Stefan Kaegi | Concept
Born in Solothurn (Switzerland) in 1972. He studied visual arts in Zürich and drama/theatre/media at the University of Giessen/Germany. In various constellations he creates documentary theater pieces, radio plays and performances in urban spaces in Europe and South America. In his Argentinian piece „Torero Portero“, in which unemployed facility managers, while standing in the middle of a busy street in the city, talk about their previous work experience as security guards for rich people to the specators, who are viewing them through a window from the inside of a cafe. „Torero Portero“ toured Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin as well as Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In 2005 his "mini train world" for Theater Basel –“Mnemopark” - a live-filmest on the scale 1:87 thematizing the world of modelbuilding - was awarded the prize of the jury at "Festival Politik im freien Theater" and invited to Avignon, Montreal, Barcelona, Wien, Tampere (Finnland) and Tokyo (Tokyo International Arts Festival 2008). Since 2006 his mobile audience room „Cargo Sofia“ – a truck with two Bulgarian drivers – is touring all over Europe.
Jörg Karrenbauer | Direction
Jörg Karrenbauer studied theatre science and comparative literature in Berlin. At Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg he worked with directors who question the role of actors as representatives of someone else, like René Pollesch, Michael Laub or Jerôme Bel. Here he also met Rimini Protokoll during the work on "deadline", a piece with people working in the funeral business. For the last two years he has toured with a truck, rebuilt for carrying 50 spectators in the back, through a number of cities in Europe and the Middle East. In the cabin there were two Bulgarian truck drivers talking, singing and showing the audience how it feels bringing fish from Turkey to Spain and spare tires from Italy to Damascus.
Rimini Protokoll
Helgard Haug (1969), Stefan Kaegi (1971) and Daniel Wetzel (1969) studied at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen and work together (in various combinations) under the name of Rimini Protokoll. They are recognized as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as "Reality Trend" (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene. Each project begins with a concrete situation in a specific place and is then developed through an intense exploratory process. They have attracted international attention with their dramatic works, which take place in the grey zone between reality and fiction. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its "theatre of experts" to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called "experts" for that very reason.
