theaater Oslo, Ibsen Festival, WP 23.08.2012)
  • 2012 – 100% Zürich (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Theater Gessnerallee 18. -21., 24.-27. Oktober 2012)
  • 2013 – 10 Aktenkilometer (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Sächsischer Landesbeauftragte für Stasi-Unterlagen)
  • 2013 – Remote City (Kaegi)
  • 2013 – Qualitätskontrolle (Haug / Wetzel, Staatstheater Stuttgart / Spielstätte NORD Juni 2013)
  • 2013 – Situation Rooms (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Ruhrtriennale August 2013)
  • 2014 – World Climate Change Conference (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Deutsches SchauspielHaus Hamburg, November 2014)
  • 2015 – Homevisit Europe (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, House on Fire, UA Mai 2015)
  • 2015 – Remote Karlsruhe (Kaegi, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, UA Juni 2015)
  • 2015 – Evros Walk Water (Wetzel, TAK Liechtenstein, Schloßmediale Werdenberg, UA Mai 2015)
  • 2015 – 100% Penang (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Georgetown Festival 01.08. - 02.08.2015)
  • 2015 – Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, Band 1 & 2 (Haug / Wetzel, Kunstfest Weimar / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, UA September 2015)
  • 2015 – 100% Yogyakarta (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Concert Hall, Taman Budaya 31.10. - 01.11.2015)
  • 2016 – 100% São Paulo (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Teatro Municipal / MITsp 06. – 07.03.2016)
  • 2016 – Truck Tracks Ruhr (Haug / Begrich / Kaegi / Karrenbauer, Oberhausen, Urbane Künste Ruhr 21.04. – 10.05.2016)
  • 2016 – 100% Salford (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Salford, The Lowry 07. – 08.05.2016)
  • 2016 – 100% Brisbane (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Brisbane, Museum of Brisbane 15.07.2016 – 15.12.2017)
  • 2016 – Nachlass – Pièces sans personnes (Kaegi / Huber, Lausanne, Théâtre Vidy 14. – 24.09.2016)
  • 2016 – Brain Projects (Haug / Wetzel, Hamburg, Deutsches SchauspielHaus 18. – 22.09.2016)
  • 2016 – Top Secret International (Staat 1) (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, München, Münchner Kammerspiele / Glyptothek München 10. – 18.12.2016)
  • 2017 – App Recuerdos (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel / Begrich, Santiago de Chile, Festival Santiago a Mil 07. – 22.01.2017)
  • 2017 – Hausbesuch USA (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Santa Barbara, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara 20.01.2017)
  • 2017 – City as Stage (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Santa Barbara, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara 22.01. – 30.04.2017)
  • 2017 – Evros Walk Water 1&2 (Wetzel, Athen, Onassis Cultural Centre 03. – 08.05.2017)
  • 2017 – Gesellschaftsmodell Großbaustelle (Staat 2) (Kaegi, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 12. – 13.05.2017)
  • 2017 – 100% Montréal (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Montréal, FTA 25. – 28.05.2017)
  • 2017 – Cargo Moscow (Kaegi / Karrenbauer, Moscow, Impresario Feodor Elutine 05.07. – 22.09.2017)
  • 2017 – 100% Marseille (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Marseille, Festival Marseille 30.06. – 02.07.2017)
  • 2017 – Träumende Kollektive. Tastende Schafe (Staat 3) (Wetzel, Dresden, Schauspielhaus Dresden 23.09. – 27.10.2017)
  • 2017 – Home Visit: Brasil em casa (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Rio de Janeiro, TEMPO Festival 16. – 22.10.2017)
  • 2018 – Weltzustand Davos (Staat 4)(Haug / Kaegi, Zürich, Schauspielhaus Zürich 12. – 25.01.2018)
  • 2018 – Cargo Congo-Lausanne (Kaegi, Lausanne, Théatre Vidy-Lausanne 01.02. – 23.03.2018)
  • 2018 – 100% Stellenbosch (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Stellenbosch, Woordfees / HB Thom Theatre 23. – 25.02.2018)
  • 2018 – Staat 1-4 (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) 01. – 25.03.2018)
  • 2018 – Home Visit Australia (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Gold Coast, Bleach Festival 29.03. – 07.04.2018)
  • 2018 – DO's & DON'Ts (Begrich / Haug / Karrenbauer, Berlin, HAU Hebbel am Ufer 03. – 30.05.2018)
  • 2018 – 100% Voronezh (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Voronezh, The Voronezh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet 06. – 08.06.2018)
  • 2018 – 100% Klagenfurt (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Klagenfurt 09. – 10.06.2018)
  • 2018 – Unheimliches Tal / Uncanny Valley] (Kaegi, Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele 04.10. – 15.11.2018)
  • 2019 – 100% Lissabon (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Lisbon, Culturgest Lisbon 19. – 20.01.2019)
  • 2019 – Play* Europeras (1&2) (Wetzel, Wuppertal, Oper Wuppertal 02.02. – 06.04.2019)
  • 2019 – Granma. Posaunen aus Havanna (Kaegi, Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater 21.03. – 23.03.2019)
  • 2019 – Feast of Food (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Brüssel, Kasteel van Gaasbeek 07.04. – 28.07.2019)
  • 2019 – Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas (Haug, Frankfurt a. M., Bockenheimer Depot 11. – 13.04.2019)
  • 2019 – Utopolis (Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel, Manchester, MIF – Manchester International Festival 10. – 13.07.2019)
  • 2019 – Cargo Texas-Toulouse (Kaegi, Théâtredelacité - CDN Toulouse Occitanie 24.09. – 25.10.2019)

Audio Plays

Literature
  • Malzacher, Florian and Miriam Dreysse. Experts of the Eyeryday: The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-89581-187-6

References
  1. "Wunder, wirklich wahr" [A Real Miracle]. tagesspiegel.de (in German). 24 November 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  2. "In dieser Schule lernt man, mit der Wirklichkeit zu spielen" [In This School, You Learn to Play with Reality]. faz.net (in German). 26 February 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  3. "Wir alle sind Spezialisten" [We Are All Specialists]. nzz.ch (in German). 17 February 2004. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  4. "Eine Hommage an die Wirklichkeit" [A Tribute to Reality]. nzz.ch (in German). 28 May 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. "Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage". theguardian.com. 9 November 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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