HEIMSPIEL 2011 in Cologne - Local and Global Contrasts on Stage

On six days, 106 artists from 15 countries will present and discuss current developments in contemporary theatre. The international guest performances and the symposium will present new theatrical forms, surprising alliances and unusual models for municipal theatres. In six workshops, 70 theatre professional from 9 countries will develop interdisciplinary projects.
Festival opening on 31 March in the Schauspiel Köln
Marking the start of the festival, HEIMSPIEL 2011 presents as a German premiere the video performance and theatre production “Fuck My Life”. Belgian director Pol Heyvaert (CAMPO Ghent) brings the life plans, dreams and visions of 15 Irish youth on stage in a radical and entertaining production. The reflection of the relationship between life and art, “Gardenia” by les ballets C de la B / Alain Platel and Franck Van Laecke, highly acclaimed by the audience and the press at last year’s festival in Avignon, will also be presented as a guest performance in Cologne on 2 April in the Schauspielhaus. At the end of the festival you can also visit “Sometimes I think, I can see you”, a literary installation on passers-by, passengers and waiting people. The production is realized by Argentine director Mariano Pensotti with Gesine Danckwart, Lisa Rank and the Cologne-based writers Thorsten Krämer and Guy Helminger. “Sometimes I think, I can see you” will take place on Saturday, 2 April from 5 to 8 pm in the Cologne metro station Rudolfplatz.

Further highlights of the festival programme:
Fri,1/ Sat, 2 April, Antoniterkirche and city centre
DER DRITTE WEG (Jena)
Nina Gühlstorff & Dorothea Schroeder
Fri, 1/ Sat, 2 April, Halle Kalk and Kunststation Sankt Peter
TROLLMANNS KAMPF – MER ZIKRALES (Hannover)
Björn Bicker & Marc Prätsch
Fri, 1/ Sat, 2/ Sun, 3 April, Schlosserei
SUSAN & DARREN (Manchester)
Quarantine & Company Fierce

Exhibition opening with Rabih Mroué in the Kölnische Kunstverein
The theatre programme is supplemented by lecture performances by Rabih Mroué (Beirut), a “Walk-In Archive” for theatre projects by Serotonin (Berlin) as well as an international symposium and workshops. The opening with Rabih Mroué and Serotonin is on Wednesday, 30 March, at 7 pm in the Kölnische Kunstverein; the results of the workshops will be presented in Pecha Kucha format on 31 March starting at 3 pm; the symposium will be held from 1 April till the end of the festival on 3 April.

HEIMSPIEL 2011 takes stock
HEIMSPIEL 2011 is the third and final event of the German Federal Cultural Foundation on the Heimspiel Fund, which since 2006 has been supporting theatre projects in a targeted way that deal with the social and urban reality of the city and address new audiences for municipal theatres.
“In the theatre scene, the term HEIMSPIEL has come to designate a genre encompassing the most various forms of artistic dealing with local history, people and milieus, with current issues related to living together and the identity of one’s own town. This is reason enough for a first extensive stocktaking within the frame of HEIMSPIEL 2011 in Cologne and to ask: What will remain of HEIMSPIEL after the year 2011?” (Hortensia Völckers, Artistic Director of the German federal Cultural Foundation)

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HEIMSPIEL 2011 is a festival dedicated to documentary, process-oriented and actionist theatre projects. More than 100 theatre professionals, architects, theatre scholars and media theorists invite the audience to discuss current trends in contemporary theatre.
HEIMSPIEL 2011 is the third and last event on the HEIMSPIEL Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation – and an invitation to raise questions, meet artists, colleagues and accomplices, and make new discoveries.

PR contact HEIMSPIEL 2011
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50670 Köln
E-mail: presse@heimspiel2011.de
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