Berlin company
The Berliner Compagnie (BC) is an alternative touring theater from Berlin and stands in the tradition of critical, enlightenment theater with current relevance. The BC is a repertory theater and holds productions for many years for as long as required. The ensemble lives and works in Berlin, but plays almost all of its own pieces throughout the German-speaking area.
history
Since it was founded in 1981 by the actors Gerhard Fries , at that time employed at the Staatstheater Kassel , and Jean-Theo Jost ( Staatstheater Wiesbaden ), her main thematic focuses have been peace, justice, human rights.
Right from the start, BC saw itself as “activation theater” or, in the sense of Bertolt Brecht, as “practical theater”. The performances are usually connected with actions: with demonstrations, with signature and poster actions, with collections, discussions, parties.
30 theater productions were made by 2018. Since 1991 almost all plays have been staged by the director Elke Schuster. Together with the author Helma Fries , she is also the artistic director of BC.
reception
Since 1982 the BC has been playing in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria , Switzerland , Italy , the Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg , Poland and the Czech Republic ; meanwhile there are over 2000 guest performances. In the work of many NGOs involved in peace, development and human rights work , the pieces of the BC have a firm place.
The BC was recognized as a non-profit in September 1992 . It is recognized by the Berlin Senate with a certificate dated October 26, 1988 as a "theater that fulfills the same tasks as federal, state, municipal or municipal theaters".
BC received (mostly multiple) project funding from the Berlin Senator for Cultural Affairs, from the EU Commission (Development Policy Directorate), from the Evangelical Development Service (EED), from the State Agency for Development Cooperation (LEZ), from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ , via InWEnt), from the Catholic Fund Cooperation One World, from the seed-fairness foundation GLS Bank , from the self-taxation campaign (ASB), from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung as well as from the Netzwerk Selbsthilfe eV
On September 1, 2009, BC received the National Aachen Peace Prize, and a support association has existed since then.
Productions
Since 1982 the Berlin company has developed 30 theater productions and shown them in Berlin as well as on tours at home and abroad:
- 1982: The Catonsville Nine Trial
- 1984: The Cuban Crisis
- 1985: Resurrection of the sun
- 1986: Oscar Romero
- 1987: Bertolt Brechts The exception and the rule
- 1987: SDI - as if heaven had quietly kissed the earth
- 1989: To each his own (nothing about South Africa)
- 1990: The emigrant
- 1991: The Almond Tree Gate
- 1992: Who Killed Chico Mendes?
- 1993: No asylum
- 1994: banking secrecy
- 1995: Newroz. Kurdish tragedy, German farce
- 1997: Aid for export
- 1998: Ken Saro-Wiwa. Blood for oil
- 1999: A beautiful world
- 2001: Hotel Justice
- 2003: Terra! Terra!
- 2004: Human Bombing
- 2005: Credit for Taslima
- 2006: Tango Mortal Del Peso
- 2007: the blue miracle
- 2008: The defense of Germany in the Hindu Kush
- 2010: The whites are coming. A play about Africa. About us.
- 2011: Eaten as hot as cooked. Climate catastrophe with music
- 2013: Contrary to what you think. A play about Jews, Muslims, Christians and the rift through the world
- 2014: Silent Power. A lobbyist comedy with evergreens and shredded smiles
- 2015: beggar on a golden throne. Hope comes from Bolivia
- 2016: The image of the enemy. The mysterious consonance of our media
- 2018: Longing for spring. Play about a Syrian family.
Award
- In 2009 the Berlin company received the national Aachen Peace Prize .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Berliner Compagnie at braunschweig-spiegel.de
- ^ Aachener Friedenspreis Berliner Compagnie honored. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 2, 2009, accessed on July 6, 2018 .