Blue eggs studio
The Blaumeier Atelier, in the Walle district of Bremen , has been a registered association since 1989 and an art project that has existed since 1986. Over 250 people with and without disabilities or psychiatric experience in the fields of theater, mask making and games, music, painting, photography and literature meet here every week.
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In the fields of theater, painting, music, literature, photography and mask making and play, people with physical, mental or psychological peculiarities meet in their free time to work equally and continuously artistically. The focus of the artistic work is the individual person with their individual abilities. The question of whether artists or actors have a disability or are experienced in psychiatry does not arise. People are not perceived in deficit, but with their possibilities. The atmosphere in the courses is characterized by respect for the special features of the individual. The aim of the work in the continuously offered courses is the public presentation of the results of the artistic projects in the form of performances, concerts, exhibitions and readings.
history
The first artistic leisure activities for people who were previously psychiatric came into being in 1986 with the dissolution of the long-term psychiatry monastery Blankenburg . Since then, people with and without disabilities or psychiatric experience have met in a studio building in the Walle district of Bremen in order to work together artistically in the fields of theater, mask making and play, music, literature and the visual arts. In 2005, the range of courses was expanded to include analog photography and a writing workshop. Blaumeier has grown piece by piece over time. In 1992/93 the old studio building was renovated, increasing the available space. In 2007 the completion of a new building complex was celebrated, with which the studio area has doubled.
The theater sector founded a permanent ensemble: 15 actors take part in the long-term, professional theater work. a. the opera “Carmen”, the musically framed play “Around the World in 80 Days”, an adaptation of the ancient tragedy of “Orpheus and Eurydice” and, most recently, Shakespeare's classic “Storm” on stage. And the painting area also experienced constant expansion and professionalization.
Productions and projects
The Blaumeier-Atelier and its artists have received many awards over the years and enjoy a high reputation; the sweet women , one of the theater groups were, for example, invited to South Africa and the painting group presented images among others in 1998 and 2003 at the Consulate General in New York. The exhibition “Of Ports, Ships and Much Sea”, created in the painting area, was shown in the program of the German-Latvian cultural days O! VACIJA in Riga. The film Crazy About Paris , which came out in cinemas in 2002, was able to make the Blaumeier studio more widely known across the region. The mask area organized the “Free Night of Masks” six times. In an artistically designed park, up to 300 mask players from all over Germany enchanted up to 7,000 spectators each.
In both 2015 and 2017, the Blaumeier Atelier was co-organizer of the large, international theater festival “Mittenmang” in the Bremen Theater. International theater groups are guests here, with their productions representing different, sometimes provocative standpoints on the subject of inclusion and social interaction.
- Some exemplary performances and projects
- 1986: Zorro, the just avenger
- 1987: The funeral of the sardine (street theater) and the ball of the weird birds (first carnival parade)
- 1988: Sissi in distress , Chanella and sugar boys
- 1989: Sister, what are you doing, are you crying or laughing? ; first big blue eggs exhibition in the lower town hall
- 1990: Premiere of Jakobs Coronation , which won the EUCREA Culture Prize for Blaumeier in Dublin the following year
- 1991: heart dust
- 1992: Blaumeier goes London - exhibition of 50 paintings at SmithKline Beecham ; Performances of The Incredible Disappearance of the Museum Caretaker Hermann K. from B. in the Waldau Theater
- 1993: Fast Faust and Goethöse
- 1994: Art and Soul exhibition in the municipal gallery ; Play In the fire of the red lantern
- 1995: Fattoria Azzura exhibition - pizza, pasta and pigment ; Premiere of Criminal Hearts ; Garnet exhibition
- 1996: It goes forward and backward , presented by the half mask group; Plays laundry and beautiful prospects
- 1997: Traveling exhibition of 9 ways ; Exhibition tidal range ; Premiere of the play Grindkopf followed by a tour through the Ruhr area
- 1998: L'Amfiparnaso , madrigal comedy with the half mask group; Elfenbenken - a panodrama with fauna and flora with 150 participants in the Bremen Bürgerpark ; Mask show Kanale Grande ; Painting exhibition at the German Consulate General in New York
- 1999: Last Faust
- 2000: Exhibition Irre gut und crisp
- 2001: Premiere of Die Abreisser
- 2002: Crazy about Paris (film by Eike Besuden ); Terra Magica , the third FreiNacht in front of about 7000 spectators; Blue vermilion exhibition
- 2003: FreiNacht All überAll ; various exhibitions, among others again in New York; Bremen crime scene with blue eggs
- 2004: FreiNacht anno 1404 ; Premiere of Carmen
- 2005: Premiere of Walk in in the storage stage in Speicher XI ; Painting trip to Latvia
- 2006: Exhibition of ports, ships and lots of sea in cooperation with Latvian artists, in the following year traveling exhibition
- 2007 and 2008: Suite Elisabeth (play)
- 2008 and 2009: Danse Maskabre ( Mask Theater )
- 2009: Yes, I do! (Mask theater, among others with Thomas C. Zinke )
- 2009: Around the world in 80 days (theater performances and tour 2010)
- 2010: So close to heaven (performances by the mask group)
- 2010, 2011, 2012: Performances of corsetry and millions (play)
- On the occasion of the Edvard Munch exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen , in cooperation with the latter, the Blaumeier painting studio organized its own Munch exhibition in 2011 and 2012 in Bremen and 2012 in Latvia.
- 2011: Premiere of Emden Außenhafen - a scenic recital (play); Premiere of Don Quixote (play)
- 2012: Christmas Tagesschau (nativity play / theater)
Awards
- 1991: European Culture Prize
- 2006: German Citizen Award
- 2009: Villa Ichon Culture and Peace Prize
- 2011: Bremen Town Musicians Prize
- 2015: Diversity Prize Bremen
Publications
- Two different socks . Book published in 1994
- Blue eggs. The book .
- Art book with works by Bremen and Latvian artists that were created as part of the exhibition Ports, Ships and Much Sea (2007)
- MenschenOrte - Blaumeier writes - Texts of the writing workshop (2010)
- Don Bleu Choir (Music CD, 2012)
- Of ports and ships and a lot of sea, 2007
- Heimat - a photography book, 2011
- Eye contact - Blaumeier presents portraits from the world of work. Book publication.
- Berlin Berlin - Blaumeiers street photography. Photo tape
- Heaven, Hell, Love, Death. Book publication.
- Addictions & joys. Book publication.
- The latest craze - blue eggs on the trail of Edvard Munch. Book publication.
- My topic - 18 positions from the Blaumeier studio. Book publication.
Others
In 1992 Anja Telscher shot the documentary Blaumeier .
In 1998, based on Blaumeier, the Blauschimmel studio was founded in Oldenburg.
Web links
- www.blaumeier.de
- bremen.de - Blaumeier Atelier - Art & Psychiatry Project
- spiegel.de: Art by crazy people (article in the print edition of the mirror 24/1994)
- bremer-medienbuero.de - Blankenburg.Bremen.Blau. (PDF; 404 kB) Archived from the original ; accessed on January 13, 2020 .
- taz.de from September 12, 2012: Funeral service for Gisela Meyer - farewell to a diva
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ blaumeier.de: Theater Archive -Mieder and millions. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ blaumeier.de: The latest craze! Blaumeiers painter in the footsteps of Edvard Munch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
- ↑ weser-kurier.de: Artists from the Blaumeier studio have painted their own works for Edvard Munch. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ blaumeier.de Theater Archive - Emden outer harbor. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ blaumeier.de: Theater Archive - Don Quixote. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ weser-kurier.de: The audience panted with Maria. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Spiel mit Witz und Wahn (article in the print edition of Spiegel 26/1991). Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ deutscher-buergerpreis.de: category everyday heroes. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ taz.de: Blue life in the Überseestadt. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ taz.de: Culture Prize for Bremen's Blue. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ taz.de: Impetus for a new normal. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ^ Radiobremen.de: Bremer Stadtmusikantenpreis - Prize Winner 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ weser-kurier.de: Blaumeier-Atelier: the normally crazy ambassadors. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ taz.de: Culture Prize for Bremen's Blue. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Prize winners 2015 | Diversity Prize Bremen. Retrieved on February 21, 2018 (German).
- ↑ blaumeier.de: Blaumeier. The book. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 3, 2013 ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ blaumeier.de: Of ports, ships and a lot of sea. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ blaumeier.de: Our book. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ weser-kurier.de: Blaumeier writes. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ filmbuero-bremen.de: Blaumeier , a documentary from 1992. Retrieved on February 13, 2013 .
- ^ Blauschimmel-atelier.de: About us . Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 2 ″ E