Lunatiks production

lunatiks produktion is a theater collective from Berlin . The group was founded in 2001 and mainly realizes projects in the fields of theater , installation and performance .
The group became known with the first auction of a play on eBay ("livingROOMS: das Zuhausetheater", 2004).

Characteristics

Most of the productions are located in the border areas between site specific theater and documentary research projects. The projects are often based on interviews with contemporary witnesses or documentary material. According to its self-image, lunatiks produktion carries out "research work with the means of the theater". The focus is on historical material from recent German history (e.g. "Westflug" for the hijacking of a Polish passenger plane from Gdansk to West Berlin in 1978 or "extras of the scandal" for the Barschel-Pfeiffer affair ) as well as the question of the connection between crimes and society ("Die Polizey - Physiognomie der Angst" on the criminalistic psychotopography of large cities or "Performing crime - Archive of Crimes" on crime as a medium of cultural expression). The aesthetic implementation follows the requirements of the material and is only determined by those involved in the course of the topic research. There are productions in which laypeople and those affected become performers themselves (like six highly talented children and young people in the performance "highQ") or in which a building becomes a walk-in installation (like a shell in downtown Stuttgart that becomes a "Search simulator" is made ("Sprengpunkte", 2006)). In other productions, the material is turned into a stage play that is performed by professional actors.

Productions

• "SENKUNGEN. A research on houses on fluctuating ground" (Theater Lüneburg, 2016)
• "AUTOMATS. A research on happiness machines" (Lichthof Theater Hamburg, 2015)
• "HANS! Start-up, Slow-down" ( Theaterdiscounter , 2014)
• "RADAR.INSTITUT" ( Theater Kiel , 2012-2014)
• "Magic Fund" ( Deutsches Theater Berlin / Theater Basel , 2011)
• "Use traces" ( Theater Kiel , 2010)
• "The world without us" ( State Theater Hannover , since 2010)
• "Botanical Figures of Thinking" ( State Theater Hannover , 2010)
• "green wars" ( Schwankhalle Bremen, 2009)
• "Everything open" ( Volkstheater Rostock , 2009)
• "LEGOtopia" ( Bröllin Castle , 2009)
• "Extras of the scandal" ( Theater Kiel , 2009)
• "Marzahnopolis" ( Berlin , 2009)
• "Toxoplasma" ( LOFFT / Hebbel am Ufer , 2008)
• "SCHICHT C - A City and Energy" ( Theater Vorpommern , 2008)
• "performing crime / bremen" ( Bremen , 2008)
• "REAKTOR" ( Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin , 2008)
• "highQ - brains at high speed" ( schauspielfrankfurt , 2008)
• "Winter to go" ( Berlin , 2007)
• "conserved" ( Berlin , 2007)
• "Westflug. The story of a kidnapping" ( Sophiensaele , 2006)
• "explosive points." ( State Theater Stuttgart , 2006)
• "To the last stop" (former Palace of the Republic , 2005)
• "The Police - Physiognomy of Fear" ( Nationaltheater Mannheim , 2005)
• "livingROOMS: the home theater" ( Sophiensaele / private apartments, 2004)
• "inner city" ( Hebbel am Ufer , 2004)
• "Everything must Go!" ( Theater discounter , 2004)
• "Parasite!" ( Dock 11 , 2002)
• "MANGA - The Realm of Signs" ( Berlin , 2002)

Awards

• 2012 Germany - Land of Ideas Schauspielhaus Hannover
• 2011 invitation to the Autorentheatertage, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2010 invitation to the Autorentheatertage, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2007 "Bremen Author and Producer Award " Schwankhalle Bremen
• 2007 winner of the competition "Eine Jugend in Deutschland" by Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and schauspielfrankfurt
• 2004 Nominated for the inspire! Award from Deutsche Telekom

literature

• Heiner Remmert, "Aesthetics of the economy -» Everything must raus! «And» livingROOMS «by lunatiks produktion", in: Franziska Schößler, Christine Bähr (eds.), "Economy in the contemporary theater", Transcript Verlag 2009.
• Birgit Lengers (Hrsg.), Tobias Rausch (Hrsg.), Heiner Remmert (Hrsg.), "Magic Fund: Reports on the magical power of capital", Verlag Theater der Zeit 2012, ISBN 978-3943881073 .
• Janette Mickan et al., "Swarms in a Snowstorm - The theater works by lunatiks produktion as participatory city projects", in: Kristina Volke (Ed.), "Intervention Culture - From the power of cultural action", VS Verlag 2010.
• Theater Vorpommern (ed.), "SCHICHT C - Das Lexikon, documentation volume for the theater project", Greifswald 2008.

Web links

• Website of lunatiks production
• Article in ZEIT about "livingROOMS"
• ZDF Theaterkanal: 2007 author and producer award to lunatiks produktion
• Website of the RADAR.INSTITUT from Theater Kiel and lunatiks produktion