program

Do trees have rights? – When Christopher D. Stone asked this question a good 50 years ago, it sounded downright naïve, at least innocent. But in view of the current ecological threats, the rights of nature could prove to be a decisive lever to put a stop to disastrous developments such as the climate crisis and species extinction. For this reason, more and more states are declaring individual actors of nature to be legal subjects. In 2022, for example, the Rivière Magpie in Canada and the Mar Menor saltwater lagoon in Spain acquired the status of legal entities. Are we thus at the beginning of a huge cultural transformation movement?

In Lawyers of Nature, conférencieuse Carrie Getman de Agudo, accompanied by music legend Kevin Mooney, embarks on a tour d’horizon to look at the changing relationship between nature and law. Soon the planned visit turns into a wild journey that leads not only into the past and present but also into the future. With the traditional concept of an object-like nature, the historical continuum that leads from the dark zones of the mythical ages into the light-flooded world of omniscient rationality also collapses.

Authentic actors, together with protagonists from dance and drama, open gates to a wondrous tomorrow that awaits courageous explorers ready to face the core question: What kind of nature do we want?

With: Claudia Burckhardt, Nils Emmerichs , Ziv Frenkel , Carrie Getman de Agudo, Shirly Klengel, Charlotte Maier, Kevin Mooney, Frank Raddatz , Maria Vittoria Zinoni

Stage : Mark Lammert
Costumes : Isa Dorn
Music : Kevin Mooney
Choreography : Ziv Frenkel / Sara Lu
Video : Avo Krapelian
Assistance : Lilly Meyer / Konstantin Züllich

Funded by the Stiftung kulturelle Erneuerung.

01.12.2022

7:30 pm

RambaZamba Theater

Schönhauser Allee 36–39, 10435 Berlin

04.12.2022

2 pm

Panel discussion: Rights of Nature as a Cultural Turn

RambaZamba Theater

Schönhauser Allee 36–39, 10435 Berlin

04.12.2022

6 pm

RambaZamba Theater

Schönhauser Allee 36–39, 10435 Berlin

26.05.2023

6:30 pm

Kestner Gesellschaft

Goseriede 11, 30159 Hannover

26.08.2023

7:30 pm

Art Carnuntum

Römerstadt Carnuntum Hauptstraße 1A, 2404 Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria

14.10.2023

7:30 pm

RambaZamba Theater

Schönhauser Allee 36–39, 10435 Berlin

23.01.2024

8:00 pm

Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen

Eberhardstr. 6, 72072 Tübingen

10.10.2024

7:00 pm

Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg

Kirchenallee 39, 20099 Hamburg

What does climate change mean for water, the substance on which we depend even more than on gas and oil? In the play of the same name, Kathrin Röggla paints a picture of a society oscillating between heavy rain and intense heat, a society that every day comes closer to the growing precipices of excessive demand. 
The staged reading draws attention to a transformation that has already begun and represents one of the greatest challenges of our time.

The author will be present at the subsequent discussion, as will scientists from the Berlin University Alliance-funded AnthropoScenes project and CliWaC (Einstein Research Unit Climate and Water under Change), in order to engage in an active dialogue with the audience on the urgent topic of water issues in the future.

Reading
Claudia Burckhardt
Alexander Ebeert
Sarah Franke
Helmut Mooshammer
Sylvana Seddig

Text
Kathrin Röggla

Discussion
Dr. Sonja Knopp, Technische Universität Berlin (11.09.2022)
Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (11.09.2022)
Dr. Des. Desirée Hetzel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (12.09.2022)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Krüger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (12.09.2022)
Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (11.09.2022)
Prof. Kathrin Röggla, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (11. & 12.09.2022)

Scenic arrangement & morderation
Dr. Frank Raddatz

The event is a production of the Theatre of the Anthropocene in cooperation with the international literature festival berlin (ilb) and the AnthropoScenes project, which is funded by the Berlin University Alliance as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

11.09.2022

7:30 pm

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin

12.09.2022

7:30 pm

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin

Event series

A Salon on the Future of Water in Berlin-Brandenburg

Inspired by the Berlin salons of the 18th century, AnthropoScenes will host an evening filled with performances, art and science to explore climate and water in Berlin-Brandenburg. Join musician Kevin Mooney (former bassist with ‘Adam and the Ants’), dancer Ziv Frenkel, actress Claudia Burckhardt, as well as researchers from various Berlin universities to exchange and create sustainable water futures. In addition to the performances, participative surprises as well as spontaneous performances await! Light fare and drinks will be provided.
Funded under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder by the Berlin University Alliance, the event is a close cooperation of the Theater des Anthropozän, the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and the Freie Universität Berlin (FU).

Scenic arrangement
Frank Raddatz

22.04.2022

6:00 pm

Humboldt Labor im Humboldt Forum

Schloßplatz 10718 Berlin-Mitte

23.04.2022

6:00 pm

Humboldt Labor im Humboldt Forum

Schloßplatz 10718 Berlin-Mitte

24.04.2022

6:00 pm

Humboldt Labor im Humboldt Forum

Schloßplatz 10718 Berlin-Mitte

Event series

For years, news about the decline of bee colonies has frightened the public. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Not only is a severe insect mortality in full swing, all small animals on and under the ground are affected. Even if they do not pollinate plants like flying insects, they are indispensable for the food chain because they organise the fertility of the soil through permanent underground burrows. However, if they are systematically decimated with chemicals and increasingly deprived of their habitats through the continuous sealing of surfaces, they are less and less able to provide this fertility.

Scientists and artists have joined forces to illuminate our relationship to these critters, these underground and above-ground creatures, in a performance. Musically, dancingly, performatively and discursively, the ensemble approaches an alien world directly beneath our feet and encounters surprising relationships between the invertebrates of the earth and our own species, which already amazed Charles Darwin.

Taking part in the show are bassist Kevin Mooney, who once played in the – nomen est omen – legendary formation >Adam and the Ants<, street actor Peter Trabner, internationally renowned dancer Ziv Frenkel and Göhkan Çalışkan as compere. The formation will be complemented by scientists who will inform about the latest developments concerning the soil and its creatures.

With
Claudia Burckhardt
Göhkan Çalışkan
Ziv Frenkel
Kevin Mooney
Peter Trabner
and guests from the world of science 

Concept
Frank Raddatz

Scenic arrangement
Frank Raddatz
Vincent Burckhardt

Film music
David Rimsky-Korsakov

 

With video recordings from the virtual reality world “Abenteuer Bodenleben” of the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz.

02.07.2021

8:30 pm

Wissensstadt Berlin

Platz vor dem Roten Rathaus, 10718 Berlin-Mitte

19. & 20.08.2021

8 pm

Open Humboldt Festival Berlin

Campus Nord, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

27.08.2021

6 pm

Umweltbundesamt in Dessau

Wörlitzer Pl. 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau

30.09.2021

Robert Bosch Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

20.10.2023
8 pm

Nantesbucher Bodentage

Langes Haus, Karpfsee 12, 83670 Bad Heilbrunn

Event series

The forest is the protagonist of the hour. Global climate change is drawing the world’s diverse forests together into a global phenomenon that is taking up more and more space in the daily news. Thus, the ring of fires in Africa, the devastating fires in the Amazon region, are followed by huge bush fires in Australia. One of the main effects of the Anthropocene is the change in the general conditions. None of what seemed self-evident in terms of climate, fauna and flora still appears so today.

REQUIEM FOR A FOREST focuses in particular on the relationship between people and forests, which has captured the imagination of people since the earliest traditions, whether in the epics of the Sumerians or the Nordic Edda. But even today, trees and forests are still the centre of interest, as shown by the numerous recent publications on this subject, among which the Pulitzer Prize 2019 winning “Tree” novel “The Roots of Life” by Richard Powers stands out. The scenic reading embarks on a geological and literary, vertical and horizontal journey to unleash a transformed view of the forest as a local and global actor.

Part of the profile of the Theatre of the Anthropocene is to approach the themes and motifs both with poetic sequences and with scientific approaches. Therefore, in addition to renowned actors, experts from science and forestry participate in order to ground the expanded view of the forest both artistically and at the current level of knowledge.

The event will be followed by a public discussion.

Actors
David Bennent
Claudia Burckhardt
Kevin Mooney
Meiting Shi
Leopold von Verschuer

Stage
Mark Lammert

Concept
Antje Boetius
Frank Raddatz

Scenic arrangement
Frank Raddatz

With guests from science and forestry
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius 
Dr. Katrin Möller 

For more information as well as video and photo material on REQUIEM FOR A FOREST see DIGITAL

Sa.

07.03.2020

8:00 pm

Tieranatomisches Theater

Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sa.

18.04.2020

8:00 pm

Tieranatomisches Theater

Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sa.

06.06.2020

8:00 pm

Tieranatomisches Theater

Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Fr.

08.06.2020

6:00 pm

GUEST PERFORMANCE: Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership

Digital event

Fr.

09.10.2020

8:00 pm

Tieranatomisches Theater

Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Fr.

09.10.2020

7:00 pm

GUEST PERFORMANCE: Silbersalz Science & Media Festival

Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche, Christian-Wolff-Straße 2, 06108 Halle (Saale)

Do.

15.10.2020

8:00 pm

GUEST PERFORMANCE: Web Plattform Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit. Ein kreativer Austausch in Europa

Digital Event

Sa.

24.07.2021
10:30 am

GUEST PERFORMANCE: Good Morning Eberswalde

Forstbotanischer Garten, Schwappachweg 15, 16225 Eberswalde

Fr.

22.10.2021
8 pm

GUEST PERFORMANCE: Thementage Anthropozän

Langes Haus, Karpfsee 12, 83670 Bad Heilbrunn

Event series

The consequences of man-made climate change are already visible and noticeable everywhere. From the warming and acidification of the oceans to the melting of the polar ice caps, from sea-level rise to the multifaceted extinction of species, the consequences including the threat to human existence from natural disasters, pandemics, escapes and migrations. The challenges exposed to humanity can only be overcome, if states may act together across national borders and establish an awareness of the problem in society through a small circle of scientific experts and committed activists.

 

The Chinese-German online dialogue series “Me(er)tamorphoses” invites scientists and artists from both countries to engage in a cross-border and interdisciplinary discussion about the manifold challenges and opportunities of the Anthropocene paradigm shift. The “protagonist” of these international dialogue series is WATER in its various aggregate states. Water is the indispensable and in the meantime highly changeable raw material of life, which forming landscapes in the form of ice and snow and giving the planet an unmistakable signature in the form of rivers, lakes or seas. The living world of water inspires art, which is reflected in the great seafaring stories throughout the centuries and stimulates the thinking of philosophy as material. While the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales of Miletus recognized “the origin and principle of all things” in water, Laozi attributed to this element the principle of “highest goodness”, which “benefits all beings without dispute”. Water thus becomes the carrier of philosophical insights which both differentiate and connect Western and Eastern thoughts. 

The series of events, which starts at the interface between science and art, was initiated jointly by “Chinese-German University College” of Tongji University Shanghai and “Theatre of the Anthropocene” of Humboldt University Berlin. Project partners include Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, DAAD and Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Sa.​

10.10.2020

10:00 am

Of Humans and the Sea

Digital event

Sa.​

14.11.2020

10:00 am

The Knowledge of Water / Literary Seafaring

Digital event

Sa.​

12.12.2020

10:00 am

Water - Resource of Life
Global Problems and Local Solutions

Digital event

Special event at Lausitz Festival

What do dinosaurs, the Lausitz and US tobacco advertising have in common? The musical lecture performance “How to Fake a Meteor: Playing with Planetary Parameters” explores the connection between aesthetics and ecology, creating a bridge not only from the Mesozoic to the present day, but also from the local to the global.

With 
Anita Iselin
Kevin Mooney
Frank Raddatz
Meiting Shi 

Concept, Text and Directing
Frank Raddatz

Music
Kevin Mooney

Sa.​

03.10.2020

7:30 pm

Neue Bühne Senftenberg

Theaterpassage 1, 01968 Senftenberg

So.​

04.10.2020

6:00 pm

Neue Bühne Senftenberg

Theaterpassage 1, 01968 Senftenberg

New Year Reception of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Reading and performance at the New Year Reception of the President of the Humboldt University Berlin.

With
Hannah Blank
Claudia Burckhardt
Alex Gerner
Marvin Münstermann
Cristoph Schneider
Sonnhild Trujillo 
Leopold von Verschuer

Scenic Arrangement
Frank Raddatz

Tue.

11.02.2020

6:00 pm

Senatssaal

Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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