Action theater Panoptikum

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The action theater Panoptikum (own spelling: action theater PAN.OPTIKUM ) is a theater ensemble based in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

In 1982 the group Panoptikum was founded by Nesa Gschwend and Frank Niemöller in Berlin with the aim of showing performances in public spaces. The name "Panoptikum" was derived from the Panoptikum, which was located very close to the place where it was founded in the 1920s, in which people were exhibited and exposed and exposed without their own consent. Already at the beginning Panoptikum presented human sculptures resp. himself at various festivals and in galleries. In 1983, after a long stay in Indonesia, Nesa Gschwend and Frank Niemöller realized their first large installation on the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg. For Nesa Gschwend, this installation also marked the beginning of the large wind figures, which for a long time had been a trademark of Panoptikum. In 1986 Nesa Gschwend left the group and returned to Switzerland and from then on devoted herself to her own solo performances and art projects.

After many independent theaters positioned themselves as a counter-model to the prevailing city theater culture in the 1960s and 1970s, another wave of theaters and street theaters was founded in Europe in the early 1980s . In Spain, for example, the group “ La Fura dels Baus ” emerged, in France the ensemble “ Royal de Luxe ” and in Amsterdam “ Dogtroep ”.

When Sigrun Fritsch and Ralf Buron joined the ensemble in 1988, the focus of the productions shifted. The model was now productions in public space, which took up ideas of the Bauhaus Dessau from the 1920s and were based on the connection between architecture and the performing arts. During this time, the first major productions were created, such as about Max Ernst , with which Panoptikum was invited to the Worldfest in Atlanta.

At the beginning of the 1990s the ensemble moved its theater to Freiburg im Breisgau. There, productions such as Love and Death , a staging of two baroque operas with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , and Bach's Christmas Oratorio laid the foundations for a further conceptual development.

In 1999 the ensemble merged with Nachtwerk from Stuttgart, a group of pyrotechnicians around Karl Rechtenbacher, and developed the street production Prometheus for the Goethe year . Together with the new ensemble member Matthias Rettner , productions for several thousand viewers were developed and performed. With these productions, the ensemble, which now has almost 40 people, has been guesting at major theater festivals in Europe and South America since 2003, including the Sziget Festival in Budapest, the Glastonbury Festival in England, the Tàrrega Festival in Spain and Caracas, Santiago de Chile , Bogotá, Guanajuato, Guadalajara.

Productions

  • IL CORSO, a production of the Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda , was performed between 2001 and 2007 in over 100 cities in Europe and South America.
  • ORPHEUS, a play about the failure of love, was commissioned by Gerard Mortier and premiered in 2004 at the RuhrTriennale .
  • The CIVIL warS, an opera by Philip Glass , was shown at the opening of the season in cooperation with the Freiburg Theater under the direction of Amélie Niermeyer .
  • BallGefühl, a football- themed production, was developed on behalf of the German government for the official arts and culture program for the 2006 FIFA World Cup ™ and made guest appearances in various cities with stadiums as well as in 2007 in Salamanca, Spain, and in 2009 in Zacatecas and Guanajuato, both Mexico.
  • Medea: Voices , a production of the novel by Christa Wolf, was authorized by the author and stagedin a coproduction in2007at the Freiburg Theaterunder the direction of Barbara Mundel .
  • A production of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff opened the Theater Basel season in September 2008 under the direction of Georges Delnon in the ancient theater of Augst / CH.
  • Transition , a production of the work by Wajdi Mouawad , the sun and the death can not face emerged in 2009 in cooperation with the Catalan stage designer Llorenç Corbella.
  • Dance theater The Crossing Lines Project from 2015 to 2018.

Awards

  • 2002: 1st prize for IL CORSO as the best outdoor production at the International Street Theater Festival in Holzminden
  • 2005: Baden-Württemberg Culture Prize (main prize, shared with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble )
  • 2006: 1st prize for ORPHEUS as the best outdoor production at the Tárrega Festival in Spain
  • 2008: Prize of the federal competition "Mixed Up" for cultural youth and child education for the project Being Tween

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