Retrospection: October 2014

October's highlight was performing with COLORI at the Modavision in Magdeburg! Schlemmer's Bauhaus aesthetics at a runway show. Did we fit in? No. Did we have fun? Yes! We shocked some of the security guys, and in the end COLORI even managed to get onto the runway themselves. A friend made pictures, and I still hope I might get them eventually.

Most of the October, however, was spent planning, talking, desk working, workshopping, networking. It was also amazing to finally get to know more colleagues from Bremen! Picture below shows Anna Jäger in the scenography we created at October's FreitagFreitag of Schlachthof Bremen.

And finally some random find:

Due to security reasons bicycles and tables are forbidden in the interior. - Found in one of Bremen's parks. Still totally clueless as to what they mean.

Kulturpflaster in Regensburg

Just returned from Regensburg, after some fantastic days!

The Regensburger Kulturpflaster was actually one of the most cozy-feeling festivals I ever performed at. Travelling and performing on your own always is an adventure and pretty much anything can happen, but in Regensburg I had some three minutes of realization time that I knew no one before I started to get lost in conversations. - And I actually talked with the most amazing and sweet people over the weekend! Artists as well as visitors who came to see Unten and me.

Huge thanks to the Mischkultur e.V. who organized everything as well as to the audience who stayed through rain and masses of other festivities that took place in Regensburg this weekend. It was great fun being and performing at the festival!

Photos: altrofoto (1), Christiane Plank (2 - Thanks a lot to you and Marlene!)

...usually I take pictures from the view I get when I look out of my hotel rooms' windows.
This time I just HAD to take a picture of the place itself:

Some German PS:
Falls ihr Fotos von der Kommode machtet - würdet ihr sie mir mailen? Da ich auf Festivals die ganze Zeit beschäftigt bin fehlt es mir an Fotos. Sowohl für mich zur Dokumentation und Erinnerung, als auch für weiteres Werbematerial. Dass ich den Namen des Fotografen erwähne wäre eine Selbstverständlichkeit. (An dieser Stelle nochmal ein deutschsprachiges Dankeschön an Christiane Plank!)

Und noch was: DU, der mir solange Löcher in den Bauch fragte, bis ich kapitulierte und eine Schublade öffnete: die Baubilder sind versammelt. Mir fehlt bloß die Mailadresse, an die ich sie senden soll!

Retrospection: August 2014

There're always times, at which life just tries to swallow you as a whole - everything happens at once.
Despite struggling to find time to blog I unfortunately didn't manage to do so. Instead I'll post retrospections of highlights. OLALA - Internationales Straßentheater-Festival Lienz (A)

Fotos: BrunnerImages

COLORI at the parade. It was a bliss performing with such a great audience, and the music of the Orchestre International du Vetex, who led the parade on, was just energizing everyone!


Crazy view on the Lienz' Dolomites and from my room's window in the guesthouse. Mountains everywhere! I am fully aware that those photographs are not beautiful in any way, I still had to share them. Having grown up in the north those are just spectacular views for me!


Kulturhaus Pusdorf in Bremen organized Kunst im Camp.
20 children between 11 and 14 years were camping at the Pusdorf Beach. During daytime other kids joined in, and together they took part in several artistical workshops that were offered to them. Hopefully it will be possible to repeat this project in 2015!

No clue who shot this photo... Please contact me in case you know, or are the photographer and want me to remove it.


I found myself a new workshop space! Schule21 will host me from October onwards. Looking very much forward for it!

Retrospection: July 2014

July started well with COLORI at the Memminger Meile! The audience welcomed us with a long applause even before we had done anything. Greatest way to start a show!

Photos: Monika Sparakowski

A picture from backstage I love because of the crooked humour: Even COLORIs (and their family) need to account:

I'm still waiting for photographs of COLORI's show at the Schauwerk Sindelfingen. Green, Red and White behaved beautifully Italian to match the evening's theme of an Italian Night.


Unten was shown at the Festival der Straßenkunst in Haslach.

Photos: Manfred Pagel


And between all this I was extremely lucky to be able to spend some time on Helgoland. For just holiday-y reasons. And it was beautiful!

Ghostcity on Tour! Part 3: Leipzig

More or less the only picture from Leipzig, as there wasn't time to take any more.
Building up (THANK YOU!, Jonas & Anna!), performing, tearing down.

Ah, wait, there is one more:
Enjoy my favorite toilet space!

And go visit the Lindenfels Westflügel! It's an amazing building, theatre and place to meet people!

Ghostcity on Tour! Part 2: Sudden free day...

Working and recherching for Ghostcity somehow opened my eyes concerning architecture.
Remember this entry?
Around that time it started.
Having grown up in more or less rural surroundings I have this huge longing for idyllic spaces, for wood, meadows, sheep in the backyard...
But somehow this is beautiful as well:

Olvenstedt, part of Magdeburg. It's rather weird to stroll through the streets, as so many houses have been teared down already, so many more are empty. It was sunday around noon, and no one was on the streets. Just those huge green spaces, many trees, and houses that nearly appeared to be lost in those greening surroundings.
We stumbled over a handball tournament later, which explained the extreme emptyness on the streets, but still.
Ghostcity gone green.

Ghostcity on Tour! Part 1: Magdeburg

First part of the journey: Magdeburg!

Unfortunately, this

led to that

so that we didn't get further than this

. The hall would have been amazing for our purposes though, and Ralf and his crew who had already started to set up the technical side of our show seemed to be great to work with..
I can fully understand the reasons for cancelling the festival.
Still. It would have been a bliss to work with the people we met and perform for Magdeburg's and the festival's audience! Hoping that it'll really be possible to postphone the whole thing to 2014!