Rimini Protokoll

Rimini Protokoll is a German theatre group founded in 2000 by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel. They create stage plays, interventions, scenic installations, and radio plays. Many of their works are characterized by interactivity and a playful use of technology.

Background
The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at University of Giessen, Hesse, Germany. They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.

Awards and recognition

 * 2007 — Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis award, for their staging of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Volume I
 * 2007 — Der Faust award in the "Sonderpreis" category
 * 2008 — Europe Theatre Prize – Thessaloniki
 * 2008 — Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden prize, for their radio play Karl Marx: The Capital, Vol.1
 * 2013 – Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Situation Rooms
 * 2015 — Hans-Reinhart-Ring

Literature

 * 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: Situation Rooms Program book in English (PDF download)
 * Gomila, Andreu: Rimini Protokoll, escultors del temps / Sculptors of Time, Barcelona, 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)

Video portraits

 * John Paul Tansey: The Making of 100% Melbourne, Melbourne 2012
 * Imanuel Schipper in conversation with Rimini Protokoll, reART:theURBAN by ARCH+, Zurich, Gessnerallee, 25–27 October 2012
 * 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: Theatre Beyond Its Boundaries. A conversation coinciding with the opening of Rimini Protokoll's Urban Nature, Barcelona, CCCB, 1 July 2021.
 * Andreu Gomila: There is not such a big difference between the audience and us, A portrait of Rimini Protokoll, Barcelona 2021