O team

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O-Team is a theater collective operating in Berlin , Hamburg , Stuttgart and Munich that was founded in Berlin in 2005. O-Team works in interdisciplinary constellations with performing and visual artists, musicians, graphic artists and architects. The essential pillars of the aesthetic approach are site-specific and process-oriented work. O-Team often short-circuits found fallow places with utopian subjects and aspects of great literary works. In addition to literary productions and performances, O-Team also produces short films, readings and installations. The term “O-Team” is a short form of the former name of the group “Team Odradek”: “ Odradek“Describes a mythical creature that flexibly adapts to its environment.

description

O-Team's artistic work can best be described as a comparison between literary utopias and researched realities. Previous productions played u. a. in the former car repair hall and today's artists' colony of the Stuttgart Wagenhallen ("HermannSchlachten07", 2007), in a former administration building of the Munich company infineon ("Treffpunkt Golgatha", 2008), in the abandoned editorial rooms of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ("Blueprint", 2009) or on the historic farm dairy of the Darmstadt Grand Duke, today's biodynamic farm estate Oberfeld ("Cherry Gardens", 2009). The work always thematized the architectural, economic and social conversion and upheaval processes that it found in the fallow places: The productions dealt with the life plans, the personal and social utopias of the residents who are still or no longer living there. In this sense, the group's artists were repeatedly referred to as “interim users” or “interim use experts”. In fact, as a rule, they not only use the buildings they find, but also use them temporarily and live in them. Their approach makes strong reference to the metaphors of temporary architecture (recycling / reuse of idle resources, “situation potential”, etc.) and is often concerned with urban planning contexts and urbanistic theory. The way O-Team works can also be described as interdisciplinary: beyond the traditional theater horizon of work between director, dramaturge, stage and costume designer, actor, etc., the group repeatedly worked with visual artists and architects. Accordingly, some of the projects arose in a lengthy and initially open-ended process of exchange between the various specialist areas of expertise. For this reason, the group describes itself on its website u. a. also as a “research commission”, which first researches on site, then exchanges theories and ideas in residences and work shops before moving on to the practical artistic production process.

Surname

The group first appeared under the name “O-Team” as part of the “Blueprint” project. In the former editorial offices of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the group founded a fictitious start-up agency which, as a synonym for the group's old name, “Team Odradek” was renamed “O-Team”. On the one hand, “Team Odradek” is intended to show the claim to a group-oriented flat hierarchy within the collective (“Team”). On the other hand, the term “ Odradek ” refers to a mystical mythical creature that Franz Kafka describes in his short story “Die Sorge des Hausvaters”. “Odradek” is therefore a hardly tangible hybrid being that adapts to its environment, is in a constant process of movement.

Productions

  • Solaris The adaptation of Stanislav Lem's novel took place in complete darkness. Bread Factory and Club of Polish Failures Berlin, Wagenhallen Stuttgart 2005
  • HermannSchlachten07 With the theater classic " Hermannsschlacht ", O-Team mirrored the situation of the artists in the Stuttgart Wagenhallen. The “Stuttgart 21” investor project was conceptually equated with the Romans, the idea of ​​free Germanism with the artists. Wagenhallen Stuttgart 2007
  • Golgotha ​​meeting point Using the trilogy of novels “Molloy-Malone dies-The Nameless” by Samuel Beckett , O-Team addressed the loss of identity in an anonymous, empty office building. New Balan Munich 2008
  • Blueprint With the establishment of a temporary theater event agency, the collective toyed with the idea of ​​finding a golden intermediate path between business and culture in the sense of a self-experiment. Former editorial building of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich 2009
  • Cherry Gardens Farmers and disabled people now live and work on a former aristocratic farm. On several floors of a former cowshed, O-Team juxtaposed the life models of the residents of Hofgut Oberfeld with those of the characters from Anton Pavlovich Chekhov “ The Cherry Orchard ”. Darmstadt 2009
  • The warrior wakes up a play based on Frank Herbert's " Dune " (the desert planet), Stuttgart 2010
  • Betaville 's adaptation of PK Dick's novel " Do androids dream of electric sheep " ( Bladerunner ) was shown in connection with "Solaris" in complete darkness in the attic of a Berlin prefabricated building. Berlin, Jena 2011
  • Bees First performance of a text by Alexej Schipenko . The action takes place on December 21, 2012 and deals with fears of the future and the end of the world. Stuttgart 2011, Jena 2012
  • I want! I want! I want! Adaptation of the novel "The Rain King" by the American Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. Stuttgart 2012
  • Thank you for everything. World premiere of a text by Alexej Schipenko . Cooperation with the Theaterhaus Jena. Jena 2012, Stuttgart 2012, Munich 2013
  • Berlin-Beijing Editing of the diaries of the artist Ole Aselmann on his foot trip from Berlin to Beijing. Stuttgart 2013
  • Kashmir World premiere of a text by Alexej Schipenko . Stuttgart 2013
  • Lichtung is a sound theater, an acoustic journey on the winding paths of Martin Heidegger's thinking and speaking, a music-based performance for two people and a machine. The film Koyaanisqatsi was included in the plot. Stuttgart 2014
  • Die Verschollenen / Os Desaparecidos A play based on Franz Kafka's " Der Verschollene ". Stuttgart 2014
  • Cafè Stefanie is the replica and the revival of the legendary meeting place " Café Stefanie " of the Munich bohemians at the turn of the 20th century in a 16-day reenactment performance. Munich 2015

Publications

  • Catalog and music CD "HermannSchlachten07" 2007
  • DVD "Blueprint" 2009
  • Catalog and DVD "Cherry Gardens" 2010

Members

Permanent members are: Antonia Beermann, Markus Birkle, Folkert Dücker, Sebastian Harreus, Samuel Hof, Nina Malotta, Markus Niessner, Pedro W. Pinto, Roman Scheffner, Julia Wallner, Jonas Zipf. O-Team also worked and works with the following artists: Monika Hölzl, Andrej Kritenko, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Jelena Nagorni, umschichten developments, Aron Kitzig, Sonja Isemer, Julius Bornmann, Sven Hussock , Paul Frick, Julia Huber, Nils Meisel, Arash Safaian , Gregor Siber, Vishni-Projekt, Ole Aselmann, Fabian Hesse, Alexej Schipenko, Anna Langhoff u. a.

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