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Black Bismarck revisited

2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Otto von Bismarck. Revisiting their project on the division of Africa, now as a lecture-performance, andcompany&Co. ask: Is there anything to celebrate?

As part of Return to Sender
Artistic positions from Egypt, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Mozambique and South Africa, March 6 – 15 / HAU1, HAU2, HAU3

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Cast

conceived and performed by andcompany&Co.
feat. Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma&Co.
stage design: Jan Brokof&Co.
production: Sigrid Hilmer
company management: Katja Sonnemann

A production by andcompany&Co. based on the lecture-performance “BLACK BISMARCK previsited“ as part of Foreign Affairs / Berliner Festspiele (2012) and the theatre production “BLACK BISMARCK“ (2013) in coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, deSingel (Antwerpen), FFT (Düsseldorf), Ringlokschuppen Ruhr (Mülheim), Theater im Pumpenhaus (Münster).

With funding subsidies provided by the Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds), the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs and Kunststiftung NRW.

  • Jan Brokof

    Jan Brokof was born in Schwedt/Oder in 1977 and studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2004. He became known for the replica of his own bedsit and won the Marion-Ermer-Prize in 2005. Numerous solo and group exhibitions, for instance at Folkwang Museum Essen and Leonhardi Museum Dresden, and since 2010 collaborations with andcompany&Co. as performer and stage designer for FatzerBraz in São Paulo and as stage designer for productions at DT Göttingen (Wunderkinder and Zur Sache!) as well as for the two recent productions  „Der (kommende) Aufstand nach Friedrich Schiller“ (2012) und „Black Bismarck“ (2013).
    Brokof was awarded the Otto-Dix-Prize in 2012. He lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Galeria Baer

     

  • Alexander Karschnia

    Theatre-maker and author, curator and occasional dramaturge. Co-founder of andcompany&Co., where he works as a co-director and performer. He writes about and for theatre, including Brecht, Müller, Schlingensief, Pollesch and others. Among the sins of his youth are the invention of the Frankfurt NightDanceDemos and the take over of Schlingensief’s political party CHANCE 2000. His work between science, art and activism includes lecture performances and the organisation of conferences such as EUROPE TO THE COUNCILS! at the Berlin Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, where he worked as dramaturge in the first season of René Pollesch’s directorship and curated a discourse series in the Roter Salon. He is also on the board of trustees of the KOMMUNIKATIONSAUFBAU Foundation and co-founded the “Albert O. Hirschman Prize for Interference, Contradiction and Renewal of Democratic Culture”. Karschnia is the editor of the new edition of his key work “Exit, Voice, & Loyalty”. He is currently organising the series “Thinking for the Future: The Albert O. Hirschman Effect” at the Theater im Aufbau Haus.

     

  • Nicola Nord

    theatre-maker, performer and singer. After she studied theatre-, film- and media-science at the University in Frankfurt/Main, she received an artists’ grant for DasArts (The Amsterdam School for Performing Arts). little red (play): ‘herstory’ was her final project there. She is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and contributes to the collective’s work mainly as director, co-writer and performer. Lives in Berlin.

  • Sascha Sulimma

    theatre-maker, music-producer, performer and and DJ from Frankfurt am Main, now living in Berlin, develops acoustic landscapes and music for theater and performance. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. where he works as a co-director, musician and performer.