Rimini Protokoll

Rimini Protokoll is a collaboration between the artists Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel.^[2] The three met while attending the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen in Germany.^[3] They are a team of authors, directors, and designers of sound, stage, and videos, who have been working together since 1999.^[4]

A few characteristics typically apply to Rimini Protokoll productions:

• the group works as an artist collective,^[5][6] sometimes including all of them, sometimes only one or two, sometimes collaborating with "outsiders".^[7] They use the name Rimini Protokoll as a common and recognizable label for their productions.^[8][9]
• organization around a protocol rather than a dramatic text, meaning a script that has been developed in rehearsals cooperatively and sets a loose framework for the performance^[10]
• Rimini Protokoll usually work with people they call "experts of the everyday".^[11] This expertise is not associated with theatre, such as acting skills, but rather with a 'real life' competence or a profession that has shaped them^[11][12] Examples include truckers, secret service agents, model train enthusiasts, police officers, etc. These people convey their experiences, stories, clothes, accents, and even specific habitual movements onstage.^[11] This is seen as a key element of Rimini Protokoll's "new documentary theatre".^[12]
• use of media technology^[11]
• staging productions in representative locations or extending the stage to public spaces^[13]

• 2007 — Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis award, for their stage play Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band^[14][15]
• 2007 — Der Faust award in the "Sonderpreis" category^[16]
• 2008 — Europe Theatre Prize – Thessaloniki^[17]
• 2008 — Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden prize, for their radio play Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band^[18]
• 2011 — Silver Lion at the 2011 Theatre Biennale in Venice^[19]
• 2013 — Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Situation Rooms^[20]
• 2015 — Hans-Reinhart-Ring^[21]

Rimini Protokoll have several times been invited to the "10 best" of the theatre festival Berliner Theatertreffen, most recently with "All right. Good night." (2022)^[22] and "Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye" (2020).^[23]

• 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)

• 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

• Official website
• Rimini Protokoll channel on vimeo.com