:Rimini Protokoll

Rimini Protokoll is a collaboration between the artists Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel.{{cite web|title=Rimini Protokoll |url=https://www.cccb.org/en/participants/file/rimini-protokoll/227503 |website=cccb.org |date=7 April 2021 |accessdate=24 April 2020}} The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen in Germany.{{cite news|title=In dieser Schule lernt man, mit der Wirklichkeit zu spielen |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/das-buch-von-der-angewandten-theaterwissenschaft-in-dieser-schule-lernt-man-mit-der-wirklichkeit-zu-spielen-12095327.html |website=faz.net |date=26 February 2013 |accessdate=24 April 2020 |language=de |trans-title=In This School, You Learn to Play with Reality |last1=Jantschek |first1=Thorsten }} They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.{{cite news|title=Wir alle sind Spezialisten |url=https://www.nzz.ch/article9EC0P-1.215360 |newspaper=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |date=17 February 2004 |accessdate=24 August 2020 |language=de |trans-title=We Are All Specialists}}

A few characteristics typically apply to Rimini Protokoll productions:

• the group works as an artist collective,{{cite news |last=Smee |first=Jess |date= 9 November 2006|title= Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/09/arts.books |work=The Guardian |location=London, UK |access-date=24 August 2024}}{{cite web|title=Interview with Rimini Protokoll |url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/sup/sen/tsi/irp.html |website=www.goethe.de |date=|accessdate=24 August 2020}} sometimes including all of them, sometimes only one or two, sometimes collaborating with "outsiders".{{cite book |last=Malzacher |first=Florian |date=2007 |editor-last=Dreysse |editor-first=Miriam and Florian Malzacher |title=Experts of the Everyday. The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll |publisher=Alexander Verlag Berlin |pages=17–43 at 21 |chapter=Dramaturgies of care and insecurity: The story of Rimini Protokoll |isbn=978-3-89581-181-4}} They use the name Rimini Protokoll as a common and recognizable label for their productions.Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll's Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012 [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334552364_Rimini_Protokoll's_Theatricalization_of_Reality], pp. 153 – 160, at 153.{{cite web|title=Agenda: Türen öffnen |url=https://www.der-theaterverlag.de/theater-heute/aktuelles-heft/artikel/agenda-tueren-oeffnen/ |website=der-theaterverlag.de |access-date=3 October 2024 |language=de |trans-title=Agenda: Opening Doors}}
• organization around a protocol rather than a dramatic text, meaning a script that has been developed in rehearsals cooperatively and sets a loose framework for the performance{{cite book |last=Malzacher |first=Florian |date=2007 |editor-last=Dreysse |editor-first=Miriam and Florian Malzacher |title=Experts of the Everyday. The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll |publisher=Alexander Verlag Berlin |pages=17–43 at 20 f. |chapter=Dramaturgies of care and insecurity: The story of Rimini Protokoll |isbn=978-3-89581-181-4}}
• Rimini Protokoll usually work with people they call "experts of the everyday".Frederik Le Roy: Rimini Protokoll's Theatricalization of Reality, in: Vanderbeeken et al (eds), Bastard of Playmate. Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts, Amsterdam University Press 2012, pp. 153–160, at 154. This expertise is not associated with theatre, such as acting skills, but rather with a 'real life' competence or a profession that has shaped them{{cite journal |last=Boenisch |first=PM |date=2008 |title=Other people live: Rimini protokoll and their 'theatre of experts' |url=https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Other-people-live-Rimini-protokoll-and/99512270302346 |journal=Contemporary Theatre Review |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages= 107–113|doi=10.1080/10486800701741543 |access-date=24 August 2024}} Examples include truckers, secret service agents, model train enthusiasts, police officers, etc. These people convey their experiences, stories, clothes, accents, and even specific habitual movements onstage. This is seen as a key element of Rimini Protokoll's "new documentary theatre".
• use of media technology
• staging productions in representative locations or extending the stage to public spaces{{cite web |url=https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/177969/2018_Interview%20with%20Helgard%20Haug_def.pdf |title=Species of Spaces in the theatre of Rimini Protokoll: a conversation with Helgard Haug [The City as Stage in Rimini Protokoll: a conversation with Helgard Haug] |last=Aloy |first=Guillem |date=2018 |website=upcommons.upc.edu |publisher= |access-date=24 August 2024 }}

• 2007 — Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis award, for their stage play Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band{{Cite web |title=Deutschlandfunk: Der Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis für "Das Kapital" |language=de |date=16 June 2007 |url= https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-muelheimer-dramatikerpreis-fuer-das-kapital-100.html |access-date=12 October 2024}}{{Cite web|title=Rimini Protokoll: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 1|url=https://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/project/karl-marx-das-kapital-erster-band}}
• 2007 — Der Faust award in the "Sonderpreis" category{{Cite web |title=Nachtkritik |url=https://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=475:sonder-qfaustq-fuer-rimini-protokoll&catid=126&Itemid=100089 |access-date=13 June 2023}}
• 2008 — Europe Theatre Prize – Thessaloniki{{Cite web |title=Europe Theatre Prize – XII Edition – XII Edition Europe Theatre Prize |url=https://archivio.premioeuropa.org/open_page.php%EF%B9%96id=40.html |access-date=2 January 2023 |website=archivio.premioeuropa.org}}
• 2008 — Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden prize, for their radio play Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band{{Cite web |title= Marx on the Petersberg |url=https://www.filmstiftung.de/news/karl-marx-auf-dem-petersberg-horspielpreis-der-kriegsblinden-fur-kunstlergruppe-rimini-protokoll/ }}
• 2011 — Silver Lion at the 2011 Theatre Biennale in Venice{{Cite web |title= La Biennale |url= https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/2024-lion-awards-theatre}}
• 2013 — Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Situation Rooms{{Cite web |title= 17th Art Division Excellence Award (Interactive art) |url= https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/single/situation-rooms/}}
• 2015 — Hans-Reinhart-Ring{{Cite web |title=Schweizer Grand Prix Theater / Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2015 |url=https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/39555.pdf}}

Rimini Protokoll have several times been invited to the "10 best" of the theatre festival Berliner Theatertreffen, most recently with "All right. Good night." (2022){{Cite web |title=Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen 2022. The 10 selected productions |url=https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/programm/2022/10-inszenierungen/all-right-good-night}} and "Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye" (2020).{{Cite web |title=Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen 2020. The 10 selected productions |url=https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/programm/2020/10-inszenierungen/chinchilla-arschloch-waswas}}

• Schipper, Imanuel and Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel. Rimini Protokoll 2000–2020. English, hardcover, 2,000 photographs, excertps from more than 80 works. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz Koenig, 2021. {{ISBN|978-3-7533-0048-1}}
• Rimini Protokoll: [https://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/media/situationrooms/programmhefte/Situation_Rooms_englisch.pdf Situation Rooms] Program book in English (PDF download)
• Gomila, Andreu: Rimini Protokoll, escultors del temps / Sculptors of Time, Barcelona, [https://www.cccb.org/en/publications/file/105-rimini-protokoll-escultors-del-temps-sculptors-of-time/236882 Editions CCCB] vol.105, 2021 {{ISBN|978-84-09-31912-1}}
• Malzacher, Florian and Miriam Dreysse. Experts of the Everyday: The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008. {{ISBN|978-3-89581-187-6}}
• Deiters, Franz-Josef. Vielleicht 'Ins Licht rücken? Oder 'Türen öffnen. Rimini Protokolls Theater des Alltags. In: Franz-Josef Deiters: Neues Welttheater?: Zur Mediologie des Theaters der Neo-Avantgarden''. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2022, pp. 21–54. ISBN 978-3-503-20998-9 (print); ISBN 978-3-503-20999-6 (ebook)

• John Paul Tansey: [https://vimeo.com/53318534 The Making of 100% Melbourne], Melbourne 2012
• Imanuel Schipper in conversation with Rimini Protokoll, reART:theURBAN by ARCH+, Zurich, Gessnerallee, 25–27 October 2012
• [https://vimeo.com/621043666 Oktavian Saiu in dialogue with Rimini Protokoll] on the occasion of the Romanian version of The Walks, Teatrelli online, 2021
• Rimini Protokoll, Dominik Huber, Andreu Gomila: [https://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/rimini-protokoll-and-andreu-gomila/236691 Theatre Beyond Its Boundaries]. A conversation coinciding with the opening of Rimini Protokoll's [https://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/project/urban-nature Urban Nature], Barcelona, CCCB, 1 July 2021.
• Andreu Gomila: [https://lab.cccb.org/en/rimini-protokoll-theres-not-such-a-big-difference-between-us-and-the-audience/ There is not such a big difference between the audience and us], A portrait of Rimini Protokoll, Barcelona 2021

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• [https://vimeo.com/riminiprotokoll Rimini Protokoll channel on vimeo.com]

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