The Berlin Circle Audio Walk
by _Daniel Brunet (US / DE)
#Charles Mee #Mauerfall #East Berlin #Binaural audio #Theater
9.08.14 / 13:00-15:00 - at 12:00: introduction with Daniel Brunet, in collaboration with Theaterscoutings Berlin
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
10.08.14 / 13:00-15:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
_for the latest updates please follow the Facebook event for this tour.
DETAILS:
_duration: 2 hrs
_language: DE / EN
_number of participants: 20-30
_the participants should bring an mp3 player or smartphone as well as headphones
_in case of last minute changes you wil be also informed through your e-mail or phone
9.08.14 / 13:00-15:00 - at 12:00: introduction with Daniel Brunet, in collaboration with Theaterscoutings Berlin
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
10.08.14 / 13:00-15:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
_for the latest updates please follow the Facebook event for this tour.
DETAILS:
_duration: 2 hrs
_language: DE / EN
_number of participants: 20-30
_the participants should bring an mp3 player or smartphone as well as headphones
_in case of last minute changes you wil be also informed through your e-mail or phone
Meeting point: main entrance to the Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, S/U Friedrichstraße
EN /
The Berlin Circle Audio Walk
On November 9, the world will mark the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and with it the beginning of the end of the socalled Cold War between the capitalist west and communist east, ensuring the dominance of our current globalized market economy. A quarter of a century later, what does all this mean?
Ten years after the Fall of the Wall, noted US playwright and historian Charles Mee wrote Berlin Circle, a collagelike collection of spectacular events set on November 9, 1989 which takes a decidedly satirical look at the end of East Germany and the western feeding frenzy that descended upon the former state property.
Offered in collaboration with English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center, this binaural audio walk with original dialog through the real locations of Berlin Circle by Charles Mee is led by the Producing Artistic Director of ETB | IPAC, Daniel Brunet, and will take the audience from the Berliner Ensemble to Checkpoint Charlie and the Pergamon Museum. Actors have been recorded performing dialog from Mee's text at these locations that the audience will listen to via headphones, visually juxtaposed with the present reality of these sites. Commentary by the tour guide about today's Berlin accompanies all of this as a third level of time lapse.
This audio walk serves as the opening of the larger ETB | IPAC project 25 Jahre Mauerfall or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ossis/Wessis and will be repeated in September and November 2014. For more information, please visit www.etberlin.de
DE /
The Berlin Circle Audio Walk
Am 9. November wird die Welt dem 25. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls gedenken und mit ihm dem Anfang des Endes des sogenannten Kalten Krieges zwischen dem kapitalistischen Westen und dem kommunistischen Osten, der Dominanz unserer globalen Marktwirtschaft sichergestellt hat. Ein Vierteljahrhundert später - was bedeutet all das?
Zehn Jahre nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer entwarf der US-amerikanische Dramatiker und Historiker Charles Mee "Berlin Circle", eine collageartige Sammlung spektakulärer Ereignisse vom 9. November 1989, die einen dezidiert satirischen Blick auf das Ende der DDR und den westlichen Rausch, sich das ehemalige Staatseigentum einzuverleiben, wirft.
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center führt dieser binaurale Audio-Spaziergang mit originalen Dialogen durch die realen Orte aus Charles Mees “Berlin Circle”. Daniel Brunet, Produzierender Künstlerischer Leiter des ETB | IPAC führt das Publikum vom Berliner Ensemble zum Checkpoint Charlie und dem Pergamonmuseum, wo das Publikum Dialogen aus Mees Texten folgt, die vorher von Schauspielern eingesprochen wurden. Die Aufnahmen überlagern die Realität vor Ort derart, dass sie eine Deutungs- und Verständnisebene eröffnen, die von den Kommentaren des Reiseleiters über das heutige Berlin begleitet und auf eine dritte Ebene dieses Zeitraffers überführt werden.
Dieser Audio-Spaziergang dient als Öffnung des größeren ETB | IPAC Projekts 25 Jahre Mauerfall oder: Wie ich gelernt habe mir keine Sorge zu machen und die Ossis / Wessis zu lieben - und wird im September und November 2014 wiederholt. Weitere Informationen unter: www.etberlin.de
_author / guide:
Daniel Brunet was born in Syracuse, New York in 1979 and studied theater and film at Boston College. He moved to Berlin in 2001 with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship and began a career as a freelance theater maker. Brunet founded THE LAB at English Theatre Berlin during his 2003/2004 directing residency. He was the Associate Director/Associate Producer of German Theater Abroad in Berlin and New York from 2005 to 2008. His directorial work has been seen at venues including Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Performance Space 122, New York. Brunet has received multiple awards for his translations of German plays by writers including Dea Loher, Falk Richter, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Heiner Müller. His translations and essays have been published in PEN America, The Mercurian, Asymptote, Theater, TheatreForum, Contemporary Theatre Review and alt.theatre. Brunet became Producing Artistic Director of English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center in 2012.
The Berlin Circle Audio Walk
On November 9, the world will mark the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and with it the beginning of the end of the socalled Cold War between the capitalist west and communist east, ensuring the dominance of our current globalized market economy. A quarter of a century later, what does all this mean?
Ten years after the Fall of the Wall, noted US playwright and historian Charles Mee wrote Berlin Circle, a collagelike collection of spectacular events set on November 9, 1989 which takes a decidedly satirical look at the end of East Germany and the western feeding frenzy that descended upon the former state property.
Offered in collaboration with English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center, this binaural audio walk with original dialog through the real locations of Berlin Circle by Charles Mee is led by the Producing Artistic Director of ETB | IPAC, Daniel Brunet, and will take the audience from the Berliner Ensemble to Checkpoint Charlie and the Pergamon Museum. Actors have been recorded performing dialog from Mee's text at these locations that the audience will listen to via headphones, visually juxtaposed with the present reality of these sites. Commentary by the tour guide about today's Berlin accompanies all of this as a third level of time lapse.
This audio walk serves as the opening of the larger ETB | IPAC project 25 Jahre Mauerfall or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ossis/Wessis and will be repeated in September and November 2014. For more information, please visit www.etberlin.de
DE /
The Berlin Circle Audio Walk
Am 9. November wird die Welt dem 25. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls gedenken und mit ihm dem Anfang des Endes des sogenannten Kalten Krieges zwischen dem kapitalistischen Westen und dem kommunistischen Osten, der Dominanz unserer globalen Marktwirtschaft sichergestellt hat. Ein Vierteljahrhundert später - was bedeutet all das?
Zehn Jahre nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer entwarf der US-amerikanische Dramatiker und Historiker Charles Mee "Berlin Circle", eine collageartige Sammlung spektakulärer Ereignisse vom 9. November 1989, die einen dezidiert satirischen Blick auf das Ende der DDR und den westlichen Rausch, sich das ehemalige Staatseigentum einzuverleiben, wirft.
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center führt dieser binaurale Audio-Spaziergang mit originalen Dialogen durch die realen Orte aus Charles Mees “Berlin Circle”. Daniel Brunet, Produzierender Künstlerischer Leiter des ETB | IPAC führt das Publikum vom Berliner Ensemble zum Checkpoint Charlie und dem Pergamonmuseum, wo das Publikum Dialogen aus Mees Texten folgt, die vorher von Schauspielern eingesprochen wurden. Die Aufnahmen überlagern die Realität vor Ort derart, dass sie eine Deutungs- und Verständnisebene eröffnen, die von den Kommentaren des Reiseleiters über das heutige Berlin begleitet und auf eine dritte Ebene dieses Zeitraffers überführt werden.
Dieser Audio-Spaziergang dient als Öffnung des größeren ETB | IPAC Projekts 25 Jahre Mauerfall oder: Wie ich gelernt habe mir keine Sorge zu machen und die Ossis / Wessis zu lieben - und wird im September und November 2014 wiederholt. Weitere Informationen unter: www.etberlin.de
_author / guide:
Daniel Brunet was born in Syracuse, New York in 1979 and studied theater and film at Boston College. He moved to Berlin in 2001 with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship and began a career as a freelance theater maker. Brunet founded THE LAB at English Theatre Berlin during his 2003/2004 directing residency. He was the Associate Director/Associate Producer of German Theater Abroad in Berlin and New York from 2005 to 2008. His directorial work has been seen at venues including Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Performance Space 122, New York. Brunet has received multiple awards for his translations of German plays by writers including Dea Loher, Falk Richter, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Heiner Müller. His translations and essays have been published in PEN America, The Mercurian, Asymptote, Theater, TheatreForum, Contemporary Theatre Review and alt.theatre. Brunet became Producing Artistic Director of English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center in 2012.
Photo: S/w-Ausschnitt Fotograf: Gert Schütz, © Landesarchiv Berlin, K00532, Bildmontage: ETB | IPAC
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