WHAT ARE INSIGHTS?
At the centre of our INSIGHTS are encounters in the theatre and through the theatre. As a communication platform at Berliner Ensemble, we offer various formats and initiatives to give you insights into our theatre and our productions. We would like to give everyone the opportunity to experience the theatre as a place and as a medium. Berliner Ensemble is a space for encounters: encounters between stories, aesthetics, generations, viewing habits, opinions, notions, humour, biographies – in short: between people.
In our INSIGHT-formats, we give you a practical view of the special circumstances of how a theatre production is created. We would like to open up spaces for you to exchange ideas, to make or watch theatre together!
INSIGHTS: PRACTICE
INSIGHTS: PRACTICE is the English version of our workshops. These 90-minute workshops provide a concrete approach to the content and aesthetic principles of the production in question. You will explore questions of content and aesthetic forms, and analyse characters as well as individual aspects of the given topic. Theatre educational games and acting exercises will give you a practical access to theatre work. You will become actors for a short while, gain insights into the content and acting on stage and exchange your thoughts with us and among each other.
INSIGHTS: SPECIAL
INSIGHTS: SPECIAL is an additional once-a-month event. With a different topical issue each month, we explore various facets of our plays and productions by meeting the people who invent and produce them. This means that dramaturgs, directors, actors, dancers, authors, make-up artists, props persons and many others will present their work – sometimes still in progress – to you and invite you to join them in their profession.
At slightly longer intervals, we invite you to be “up close and personal” to the process of developing a project. The production teams will open their doors to the visitors of Berliner Ensemble, who are invited to attend an open rehearsal.
INSIGHTS: THEATRE WEEKEND
For all those who want even more theatre experiences, we offer Theatre Weekends with two four-hour workshops which take a close look at one individual production, its content and its aesthetics. There will be an opportunity to try your hand at acting and to discuss a wide range of perspectives. Exchanging ideas and experiencing the theatre together are at the centre of these events. And on Saturday night, we will all watch the production together!
INSIGHTS: OPEN SPACE
Theatre Meeting Point for Everyone
We will create a space where we can experiment together and have fun. Twice a month, we will open our work-room to everyone who is interested in trying out acting. We will look at a range of different theatre styles, we will try improvisation and focus on gestures and facial expressions, or the voice, or the text. Young or older, theatre newbies or theatre enthusiasts – everyone is welcome!
GUIDED TOURS BEHIND THE SCENES
Would you like to take a look behind the scenes of the world-famous Brecht-theatre? We offer guided tours in English at regular intervals. You can find the dates for our "Guided Tour behind the Scenes" also in our monthly programme. The tour takes approximately one hour and costs 5 Euros per person, or 3 Euro for reduced tickets. For individual group bookings, please contact us.
Gallery
Events
Insights: Practice Theatre Workshop about Othello
on 6th of december, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Tickets
Guided Tour behind the Scenes of Berliner Ensemble
on 23rd of december, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
CONTACT
We would like to invite all those interested to join us on a journey of INSIGHTS into Berliner Ensemble. This invitation is for everyone: young and older, theatre enthusiasts and theatre newbies. Come and visit us. We’re looking forward to welcoming you!
GERALDINE BLOMBERG, HEAD OF THEATRE EDUCATION
EINBLICKE@BERLINER-ENSEMBLE.DE
(030) 28408-134
MONA WAHBA, THEATRE EDUCATION
SOPHIE HEUER, FSJK
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