Andcompany & Co.

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Andcompany & Co. (own spelling andcompany & Co. ) Is a post-dramatic theater / performance - collective , which was founded in 2003 by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma. Influenced by post-dramatic theater , her works often deal with historical-political topics in contemporary pop-cultural form.

history

The & Co. abbreviation is intended to indicate the openness of the collective to new collaborators from various artistic disciplines. For example, the author Bini Adamczak, the director and author Joachim Robbrecht or the visual artists Noah Fischer, Hila Peled and Jan Brokof joined them.

Her first success was the piece little red (play): 'herstory' in 2006. It is the first part of a trilogy about the history of the “short 20th century” ( Eric Hobsbawm ) between communism and anti-communism . The second part, Time Republic , premiered in 2007 for the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik shock . The third part is titled Mausoleum Buffo and was premiered in January 2009 in the "Year of Anniversaries" ( November revolution 1918/19, German state was founded twice in 1949, fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) at HAU 2 and invited to the Impulse 09 theater festival . In 2009, they developed a “lazy circus” with 16 young people for the Theaterformen festival : City Circus Zero Work . They call their piece West in Peace or the last summer of the Indians “4. Part ”of their communism trilogy, it is about“ socialist cowboys ”and German-German Indianists. In 2010 in Sao Paulo they developed a “Brazilianized Brecht” with Brazilian performers: FatzerBraz from Brecht & Co. At the beginning of 2011 they showed Pandaemonium Germanicum : Lenz in the Loop , based on the genius satire by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and the novel essay “Die Reise” by Bernward Vesper . For the Deutsches Theater Göttingen they adapted the films Wir Wunderkinder and To the Point, Sweets for the stage. With children they developed a Fatzer for children and the play Arche B. As a commentary on the Blackfacing debate, they developed the play Black Bismarck about the uncanny present of colonialism in Berlin Berlin conference . Her music theater piece Orpheus in der Oberwelt: A Smuggler Opera deals with the current refugee crisis and located it on the Evros River, which separates Greece and Turkey. This is where Orpheus' head swam after the Erynnias tore it apart. The radio version was performed live at Radio Play of the Month April 2014 and at the Belluard Festival in Friborg. The piece of Archipel Google: Big Dada Revue developed in Zurich combines Dadaism Cabaret Voltaire and “dataism” Big Data .

Work

theatre

  • 2003 prompter Du Mal - bar playing, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Plateaux Festival, Frankfurt / M.
  • 2004 for urbanites - after the big cities - theater performance , TAT (Theater am Turm), Frankfurt / M.
  • 2004 The Wherehouse - lecture performance in collaboration with the Raqs Media Collective - TAT (Theater am Turm), Frankfurt / M.
  • 2005 europe an alien - theater performance, UA Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL), Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf
  • 2006 Declaration of War - lecture performance, Dictionary of War, Muffathalle, Munich
  • 2006 Cosmic Communauts - lecture performance, homo futuris Festival, Theater Vooruit, Ghent (B)
  • 2006 revolutionary timing - site-specific performance, AT&T building, NY (US)
  • 2006 little red (play): 'herstory' - theater performance, UA Theater Gasthuis (NL)
  • 2007 States of the Union: EURORA - artists in residency at KunstenFESTIVALdesArts 07, Brussels (B)
  • 2007 HiB: Playtime! “End of drama, begin of game” - Performance, West Balkans, Budapest (HU)
  • 2007 Time Republik - site-specific performance, NY (US)
  • 2007 Time Republic - theater performance, premiere steirischerherbst, Graz (AU)
  • 2008 Showtime: trial & terror - Performance, UA Staatstheater Stuttgart (DE)
  • 2008 X-Kölln - X-Apartments , Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin
  • 2009 Mausoleum Buffo - theater performance, WP Hebbel-am-Ufer 2, Berlin (DE)
  • 2009 city ​​Circus Zero Work - theater performance with young people, Young Drama Hanover (DE)
  • 2009 Capital Letters - Lecture Performance, Theater Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2009 West in Peace or the last summer of the Indians - theater performance, WP Hebbel-am-Ufer 3, Berlin (DE)
  • 2010 FatzerBraz - theater performance , UA SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (BR)
  • 2010 Tropicalypse Now - lecture-concert, UA ICI, Berlin (DE)
  • 2011 Pandämonium Germanicum: Lenz im Loop - theater performance, WP Hebbel-am-Ufer 2, Berlin (DE)
  • 2011 Wunderkinder - play, premier at Deutsches Theater Göttingen (DE)
  • 2011 Fatzer for children - theater performance with children, WP Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim (DE)
  • 2011 Arche B. - Theater performance with children, WP Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2012 The (coming) uprising after Friedrich Schiller - Premiere Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburg (DE)
  • 2012 Black Bismarck previsited - lecture-concert, UA foreign affairs Festival, Berlin (DE)
  • 2012 Out of the dark, into the night (copy & taste) - Monolog - UA Monologfestival, Theater Discounter, Berlin (DE)
  • 2013 to the point! - Theater play - Premiere of the Deutsches Theater Göttingen (DE)
  • 2013 Black Bismarck - WP Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2014 The curse of Minerva or the insomnia of reason gives birth to monsters - lecture-concert, Volksbühne, Berlin (DE)
  • 2014 Sounds Like War: Declaration of War - lecture-concert, UA Theaterformen, Braunschweig (DE)
  • 2014 Orpheus in the Upper World: A Tug Opera - Premiere Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2015 Archipel Google: Big Dada Revue - UA Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich (SW)
  • 2015 Warpop Mixtape Fakebook Volxfuck Peace Off! 'Schland of Confusion , WP Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2016 2045: Müller in Metropolis , lecture-concert, WP Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2016 Not my Revolution, if ...: The stories of Angie O. , UA HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1), Berlin (DE)
  • 2017 Café Casablanca: Everybody comes to stay! , WP Young Drama Düsseldorf (DE)
  • 2017 The electorate: Fin de partie! , WP Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Dreikönigskirche (DE)
  • 2018 Colonia Digital: The Empire Feeds Back! , WP HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1), Berlin (DE)
  • 2018 Invisible Republic #stillovingtherevolution , UA HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin (DE)
  • 2019 Fake Youth , UA Young Drama Hannover (DE)

Radio plays

  • 2005 Off-Off-Tat , Radio X , Frankfurt / M.
  • 2008 little red (play): 'herstory' , Deutschlandradio
  • 2015 Orpheus in the Upper World: A Tug Opera, WDR
  • 2016 WARPOP MIXTAKE FAKEBOOK VOLXFUCK PEACE OFF! Schland Of Confusion, WDR

Prices

  • for little red (play): 'herstory' the “favoriten 08” of the NRW culture secretariat at the festival favoriten 08 - Theaterzwang
  • Orpheus in the Upper World: A Tug Opera : Prix ​​Europa 2015; Radio play of the month April 2015

literature

  • Marijke Hoogenboom, Alexander Karschnia: Na (ar) het Theater - after theater? , Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-812455-1-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The "Schlepperoper" Orpheus in der Oberwelt becomes radio play of the month April 2015. WDR, May 3, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2015 .