Lister Meile 4
30161 Hannover
Germany
- Arts
The theaterwerkstatt hannover offers with their aesthetically and highbrow productions lively theater experiences for children, adolescents and adults. In all productions the sensual experience of the content stands in the foreground, through the combination of language, movement, space, light and music.
The substantive decisions for each project are guided by the questions ‘What is our business, what motivates and excites us?’ The task that we face as a theater, is the compression of these questions in an open artistic process. The more freely this process can happen, the more clearer the theater can show new things, can connect the rational contemplation of our world with emotional knowledge and allow collaborative experience and viewing in the theater. A envision and understanding with all the senses, without getting stuck in the pure image - there are enough copies.
The role of the ensemble is crucial, it designs as a creative collective the content for the audience. In this theatre the actor is the creative performer. The spectator is active and alternates between seeing through the open process and fiction. In this ratio lays a profoundly democratic attitude that we want to maintain as a theater.
In addition to our own operation in Hanover, the theatre is internationally connected for years, with co-productions in Japan and Poland and many guest performances in Europe and Asia. From 2005 to 2009 the theaterwerkstatt hannover conceived and managed the european theater project "Babel, or we build a house" for the Goethe-Institut Nancy, Vilnius and Lisbon.
Since 2012, the theaterwerkstatt hannover expanded their international activities in the Arab region, -in the Middle East and North Africa. According to its own touring they organized jointly with the Cultural Center ‘Pavillon’ the theater-meeting about the Arab Spring, in 2014 with the main focus on new era of the women "Aufbruch der Frauen".
Since 2014, the theaterwerkstatt continuously collaborates with the Cultural Center ‘Pavillon’ and we offer under the label of "Theater in the Pavilion" an exciting place for independent theater. Together with the Cultural Centre, the theater offers ideal opportunities for performances, conferences and workshops.
The theaterwerkstatt is preparing a cooperation with Israel / Palestine and in the following with Egypt. Besides our own theater work, we are looking forward to taking a deeper cultural policy discourse in the network.