Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre-label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality.

Rimini Protokoll often develop their stage-works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology.

Hence, Rimini Protokoll declared the General Assembly of Daimler stock holders a theatre play or with Call Cutta and Call Cutta in a Box they set up a transatlantic conversation between a worker in an Indian call-centre and each audience member.

With 100% City they have created a word-wide ever newly contextualising work, where 100 statistically chosen inhabitants of the city gather on a theatre stage. Their production World Climate Conference mirrors the drama of the diplomatic efforts for the protection of the earth’s atmosphere at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg. For the multiplayer-video-walk Situation Rooms they built a hyperrealistic set in which the 20 audience members follow the tracks of people who’s biographies have been shaped by weapons.

In Utopolis the audience is guided through the city by 48 portable speakers – to set course for shared or contradicting utopias.

Recently, more and more immersive and interactive works have been created for museums, such as win><win and Urban Nature.

The pieces All right. Good night. (2022), Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye (2020), Situation Rooms (2014), Wallenstein (2006) and Deadline (2004), have been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. On top of that, Rimini Protokoll received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band, the German theatre award Der Faust, the Swiss Grand Award for Theatre, the European Theatre Award, the Silver Lion at the Theatre Biennale in Venice, as well as the German Radio Play Prize and the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden , the War Blinded Audio Play Prize.

Since 2003, the production office of Rimini Protokoll is in Berlin.

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Granma. Trombones from Havana
2019 Edition
24.09 – 06.10