RA.MM
RA.MM was a Berlin theater , spectacle and performance group that was active from 1986 to 1997.
history
RA.MM, a renaming and reorientation of the RA theater group, which has existed since 1984, was founded in 1986 by the theater maker Arthur Kuggeleyn and the musician Tele Tocar together with a few other artists in Berlin.
The two "M" in the name stand for multi-media. Activities and projects were carried out by the non-profit association RA.MM Theaterart Berlin eV. The first RA.MM performances under the name took place in the autumn of 1986, namely as part of the Berlin festivals Interference and Atonal . Initially, the RA.MM Theater played in a former fire station at what was then Lindenstrasse 40/41 in Berlin. Then the troupe moved into a studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien for a year. In 1989 RA.MM, together with the ZATA Theater, became RAMMZATA , a multi-purpose theater on Fidicinstrasse in Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, RA.MM mainly played in the Tacheles theater in Berlin. In 1991 David Vostell made a video about Bestia Pigra . In 1992 RA.MM moved to Schloss Bröllin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where it installed studios and rehearsal rooms. These gradually became today's "international theater research center". RA.MM ended the 1997 rejection of further funding by the Berlin Senate for Culture
New forms of theater
RA.MM played with various forms of theater and performance, used and invented different styles and genres, some of them new and radical, e.g. For example: radio plays “live” in the dark, “musicals” without singing, room staging, street theater with cars stuck in a traffic jam, or even a theater circus in which lifeless performers are moved by machines. RA.MM experimented with projections, explosions, fire, machines, water, acoustic tones and other elements, which were effectively integrated into the theater spectacles and performances.
Content
Extreme stage situations were used to express social and political content, which sometimes provoked strong reactions from viewers. The audience was drawn into the action and encouraged to participate actively. For example, viewers have attacked, harassed or assisted performers. In Bestia Pigra , where one of the actors sits in the audience with a loaded (theater) pistol and shoots the (naked) performers, the audience becomes an accomplice: after each shot, a conférencier encourages the audience to applaud - which they do does.
Productions
- Pieces
- RIDIKI
- ER - a live radio play, text by Michael de Winter
- 75000 sec rush hour - a musical without singing
- THING
- APIS
- Chastity and Reason - by Dirk Spelsberg
- AKTE - impressions of bureaucracy
- Mass drive
- Bestia Pigra
- Casa de Locos
- Buy brains
- Kaerlek me
- Sign of shock
- Short shocks
- I
- performance
- Interference
- RA.MM bus performance: a series of spontaneous art action raids on various places in Berlin including Heinrichplatz, Breitscheidplatz, exhibition hall for the IFA opening
- DAF's end
- Machine operating research
- Mass distribution
- Anarchist Congress
- The duration is the length of an act
- Merry Christmas
- power
- ME a live radio play
Venues (selection)
- RA.MM, Axel-Springer-Str., Berlin
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
- RAMMZATA, Fidicinstr., Berlin
- SO36, Berlin
- Tacheles , Berlin
- Broellin Castle, Broellin
- MS Stubnitz, Rostock
- DOCK 11 , Berlin
Prizes and awards
- Kreuzberg Art Prize
- Herne Theater Festival
- International street theater festival Holzminden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on www.nzz.ch
- ↑ Entry on wiki.theaterencyclopedie.nl
- ↑ Entry on www.festivalimpulse.de
- ↑ Entry on www.werk-2.de
- ↑ Entry on www.filmland-mv.de ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry on nato-leipzig.de ( memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry on books.google.ch
- ↑ Entry on artprotacheles.blogspot.ch
- ↑ Entry on www.broellin.de ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
