Harriet Maria and Peter Meining
Harriet Maria and Peter Meining (born 1967 and 1971 respectively) are an artist couple who worked and produced under the name norton.commander.productions from 1995 to 2014 .
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With their works, which include performances, installations, urban interventions and short films, they move at the interface between theater, film, visual arts and new media.
Her theater work is characterized by a technically sophisticated handling of video and film on stage. Using collage / cutting techniques, they alienate known fabrics, examine and dissect the respective templates and figures. The principle of the work is like a series of experiments in which a new structure is created. With this artistic approach, classic fabrics ( Woyzeck ) or film fabrics ( Solaris , Frankenstein ) were reinterpreted and processed for the stage. The program always revolves around the confrontation of the human body with the media world and its aesthetic surfaces, but also its implicit political power structures.
There is something cold-blooded about the fascination with processes whose mechanics lead to personal catastrophes. It is as if all of the Meinings' pieces were playing in a life-threatening year with thirteen moons for sensitive people. The psychopathologies of everyday life, whether in the living room as in Fassbinder's melodramas, in laboratories or in the universe, whether "drops", the rampage "Out of Control", "Solaris", "Frankenstein's" omnipotent fantasy and "Rosemary's Baby", have one thing in common : They are protocols of annihilation. They are about disempowerment and overpowerment - from people by people, by force majeure, by divine or satanic power.
Her works have been shown at renowned national and international festivals such as “Politics in Free Theater” Stuttgart (1999), (Hamburg 2003), (Berlin 2005) Theater der Welt (2002) Tampere Theater Festival (2005) “Welt in Basel” (2006) "Monologfestival" Schauspielhaus Zürich 1999, "Festival Perspektive" Saarbrücken (2003, 2005) or "Impulse" (NRW 2003) invited.
Co-producers of ncp were u. a. : Hellerau - European Center for the Arts, HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) Berlin, Forum Free Theater (FFT) Düsseldorf, Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Schauspielhaus Dresden, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, brut Wien, WUK Vienna, Le Maillon Strasbourg, Schauspiel Hannover , Theaterhaus Gessner Alle Zurich, Parkaue Berlin, Theaterhaus Jena, Deutsche Oper Berlin, (16)
Harriet Maria and Peter Meining worked with artists such as Blixa Bargeld, Hermann Beyer, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Lutz Blochberger, Irm Hermann, Eva van Heijningen, Mario Mentrup, Thomas Neumann, Pascale Schiller, Veit Sprenger, Lars Rudolph, Tarwater, Otmar Wagner , Juliane Werner, Christian Wittmann, Nikolaus Woernle and Ole Wulfers.
Catalog raisonné
Performance / selection
1995 Rauschen Project Theater Dresden
1996 Pictures give space to words Podewil Berlin
- 1997 Genetics Woyzeck European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 1999 Kosmo (TEST) Sophiensaele Berlin
- 2000 terrain! Terrain! Pull up! Pull up! German Pavilion Expo 2000, FFT Düsseldorf
- 2002 Out of Control European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2002 Drop on hot stones Thalia Theater Hamburg
- 2002 Luxury, begging for Prada! Begging for Gucci Theater of the World, Düsseldorf
- 2003 Hans in the Glück Schauspielhaus Hamburg
- 2004 Solaris European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2005 Frankenstein Hebbel am Ufer Berlin HAU 2
- 2005 Fairy tales, naive questions - complex answers (with Veit Sprenger) Mousonturm Frankfurt
- 2006 Rosemary's Baby Theaterhaus Jena / Hau Berlin
- 2006 The Zone European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2006 Preparadise Sorry Now Theaterhaus Jena
- 2006 Angst Schauspielhaus Dresden / Kammerspiele Munich
- 2007 FilmKampfMaschine (with Veit Sprenger ) WUK Vienna / Mousonturm Frankfurt
- 2008 TRIVIAL (delete differently) Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main
- 2009 Communist Eater or the Life of One Societaetstheater Dresden
- 2009 The Cold Heart European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2010 The Wolf Boys European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2010 Shopping Audiowalk Centrumgalerie Dresden
- 2010 Peter and the Wolf , Theater an der Parkaue Berlin
- 2011 X Commandments Part 1 Mousonturm Frankfurt / European Center for the Arts Hellerau
- 2012 Clothes make the man , theater on the Parkaue Berlin
- 2012 X Commandments Part 2 European Center for the Arts Hellerau / FFT Düsseldorf
- 2013 The Totmacher Societaetstheater Dresden
- 2013 X Commandments 3 Dance the Death European Center for the Arts Hellerau / FFT Düsseldorf
- 2014 Robinson Crusoe Theater an der Parkaue Berlin
- 2015 The Odyssey of Odysseus - music theater / opera Deutsche Oper Berlin
Films / selection
- 1999 A good murder , experimental film
- 2003 Grillenburg , short film
Curated festivals / selection
- 1999 HighLights (Festspielhaus Hellerau)
- 2007 border area Heimat (Festspielhaus Hellerau)
- 2008 What is VALUE (Festspielhaus Hellerau)
Exhibition / participation / selection
- Wings of Art - Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
- Supernova - Palast der Republik Berlin 2004
- New York Expo Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, NYC 2004
- Filmfest Dresden (2003/2005)
Awards
- Art - Promotion Prize of the City of Dresden 1998 *
- George Tabori Prize 2010 - Fonds Darstellende Künste eV, award ceremony: May 31, 2010 in the Berliner Ensemble
swell
- Genetics Woyzeck: Nicole Adolph Der Spiegel October 15, 1999 Lonely under media corpses www.spiegel.de
- Review of “Tanz den Tod” Lucas Pohlmann nachtkritik.de December 6, 2013 weblink
- Robinson Crusoe Daily Mirror. Patrick Wildermann April 28, 2014 www.tagesspiegel.de
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d website of the Goethe Institute Sylvia Staude about Harriet and Peter Meining
- ↑ Portrait in the trade journal: Theater heute Author: Andreas Wilink, published in Theater heute 5/2006 www.der-theaterverlag.de (fee required )
- ↑ "Drop on hot stones" review in "Die Welt" by Hella Kemper 24.10. 2002 [1]
- ↑ Why is Mr. R running amok, WP under Out of Control: Why is Mr. R. running amok?
- ↑ Critique of "Solaris" by Gerald Siegmund February 25, 2005 [2]
- ^ Website of the artist
- ^ Nicole Adolph: Genetics Woyzeck: Lonely among media corpses. In: Genetik Woyzeck: Nicole Adolph Der Spiegel 15.10. 1999 Lonely among media corpses. Der Spiegel, October 15, 1999, accessed October 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Hella Kemper: Bumped into life with your nose. Die Welt, October 24, 2002, accessed October 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Gerald Siegmund: State of emergency: "norton.commander productions" with "Solaris" in the Mousonturm. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, February 25, 2005, accessed on October 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Sylvia Staude: The Hauff Horror Show. Frankfurter Rundschau GmbH, December 14, 2009, accessed on October 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Lukas Pohlmann: Flirt with the bone costume. Nachtkritik.de, December 6, 2013, accessed October 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Patrick Wildermann: Inselkoller: "Robinson Crusoe". Der Tagesspiegel, April 28, 2014, accessed October 7, 2017 .