Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)
Heinrich on his way back to Kazakhstan
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Lena training migration
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Grandmother in Almaty
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Energy
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Crude Oil Stock exchange
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Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)
By Stefan Kaegi
In the 20th century people were shipped between the continents like barrels of oil. The documentary-theatre piece “Bodenprobe Kasachstan” (Soil Sample Kazakhstan) sets out in search of oil with a cast of individuals able to talk about the resource in terms of personal history. Stefan Kaegi and his team began casting in March 2010; the biographies brought together on the stage trace the route of the pipelines from Germany back to Kazakhstan then below the ground.
The oil trail is pursued by: a retired Russian-German tank-truck driver who is also an impassioned choir singer; an East German engineer who drilled for oil in Kazakhstan as well as Iraq and Texas; a young Kazakh who trades in mineral oil and solar cells in Germany; a woman who lives in Hanover but grew up by Baikonur, where Gagarin was shot into space; a beautician and bank clerk raised in Dushanbe during the Tajik civil war who now dances the Coyote Ugly in German bars.
“Bodenprobe Kasachstan” enables five performers to return to their almost-forgotten Kazakhstan and meet up with distant relatives via CinemaScope messages. The theatrical result is a simulated Kazakhstan, a celebration in Russian and German of the trails of the steppe, the paths of people’s lives, of oil, and of power.
With:
ELENA PANIBRATOWA
GERD BAUMANN
HEINRICH WIEBE
HELENE SIMKIN
NURLAN DUSSALI
Concept & Direction:: Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
Video Design: Chris Kondek
Music: Christian Garcia
Set Design: Aljoscha Begrich
Dramaturgy: Aljoscha Begrich, Juliane Männel
Lighting Design: Sven Nichterlein
Produktionsleitung: Juliane Männel
Technische Leitung: Sven Nichterlein
Director’s Assistant: Jessica Páez
Assistant Set Design: Justus Saretz, Maria Ebbinghaus
Translation & Surtitles: Franziska Zwerg (dt./russ.), Amanda Crain (engl.)
Video Operator: Bodo Gottschalk
Sound Operator: Daniel Dorsch, Nikolas Neecke
A production by Rimini Apparat and HAU / Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
Coproduced by Schauspiel Hanover, Wiener Festwochen, Goethe Institute Almaty, Le Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg / Scène Européenne, Territory Festival 2011 and BIT Teatergarasjen.
Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund and the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs.
Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)
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Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)
Documentation
Best Rimini Protokoll show I've seen yet.
ANDREW HAYDON
01.05.2011 / postcardsgods.blogspot.com
Gaps and All
Christine Wahl
30.04.2011 / Tagesspiegel
Fertile Gaps
Doris Meierhenrich
29.04.2011 / Berliner Zeitung
Le dessous des cartes
Veneranda Paladino
15.02.2012 / DNA Strasbourg
Teatro sin mensajeros
Justo Barranco
14.10.2011 / La Vanguardia
Die grosse Wanderung
Barbara Villiger Heilig
21.06.2011 / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Ein kasachischer Bohrjob
Bernhard Baumgartner
21.06.2011 / Wiener Zeitung
Bodenprobe Kasachstan
Christian Fillitz. Textfassung: Joseph Schimmer
18.06.2011 / http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/279383
Nachrichten aus Öldorado
U. Weinzierl
17.06.2011 / http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article13434538/Nachrichten-aus-Oeldorado.html
Abschlussanalyse der Wiener Festwochen
Kurier
17.06.2011 / http://kurier.at/kultur/3915052.php
Riminis "Bodenprobe" aus Kasachstan
sb
10.05.2011 / Neue Presse
HEINRICH HACKT HOLZ
Stefan Arndt
10.05.2011 / Hannoveraner Zeitung HAZ
Recherche in der Steppe
Marion von Zieglauer
06.05.2011 / Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Zack zack, Kalaschnikow!
Christine Wahl
30.04.2011 / Tagesspiegel
Bei Wut hilft Holzhacken
TOM MUSTROPH
29.04.2011 / Tageszeitung
Fruchtbare Lücken
Doris Meierhenrich
29.04.2011 / Berliner Zeitung
Nachrichten aus Öldorado
u.weinzierl
05.04.2011 / Die Welt
Rimini Protokoll: Migration, Artificiality, and the City on the Axis of Time
Annamaria Cascetta
11.11.2015 / Humanity in performance. European Theatre as a bridge between the 20th and the 21st centuries. Anthem Press (London)