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The reinterpretation of urban space into a playing field
© Moritz Walliser
23 Feb 2024
The project "Overcome Reality Young Star Edition" – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program – works with its participants to seek new paths into their own city and interweaves different parts of Hamburg through movement. The partners Kunstwerk e.V., Parkour Creation and Kulturagent*innen Hamburg have joined forces to achieve this. Rica Blunck, an artist involved in the project, shares her impressions.
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Peatland – Theater on a train
© Juliane Lenssen, Jens Erwin Siemssen
16 Feb 2024
The ensemble Das Letzte Kleinod has been performing theater in their ocean blue train for many years. For the youth project Peatland – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste within the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program – they teamed up with the Deinster Bahnhof development association and the Elbe-Weser Railroads and Transport Company and invited children and young people, both those with and without experience as refugees, to explore the surrounding area on their train. Artists Jens-Erwin Siemssen and Juliane Lenssen share their experiences from the project.
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The Kulturkolchose theater workshop
© Heike Sählbrandt, Wanda Möller
05 Feb 2024
There was plenty of demand from young people for local cultural activities. The Kulturkolchose Lehsten association, together with the Möllenhagen parish and the Wendorf children's castle, quickly initiated two theater workshops – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program. Initiator Steffi Kühn reports on the two projects.
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Seven Pilllars It Is…
© Benjamin Krieg
30 Jan 2024
The new support architecture of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. Elena Philipp in a conversation with the program director Steffen Klewar.
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"There are still many of us"
© Alexandra Polina
06 Dec 2023
At the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel, there was intense discussion about how to meet the challenges of the present. Many artists also offered their opinions on how to deal with right-wing populist politics and right-wing extremist dangers. An approach to resistant arts.
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Global Village Projects 2023 - Eine Dokumentation (Audiodeskription)
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Global Village Projects 2023 - Eine Dokumentation
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Confrontations with reality
© Dorothea Tuch
22 Nov 2023
Artistic director Wagner Carvalho, artist Magda Korsinsky, and dramaturge Fabian Larsson from Ballhaus Naunynstraße in conversation with Christine Wahl on the award of the Theaterpreis des Bundes 2023.
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New connections, new narrative forms
© Alexandra Polina
17 Nov 2023
At the closing event of the Bundesweite Artist Labs 2023 (B.A.L.L.), it became clear just how committed the independent theater scene is to exchanging ideas with each other and with the audience – and how it cultivates mindful interaction with each other in challenging times.
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Thuringia? No problem!
© Dorothea Tuch
15 Nov 2023
The creative director and director Lizzy Timmers, the actress Pina Bergemann and the dramaturge Hannah Baumann from the Theaterhaus Jena in conversation with Christine Wahl about the award of the Theaterpreis des Bundes in the category of municipal and state theaters.
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"Theater is not an instruction manual"
© Festival El Aleph Teatro UNAM
14 Nov 2023
Rimini Protokoll presented the production "Konferenz der Abwesenden" at the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel. Annette Stiekele spoke to Daniel Wetzel, who, together with Stefan Kaegi and Helgard Haug, has been inviting audiences to exciting theatrical experiments for the last 20 years.
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With different eyes
© Alexandra Polina
13 Nov 2023
The debate about sustainability has long since reached the theater. In a lab presentation at the B.A.L.L., the kollektiv:proton showed just how flexibly the topic can be interpreted.
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The 360-degree view
© Dorothea Tuch
13 Nov 2023
Chamäleon's artistic director Anke Politz and managing director Hendrik Frobel in conversation with Christine Wahl about the award of the Theaterpreis des Bundes in the category "Private Theaters & Guest Performance Theaters".
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Welcome and Bienvenue: People formerly known as audience, Teilnehmer*innen, User*innen, Communities
© Alexandra Polina
08 Nov 2023
Eröffnungsrede des Artist Labs Gremiums beim B.A.L.L. – Bundesweites Artist Labor der Labore in Hamburg
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The Vibe of Leipzig
© Dorothea Tuch
07 Nov 2023
Anne-Cathrin Lessel, the creative director of LOFFT, and Sebastian Weber, choreographer and dancer of the Sebastian Weber Dance Company, in conversation with Christine Wahl on being awarded the Federal Theater Prize in the "Independent Production Houses" category.
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Stärkung der Kultur als Stärkung der Demokratie
© Alexandra Polina
30 Oct 2023
Das Kulturpolitische Metalabor „Transformationen von Publika und Kulturlandschaft“ im Rahmen des zweiten B.A.L.L. – Bundesweites Artist Labor der Labore auf Kampnagel in Hamburg.
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Theater der Leerzeichen
© Alexandra Polina
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Make a wish
© Pablo Hassmann
16 Oct 2023
Elisabeth Wellershaus spoke to three labs to discuss how theater can become a research space that investigates complex social needs.
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Encounters in the chaos of the present
© Elena Kaufmann
16 Oct 2023
When meeting spaces seem blocked as do the paths to cross-societal empathy: How can sociability be curated? Some labs have set out in search of answers.
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On Artist Labs, choreographies, pandemics, Reclam books and time
13 Oct 2023
How inclusive are theaters and audience spaces? The pandemic, Reclam books and a biennial in São Paulo provide our author Marny Garcia Mommertz with insightful answers.
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