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1999 » Germany » Theatre Architecture

Curator:Kurt Gerling
Authors of Theme:Werner Ruhnau

Germany

THE EMPTY SPACE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS In 1911 the first EMPTY space is built at the festivity hall of Hellerau (Architect Heinrich Tessenow, stage design Adolphe Appia light concept Alexander von Salzmann). In the 20th, the German Theatre scientist Max Herrmann (1886-1943) describes the spectators as equal to the actors (players), he defines them as "co-players". In 1958, Yves Klein and Werner Ruhnau conceive the play THEATRE OF EMPTINESS for the Small Theatre of Gelsenkirchen. In 1997, Peter Brook writes: EMPTINESS in theatre allows the imagination to fil the gap ... or: "The participation of the public consists in being a complice of the plot." In 1997, the working group for the promotion of the reconstruction of Hellerau (Athanasiadis, Bolz, Bölling, Euling, Ruhnau and Zimmermann) initiated a competition of plays for the EMPTY space of the festivity hall. "We need plays where the contents can be performed by the visitors as co-actors." Not only theatre as a presentation on stage but plays for co-acting i.e. in forms of festivities, partitions for the performing arts which includes the public in the responsibility. Co-players as complices? Co-players as co-actors? How do the buildings opened during the last four years in the Federal Republic of Germany for the performing arts answer these basic questions?

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

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  • Gerd LINDEMANN
  • Werner RUHNAU
  • Thomas Beisert
  • Rüdiger Findelsen
  • Ahmad Galedary
  • Jens Grossman-Hensel
  • Günter Wilkens
  • Klaus Möbius
  • Florian Thamm
  • Werner Zienteck
  • Uwe Trometer
  • Ernst Ruhm
  • Walter Deters
  • Klaus Rademacher
  • Dieter Gerjets
  • Jürgen Willms
  • Reinhard Gobder Schmidt-Petersens
  • Alexander Lohausen
  • Robert Martin Degele

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