Home port Neukölln

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Home port Neukölln
location
Address: Karl-Marx-Strasse 141
City: Berlin
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '37 "  N , 13 ° 26' 21"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '37 "  N , 13 ° 26' 21"  E
Architecture and history
Opened: 2009
Internet presence:
Website: www.heimathafen-neukoelln.de

The home port of Neukölln is a cultural space for independent theater, entertainment, debates, concerts, drama and performance in Berlin-Neukölln . There are productions from the independent scene as well as international guest performances. The idea emerged from the theater collective of the same name, which has been running the historic Saalbau Neukölln at Karl-Marx-Strasse 141 in Berlin's Neukölln district since it was founded in 2009.

history

In 2007 the Heimathafen Neukölln theater collective started operations in an empty corner bar on Richardstrasse. [1] The collective began as a nine-person team from the fields of direction , dramaturgy , stage design and acting . In 2008 the program took place in the Alte Post at Karl-Marx-Straße 97. In April 2009, the current venue in the ballroom of the Saalbau Neukölln in the former Berlin workers and entertainment district Rixdorf was moved into. [1] The festival and ballroom of the Saalbau Neukölln was a popular venue for variety shows, theater, boxing matches, fashion shows, music and dance around the turn of the century.

Under the motto Wir sind Volkstheater , the Heimathafen collective applied with the intention of making the hall building its permanent venue. It was awarded the contract by the Neukölln district and initially operated the hall with private start-up capital and later with public funding. [11] The hall offers space for up to 800 guests, with seating it has 400 seats. There is also a studio stage with 70 seats in the house.

Alignment

The aim of the artistic management team is, according to their own statements, to “ reinvent popular theater and fill it with life in a provocative and controversial way.” With this, Heimathafen Neukölln wants to offer a stage to those subjects and people who are seldom seen and heard in society and in theater . The focus is on Neukölln's present and history, and with it directly connected the importance of home as well as migration conflicts , youth violence , precariat , gentrification or East-West conflicts.

“Heimathafen Neukölln, which is managed by a team of four dedicated theater women, creates popular theater for the neighborhood and prefers to get its material from the immediate area, stages texts by Neukölln authors and repeatedly develops research projects around site-specific history (s). (...) Small pearls of empathic role-changing play always succeed with the least scenic means. "

- Jury of the Federal Theater Prize, December 2015

management

The sponsor is the Saalbau Neukölln Kultur & Veranstaltungs gGmbH . The managing directors are Nicole Hasenjäger and Iris Ratei. [10] The artistic direction team includes set designer Julia of Schacky, director Nicole Oder and actress Inka Loewendorf . Norbert Jackschenties is responsible for booking in the music program area.

program

The program of Heimathafen Neukölln is divided into four areas called theater, amusement , Tacheles and music.

The theater sector was shaped from the very beginning by the group Die Rixdorfer Perlen , consisting of three women who perform old Berlin songs and newly translated classics from music history. The theater productions in Heimathafen Neukölln include Die Rixdorfer Perlen (between 2009 and today) by Julia von Schacky and Nicole Oder, The Neukölln Trilogy (Arabboy, Arabqueen, Baba between 2009 and 2014 ) by Nicole Oder, Peng! Bang! Boateng! (2016) by Nicole Oder, Finding Freddy (2015) by Stefanie Aehnelt, Relationship Box (since 2016) by Constanze Behrends, Ultima Ratio (2015) by Nicole Oder, Tear Down This Classroom (2014) by Constanze Behrends, Klassenkampf (2016) by Constanze Behrends, Human Traffic (2016) by Nicole Oder u. v. a.

The area Amüsemang represented u. a. the show revues Fujiama Nightclub and Bohème Sauvage - based on the nightlife of the 1920s.

The improvised gala Schund & Asche by entertainers Till Reiners and Moritz Neumeier or Ken Yamamoto's Best of Poetry Slam are representatives of the Tacheles division .

In the field of music , artists from different genres performed, such as AnnenMayKantereit , Meret Becker , The Streets , Billy Bragg , Chilly Gonzales , Goldfrapp , Joan As Police Woman , Suzanne Vega , The Breeders , The War on Drugs and Ed Sheeran . There are also regular formats such as Sing dela Sing and evenings from the fields of classical and new music .

Artist at home

Historical photo of the hall building, home port Neukölln

Youth club

The youth theater group Active Player NK was founded in 2011 by theater educator Maike Plath . In the meantime, the game management has been taken over by Walid Al-Atiyat. ACT eV works according to a participatory biographical approach that Maike Plath developed over many years at a Neukölln secondary school. Previous productions are: Arabqueen and Thilo Sarrazin (2011), Edward, Nosferatu and I (2012), Living In Translation (2013), Tear Down This Classroom (2014), Kafka im Kopf (2015) and How long is paradise? (2016), The Matrix of Democracy (2017), IchHochzwei - More Human than Humans? (2018) Childhood dies last (2019).

Awards

Memberships and grants

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Theater Prize - Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters announces winners. Retrieved February 18, 2020 . on bundesregierung.de
  2. Current projects | ACT eV Accessed on February 18, 2020 (German).
  3. Creativity pays off , Sabine Flatau, October 24, 2009, Berliner Morgenpost , www.morgenpost.de, accessed on December 27, 2015.
  4. ACT eV - Direct your life! ( Memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Werkstatt N, 2012, 2013, 2015
  5. German Musical Theater Prize 2017 | German Musical Academy. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  6. "Bang! Bang! Boateng! ”From Heimathafen Neukölln wins the IKARUS Theater Prize 2017 from JugendKulturService - Familienportal - Berlin.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  7. partner. (No longer available online.) In: interfilm.de. September 16, 2009, archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 .