In 1931, two years before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer wrote the play Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, criticizing German militarism and authoritarianism. But in 1925 – when the NDSAP was re-founded, Hitler published his manifesto Mein Kampf and started to form a new movement that would later bring him to power – Zuckmayer premiered with Der fröhliche Weinberg a rough and light soap opera about intrigues and drunken love affairs in a farmers family. 

Ragni Halle, Jakob Schnack Krog, Gregers Krogsleiven-Hansen and Simon Zeller take the play Der Fröhliche Weinberg as a starting point to examine on the notion of "fun" while facing the rising of new far right movements in their home countries Norway, Denmark, Poland and Germany.

Ragni Halle, Jakob Schnack Krog, Gregers Kroksleiven-Hansen & Simon Zeller

Supported by Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg and Kulturamt Giessen

• Performance
• Premiere

https://www.theaternebendemturm.de

Performances

Premiere: 23.10.21, Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg, 21:00 Uhr (50min) 
Pre-Showing: 21.10.21, tba, 20:00 Uhr

Artistic direction, Performance: Florence Ruckstuhl, Nora Schneider
Dramaturgy, artistic collaboration: J.F. Schmidt-Colinet
Pyrotechnics, props: Mirjam Scheerer
Scenography: Mai Gogishvili
Lightdesign, technical direction: Thomas Giger
Outside Eye: Katharina Germo

• Performance

Performances

• 31.8.2021 - 9pm, Treibstoff Theatertage Basel 2021 Roxy Birsfelden (Muttenzerstrasse 6, 4127 Birsfelden)
• 3.9.2021 - 9pm, Treibstoff Theatertage Basel 2021 Roxy Birsfelden (Muttenzerstrasse 6, 4127 Birsfelden) 
• 4.9.2021 - 9pm, Treibstoff Theatertage Basel 2021 Roxy Birsfelden (Muttenzerstrasse 6, 4127 Birsfelden)

hungry eyes festival goes into the next round! The team of 13 cultural practitioners, theatre-makers and cineastes has made it their goal to interrogate the intersection between film, performance and installation art and is looking forward to the third and for the very first time ONLINE edition of hungry eyes festival from February 5th-7th 2021 on https://hungryeyesfestival.de/

This year over 770 submissions for short films, installation art works and performances from 62 countries reached the digital mailbox of the festival in the Hessian university city. In a collective process over the period of three months the entire team reviewed, sighted and discussed all the works and finally put together a program with over 40 participating artists* and collectives for hungry eyes festival 2021.

The complete program with all artistic contributions is presented in detail on our website: https://hungryeyesfestival.de/

Thanks to the support of numerous institutions such as HessenFilm und Medien GmbH, the Giessen Cultural Office, the Hessian Film and Media Academy, the Giessen Cultural Foundation and the Hessen Theater Academy, hungry eyes festival is once again able to offer free access to art and culture regardless of admission fees. Subscribe to our telegram-channel for updates and specific announcement of the program: t.me/hungryeyesfestival

With: Elena Giffel, Anne Mahlow, Herbert Graf, Leonie Kopineck, Eva Streit, Eva Kirsch, Nikolas Stäudte, Svenja Polonji, Amélie Haller, Sophia Scherer, Maren Küpper, Linda Gottwald, Anja Schneidereit

Performances

• 5.-7. Februar 2021 /// the internet: hungryeyesfestival.de

Laura Maria Bernhardt, Olga Popova, Paula Regine Erb

• Performance

Performances

• 12.08.21, 7pm, LAB Frankfurt (Schmidtstraße 12, 60326 Frankfurt am Main)
• 13.08.21, 6pm, LAB Frankfurt (Schmidtstraße 12, 60326 Frankfurt am Main)
• 13.08.21, 8pm, LAB Frankfurt (Schmidtstraße 12, 60326 Frankfurt am Main)

Konzept: Janis Jirotka, Reyhaneh Scharifi, Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn, Shahab Anousha und Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders / Dramaturgische Mitarbeit und Produktionsassistenz: Max Mandery / Performance:Shahab Anousha, Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders und Janis Jirotka / Film: Reyhaneh Scharifi / Filmassistenz: Linus Kirbschus Gesch / Technik und Lichtdesign: Sönke Christian Herm Research: Reyhaneh Scharifi, Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn, Janis Jirotka, Michaela Jirotka und die Interviewpartner*innen

• Performance

Sommer in Gießen, Adoleszenz im Kino. Ein Gefühl des in-der-Luft-Hängens, der schwebenden Langeweile und des Verharrens in dem Moment vor dem großen Etwas, alles geprägt von der omnipräsenten schwülen Leere ebenjenes Sommers. Ein filmisches Nachspüren dieses Schwebezustands im Augenblick absoluter Sprachlosigkeit.

a film by Eva Kirsch and Max Smirzitz
with Amélie Haller, Carla Wyrsch, Caterina Pfeffer, Frithjof Gawenda, Herbert Graf, Luis August Krawen, Marita Landgrebe, Maximilian Paier, nikolas Stäudte, Noemi Spano, Roman Kuskowski and Svenja Polonji
with music by La Sabotage and No_4mat
a schön und vielversprechend production

• Film

Performances

23.10., Kinocenter Gießen, 9pm

• Performance Film 
• Premiere

Performances

4.-6. June, 8pm Studio Naxos Website: https://studionaxos.de/programm/mimicreatures-premiere/

Do you ever get this strange feeling that you are not alone, never really alone? That some dreams can become too familiar, that most places are already visited and can only be returned to. That you might sometimes not recognize yourself in the mirror, that it can be easier to see yourself in someone else. In »more than one«, four performers explore the boundaries between things too familiar and completely unknown, examine the space within regularly interrupted solitude and a collectivity that is never really accomplished, surfing on the rhythms created in collaboration between difference and sameness. In sharing the stories of the pasts, futures, and presents of the parallel universes, their reality subsides into daydreaming.

Concept, choreography, performance: Amélie Haller, Herbert Graf, Nastya Dzyuban, René Alejandro Huari Mateus  Stage and costumes: Nikolas Stäudte Stage and light: Marina Rengel Lucena Dramaturgy: Liza Spivakovskaya Camera: Svenja Polonji, Nikolas Stäudte

We want to thank Livia Andrea Piazza and Bojana Kunst for their mentorship and support as well as our dear colleagues and friends who came to see our rehearsals for their beautiful precious thoughts and feedback.

Performance developed in cooperation with the festival 21. Internationale Schillertage / Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hessian Theatre Academy and supported by the Cultural Office of the city of Gießen.

• Performance
• Final piece

Performances

22.6.21 at 20 o'clock / Online / Nationaltheater Mannheim / the stream of the piece will be available for 48 hours afterwards

29.6.21 / Gießen Probebühne II / the performance takes place in the frame of examination 30.6.21 / Gießen Probebühne II / the performance takes place in the frame of examination

“I, you, object, and this distance between all of us. I ask: which entity is displaying which? This distance we relate across. This distance from which we become conspicuous to one another. This attention we give one another. This ever-shifting attention we attend to while being in attendance. This attending to something together. An attendance in construction.” 

MA CuP student, Lee Mun Wai, performs an exam version of his final Master Piece from 21 to 24 January 2021. Due to the ongoing strict corona regulations regarding working conditions at the university, this will be a by-invitation-only event. please email Mun Wai directly enquire about invitations to this presentation. 

Choreography, Performance: Lee Mun Wai
Dramaturgical Assistance: Jee Chan
Fabric-Thing Design: Dinu Bodiciu.
Lighting Design: Anna Rouhu
Lighting, Production Advice: Patrick Faurot

On Display is a cooperation between Lee Mun Wai, Mousonturm and the MA Choreography and Performance within the frame of the Hessian Theatre Academy (HTA).

21., 22., 23., 24.01.2021. 18.30hr. ATW Probebühne 2, Gießen

• Performance
• Final piece / Master performance

(c) JEE CHAN

On July 9 and 10, 2021, the final presentation of the seminar "eine Zukunft die wir wollen jetzt und hier performen" will take place.
There will be performative installations to see and experience in the public space of Giessen.

Ariana Battaglia
Judith Bethke
Lisa Birkenbach
Melina Brinkmann
Johannes Demmler
Mathis Kiessling
Ruth Süpple
Maret Zeino-Mahmalat
&
katze und krieg

• Performance
• Installation

Performances
9 & 10.07., public space, Gießen

In day-to-day understanding, to fail is to have a lack of success, deficiency of desirable qualities or being in a state of “not functioning”. To fail would also stand for disappointing oneself or others, and not achieving someone’s goals. To fail is therefore a consequence of a pre-existing right or wrong. Project.Fail is a piece composed by two humans, one machine and multiple viewers. Somewhere on borders between the virtual and analog worlds, the performers behave sometimes as humans and sometimes as avatars in a game of losing/gaining power and control. By relating to each other as well as to the invisible machine, they propose a situation for questioning the ways humanity lives and the choices that brought us to our current crises and failures.

Language: English

Concept and Performance: Alice Nogueira und Ana Clara Montenegro
Dramaturgy: Alice Nogueira
Voice off: Sven Rausch
Camera and video-editing: Talisa Frenschkowski und Simon Lenzen
Light design: Carina Premer
Sound-recording: Jannis Wulle
Sound-editing: Felix Schwarzrock
Assistant director of filming: Rodrigo Andreolli
Photo: Talisa Frenschkowski

• Performance

Performances

In this performance, the coming together of people is simulated as an emergency. Instead of preparing for an emergency, we meet to examine our coming together itself. We take apart gestures and positions and (re)assemble them anew. We sound out how we relate to each other and how we could relate to each other differently. A known situation becomes an unknown construction. Can we rehearse the serious case? 

Felix Falczyk, Johanna Herschel

The performance takes place as an exam only.

• Performance
• Final piece

Performance

29.04. 

In this performance, the coming together of people is simulated as an emergency. Instead of preparing for an emergency, we meet to examine our coming together itself. We take apart gestures and positions and (re)assemble them anew. We sound out how we relate to each other and how we could relate to each other differently. A known situation becomes an unknown construction. Can we rehearse the serious case? For the 21st International Schiller Days, the performance will be presented in a workshop film. Duration: approx. 1 hour The stream will be available online for 48 hours. A production by Felix Falczyk and Johanna Herschel in cooperation with the Internationale Schillertage 2021/ Nationaltheater Mannheim. Supported by the Hessian Theatre Academy.

Felix Falczyk, Johanna Herschel

• Online Presentation

Performances

20.06., 8pm, Stream 21. Internationale Schillertage

After a talk about the performance, the resuscitation training is transmitted on the radio.

Felix Falczyk, Johanna Herschel

• radio work

Multichannel Sound Performance.

In this acousmatic Wunderkammer of sound, we wander through bucolic landscapes, lost places, and after-hours sets. In the crackle of a record you hear a soft whisper trying to arouse you to buy a new tablet, the speaker whimpers in unison. A faceless face in between the wires. Bit phantom. All these moments will be lost in time, like.... - Granular synthetic raindrops, they pelt me.
CUT TO: An immortal Marlboro cowboy strolls through the Waste Lands of Caucasia. He inhales the smog of his cigarette©, holding it with thumb and index finger, thinking of Strawberry Fields. Vapor Noise.

This might not be the first time for you to hear something, but maybe to listen.

Frithjof Gawenda, Chiara Marcassa, Nathalie Schatz, Josephine Stamer und Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow

• Performance
• Final Piece (Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow)

Performances

21. & 22.07.21, Alte Kupferschmiede Gießen

Concept, Music, Camera and Postproduction: Sara Trawöger
Video, Light, Camera and Postproduction: Merthe Wulf
Choreography, Performance, Camera and Postproduction: Sharon Jamila Hutchinson
Stage and costume: Lisa Horvath
Vocals and Performance: Kristin Gerwien
Drums and Performance: Magdalena Gasser aka Sticky Lenz
Mixing: Frithjof Gawenda
Mastering: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
Productionsupport: Amélie Haller
Companion: Nikolas Stäudte

Online Premiere: 27.4.2021 20 Uhr (Livestream) 
Video on Demand: 28.4. - 4.5.2021 
Tickets: https://21765.reservix.de/events 
Ort: Digitaler Mousonturm https://www.mousonturm.de

Performances 

27.04. - 05.04., Digtaler Mousonturm 

How does it feel? 
How does it feel to live in a body that is mainly defined by others? 
How does it feel when you realize there is no possibility at all to sneak through the narrow columns of the cage built by the patriarchal societies’ beliefs? 
How does it sound? How does it look like?

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/569534238

Concept, music, camera and postproduction: Sara Trawöger
Video, light, camera and postproduction: Merthe Wulf
Choreografie, performance, camera and postproduction: Sharon Jamila Hutchinson
Stage and costume: Lisa Horvath
Vocals and performance: Kristin Gerwien
Drums and performance: Magdalena Gasser aka Sticky Lenz
Mixing: Frithjof Gawenda
Mastering: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
Production support: Amélie Haller
Companion: nikolas Stäudte

• Performance
• Festival
• Installation
• Dance
• Concert
• Film
• Music-Performance-Film
• Installation

Performances

• September, 4, FEMME* Festival Gießen, Prototyp

„At this moment I am playing theater to myself: I know for certain that I do not want to do anything“ (J.P. Sartre)

part of the initiative Plattform Plattform

Nina DeLudemann

• Performance, Festival

Performances

• 22.08.21, Milchsackfabrik Frankfurt a.M.