Rimini Protokoll
Rimini Protokoll is the label of the works of Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel. They produce theatre pieces, radio shows and work in the urban environment in a diverse variety of collaborative partnerships. Using research, auditions and conceptual processes, allowing what they call ‘Experts’ to find their unique voice.
Recent works include Call Cutta in a Box, a one-to-one telephone performance that takes place live from a call centre in India, Hauptversammlung (“Annual General meeting”), a parasitic intervention on the occasion of the shareholders' meeting at Daimler, the multi-player-on-stage-game Best Before (Vancouver 2010), the video-walk Outdoors (National Theatre of Wales 2011) and Lagos Business Angels with nigerian business people (Berlin 2012).
In 2007, Rimini Protokoll have been awarded with the German Faust theatre award DER FAUSTand in 2008 with the European prize for “New Realities in Theatre”. 2011 they were awarded the Silver Lion of the 41th biennale of Venice, established to honour new theatrical realities.