Hebbel on the bank

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The HAU Hebbel am Ufer is a theater with three venues in since the season 2003/2004 Berlin . In the international production house and venue for festivals, guest performances and co-productions, events from the fields of theater, dance, performance , discourse , music and visual arts are part of the program. It does not have its own ensemble and is one of the anchor institutions for the independent performing scene.

Venues

The HAU comprises the following three stages:

Before the merger, these three houses were independent, but rarely visited. But there are also games outside of these buildings: installations and performances are held in the Berlin urban space that also involve the public and residents, such as the open-air project La Marea in Wrangelkiez , YEW: outside by Angela Schubot & Jared Gradinger in the Blankenfelde Botanical Park. Pankow or the Festival Berlin stays! , in which the former Postbank building on Halleschen Ufer was partially used.

management

The first director was Matthias Lilienthal , who was previously dramaturge at the Theater Basel , chief dramaturge at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and in 2002 director of the Theater der Welt festival in the Ruhr area . His resignation follows the wish to do something really new professionally every ten years.

Lilienthal's successor since the 2012/2013 season is Belgian Annemie Vanackere , who had been artistic director of the Schouwburg in Rotterdam since 1995 . Her contract, initially limited to August 2017, was extended by the Supervisory Board in December 2015 to August 2022.

Alignment

The HAU has the task of continuing the legacy of the Hebbel Theater as a guest venue in Berlin for internationally renowned guest performances in the field of dance and theater. Co-productions and guest performances by artists and groups from all over the world as well as projects from the German and local independent theater and dance scene are produced and shown here.

Headed by Matthias Lilienthal

Right from the start, the HAU was characterized by a pronounced political and avant-garde claim. Lilienthal said they had "systematically changed the theater into a documentary film festival." Lilienthal saw migration as a central theme and made it clear that the HAU had "turned the concept of globalization , which it often criticized politically, into something culturally positive". His unconventional program brought young audiences to the theater.

In 2012, Eva Behrendt from Theater heute described “presence” as a common artistic criterion for the events at HAU and stated that HAU had brought her “city closest” to her of all Berlin theaters. Around a third of the productions shown came from the intensive international exchange, a further third came in through independent off-theater groups and a third was dedicated to dance theater .

Directed by Annemie Vanackere

In 2014, two years after Annemie Vanackere took office, Daniel Schrader from Ballhaus Ost expressed the view in Theater heute magazine that the HAU had become “even more international” under the new management and was “a little less a place for young, fresh Berlin artists ”.

The HAU is the venue and has been the organizer of the Berlin festival “ Tanz im August ” since 2013 , which brings together choreographers, dancers and companies from all over the world for three weeks each year and presents them throughout the city in cooperation with other Berlin venues. In 2018, the Dance Festival, founded by Nele Hertling in 1988, celebrated its 30th anniversary in August. HAU has been a member of the alliance of international production houses since 2015 .

The accompanying program of the HAU creates connections with the audience with artist talks, introductions for groups and cooperation projects. Artists, young people and students work together regularly in the house club.

Artist (selection)

Directors , choreographers and groups who have been working regularly with Hebbel am Ufer since 2004:
Andcompany & Co. , Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Simone Aughterlony , Sebastian Baumgarten , Jérôme Bel , James Bridle , Neco Çelik , Ivo Dimchev, Forced Entertainment , Big Art Group , Gob Squad , Alvis Hermanis , Mette Ingvartsen, Hans-Werner Kroesinger , Ligia Lewis, Shermin Langhoff , Constanza Macras, Richard Maxwell , Thomas Meinecke , Rabih Mroué , Paul B. Preciado , Rimini Protokoll , Milo Rau , Angela Richter , Jochen Roller , Xavier Le Roy , Christiane Rösinger , Isabelle Schad , Christoph Schlingensief , She She Pop , Meg Stuart , The Wooster Group , Peaches , Kat Válastur and Miet Warlop.

Awards

Financial aspects

The HAU Hebbel am Ufer is a free theater . It has a budget of around 4.6 million euros from subsidies from the State of Berlin and receives numerous other project funding from sources such as the Capital City Culture Fund , the Berlin Senate , the Federal Culture Foundation and the like. a. Matthias Lilienthal gave the following figures in 2012: Around five million euros in theater budget were available, plus two million from funding applications. Of these two million euros, 1.2 million euros were due to funding applications from the independent groups and around 800,000 euros to direct grants to the HAU.

literature

  • Kirstin Hehmeyer, Matthias Pees (Eds.): Import Export. Workbook for the HAU Berlin. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-40-3 .
  • Christine Wahl: The first 600 days. After the second season at the latest, Annemie Vanackere at the Berlin HAU has nonchalantly disheveled in the footsteps of her sovereignly sloppy predecessor Matthias Lilienthal. In: Theater heute , 55th year, No. 8/9, August / September 2014, ISSN  0040-5507 , pp. 46–49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Annemie Vannackere: Thinking Holistically. For Annemie Vanackere, the HAU comes very close to the ideal theater. If only there was no separation between the city theater and the independent scene! In: Theater heute , special issue 2014, yearbook 2014 Reale Utopien , pp. 20–21.
  2. ^ Susanne Strätz: The most chaotic theater in the capital. The Hebbel am Ufer, or HAU for short, is the wildest stage in the capital. As a theater concert cinema club combination, it is a field of experimentation that hits Berlin's nerve. September 2009, accessed December 25, 2014.
  3. Mietshaus & Fabrik Tempelhofer Ufer 10th in the monument database of the LDA Berlin
  4. ^ Susanne Strätz: The most chaotic theater in the capital. The Hebbel am Ufer, HAU for short, is the wildest stage in the capital. As a theater concert cinema club combination, it is a field of experimentation that hits Berlin's nerve. September 2009 , accessed December 25, 2014.
  5. YEW: outside: HAU as a guest in the Botanical Volkspark | Green Berlin. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  6. Festival “Berlin stays!” At HAU - singing tenants' meeting in the theater. Retrieved on July 21, 2020 (German).
  7. a b c A conversation with Matthias Lilienthal: Theater as a social attack . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 26, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2012
  8. Matthias Lilienthal's directorship at HAU ends in 2012. In: tip Berlin , January 2012
  9. ^ DPA message, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 289, December 15, 2015, p. 13.
  10. ^ A b c Matthias Lilienthal: The globalization barometer. For nine years, the HAU in Berlin-Kreuzberg operated the theater as an extremely successful documentary festival. Intendant Matthias Lilienthal and his deputy Kirsten Hehmeyer tell how it came about. In: Theater heute , April 2012, pages 24–30.
  11. Gabriela Herpel: The man from row three. In autumn Matthias Lilienthal takes over as the new director of the Münchner Kammerspiele. Many believe he will really stir up the venerable theater. He's been doing it for a long time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , No. 9, February 27, 2015, p. 14.
  12. Eva Behrendt: One hundred percent present - Pro HAU The HAU is not a theater to cuddle up to, but a model for the future. In: Theater heute , April 2012, pp. 32–33.
  13. Christine Wahl: The first 600 days. After the second season at the latest, Annemie Vanackere at the Berlin HAU has nonchalantly disheveled in the footsteps of her sovereignly sloppy predecessor Matthias Lilienthal. In: Theater heute , 55th year, No. 8/9, August / September 2014, ISSN  0040-5507 , p. 49.
  14. ^ Esther Slevogt: Alliance of International Production Houses and International Dance Center planned. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (German).
  15. ^ HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin - accompanying program. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  16. ^ HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin - Houseclub. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  17. Hebbel am Ufer No desire for “art crap”: The Kreuzberg theater combine of a different kind seeks friction with reality. Retrieved December 25, 2014.