RambaZamba Theater
The RambaZamba Theater in the Berliner Kulturbrauerei is an inclusive theater in which actors with and without disabilities perform professionally.
History and Theater Practice
RambaZamba was founded in 1990 as part of the Sonnenuhr e. V. founded by Gisela Höhne and Klaus Erforth , parents of a son with Down syndrome . Erforth was a director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin until 1990 , Gisela Höhne was an actress and theater scholar. Her son Moritz was the first member of the theater company that Höhne founded in 1991. He is still one of the main actors of the ensemble and has become an impressive drummer under the direction of Stefan Dohanetz. The actors are people with and without handicaps, often well-known Berlin theater personalities. The theater is financially supported by the Senate Chancellery for cultural affairs, Senate administrations for education, science and research as well as for integration, labor and social affairs , foundations and private and public sponsors.
The first play in the theater was Prinz Weichherz , directed by Höhne, based on a poem by the poet Georg Paulmichl . The sold-out premiere was given in 1991 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. The RambaZamba theater initially consisted of two ensembles led by Höhne and Erforth, as well as the Sonnenstich children's circus . Since 2007, 30 actors have had jobs that enable them to turn their hobby into a profession. The workplaces are managed by VIA workshops, a workshop for people with disabilities. After 20 years together, Gisela Höhne was responsible for the entire artistic work from January 2010. In the middle of 2017 Jacob Höhne , the son of Höhne / Erforth, took over the management of the theater.
The actors' handicap is often creatively incorporated into the productions, but not as a defect, but as a strength: “In every piece I do, everyone should light up at least once.” The material comes from literature, mythology and contemporary topics and are processed into their own pieces in the samples. The actors are for example: Nele Winkler, the daughter of actress Angela Winkler , Zora Schemm and Juliana Götze , who has already been seen in various television series (Ensemble Höhne) or Jonas Sippel and Sebastian Urbanski. The RambaZamba theater, in particular the Gisela Höhne ensemble, has given guest performances throughout Germany and other European countries, including Portugal , Italy, France , the Netherlands , Denmark , Norway , Austria and Switzerland .
In 2004, the documentary film Liebe dich ... by Sylvie Banuls and Sabina Engel was released, which reports on the everyday life and theater work of the actors and members of Ensemble Höhne.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Sundial / Theater RambaZamba 2010, the Höhne ensemble developed the open air spectacle Der Frieden - Ein Fest (based on Aristophanes), which was held in the courtyard together with the Polish street theater group Teatr Ósmego Dnia and the Israeli integrative group Kenafayim from Tel Aviv the Kulturbrauerei was performed in front of 3,000 spectators.
Productions (selection)
Joint productions:
- 1995 Love goes through the stomach - a musical review. Music: Jens Hasselmann
Productions by Gisela Höhne:
- 1991 Prince Softheart
- 1993 A winter night's dream
- 1995 Coffee life and death
- 1997 Medea - The Deadly Competition
- 1999 Women's revue
- 2001 Orpheus without an echo ( opera )
- 2003 Of Puppets and Perfects and Encounters in Mongopolis ( Performances in the Stadtbad Oderberger Straße in Berlin)
- 2003 Mongopolis fish or duck
- 2004 Alice hunting rabbits
- 2006 A heart is not a soccer ball
- 2007 Alice on the Run
- 2009 Winterreise And we are gods ourselves
- 2010 Peace - A Festival (coproduction with Teatr Osmego Dnia and Kenafayim)
- 2011 Lost Love Lost or Let me play the lion too!
- 2012 Seasons (co-directed with Tomi Paasonen)
- 2013 Preferably in a threesome
- 2013 A skyscraper, an airport, a lazy sack
Productions by Klaus Erforth:
- 1994 transformation
- 1997 Woyzeck (en)
- 1998 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari "Silent Film Music and Performance.
- 2000 final
- 2000 Macunaima
- 2001 Beauty and the Monster
- 2004 somersault! (N) A ship will come ...
- 2004 Multicultural Tango
- 2005 Nosferatu - The Empty Houses
- 2007 Homage to Tadeusz Kantor - Dead Class
- 2008 I'm happy ... grotesque about war
- 2009 Müller and Müller - Legends of the Self
- 2010 Ship of Fools - a scenic concert with Max Raabe
Awards
- 1996 "Promotion Prize for Performing Arts" from the Berlin Academy of the Arts for the Gisela Höhne ensemble
- 1999 Special prize of the jury of the festival " Politik im Freie Theater " for "Medea - The Deadly Competition", directed by Höhne
- 1999 German Children's Culture Prize from the German Children's Fund
- 2004 Culture Prize of the BZ for both directors
- 2012 Lessing Prize for Criticism
- 2014 Caroline Neuber Prize of the City of Leipzig to the director and artistic director Gisela Höhne
Quotes about the RambaZamba theater
- "The only theater that does without a crisis of meaning." ( Frank Castorf )
- “In a world in which everyday speed is determined by computers and perception is primarily realized through electronic media, SONNENUHR's work relies on archaic expressions of individuals. That they are different is their quality in the age of leveling. "( Heiner Müller )
literature
- Sibylle Bergemann and the RambaZamba Theater . Photographs. ed. by Frieda von Wild and Jonas Ludwig Walter , Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-45-8 .
Web links
- Official website
- Jan Brachmann: Somewhere on the edge of this world. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 25, 2002, accessed June 18, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2007 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 9, 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2007 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.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0759607/
- ↑ Liebe dich ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB) - Film portrait and interview with Sylvie Banuls and Sabina Engel
- ↑ Claus Peymann receives Lessing Prize for criticism. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of December 7, 2011, p. B4
- ↑ http://www.vogelsbergschule.de/aktuell/11/Das_ist_doch_keine_Kunst_1.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 23 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 49" E