visual site specific
Grotest Maru creates theatre in public spaces and is inspired by visual, physical, and object theatre, as well as installation and landart.
upcoming projects
a fairy tale parade with vertical dance
We are happy to play the special version with vertical dance of PARADA NARRNIA on September 10th, 2021 at 5pm at Kleist Forum in Frankfurt/Oder in the frame of the festival
"20 Jahre Kleist Forum - Das große Wiedersehen" !
Our new creation
SCHWARM – an audio-visual
expedition
was a great success, and we were very pleased to present our new stilt theater production SCHWARM - an audio-visual expedition with the help of funding in the program Neustart
Kultur / #TakeAction, Fonds Darstellende Künste and premiere it in cooperation with Revier Südost at Bärenquell Brauerei in Schöneweide!
We had also the chance to show a night version for an outdoor stage at festival Sommerwerft
in Frankfurt/Main and a day version at Lehniner Institut für Kunst und Kultur
more details about the project here...
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the program #TakeAction.
We are happy to announce the new dates for 2021:
Fahrbibliothek LOS & Grotest Maru & Heike Scharpff
LeseUFO
a fair of words and games
- June 19th, 2021, 2nd landing, Lindenberg, Cooperation with Wettermuseum
- August 28th, 2021, 3rd landing, Woltersdorf, Kulturhaus Alte Schule
- September 26th, 2021, 4th landing, Steinhöfel, Cooperation with the Apple Festival
- Spring 2022, 5th landing, Neuzelle, 2022
- Summer 2022, 6th landing, location tbc
The Aliens are coming to study the knowledge container book of humankind and research about it with words, images and movements. What moves humanity?
LeseUFO, a cooperation between the Fahrbibliothek of Landkreises Oder-Spree, Grotest Maru and Heike Scharpff, is funded in the years 2020 and 2021 by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in the Fonds „hochdrei – Stadtbibliotheken verändern“.
TIMEBANK REVIEW
As part of the 25th anniversary and after 10 years of touring national and international festivals, we finally showed the full version of TIMEBANK in Berlin, in the frame
of Summer of Performance at Bärenquell Brauerei in cooperation with Revier Südost.
Here some of our reviews:
an interview by Christian Behring with Ursula Maria Berzborn on Youtube about the artistic work of Grotest Maru
NEW TRAILERS
Open Training
New format for performers of the network and interested artists.
We research the performativ principles of our work!
OUTDOOR SUMMER Training:
date coming soon!!
please register if you are interested: grotestmaru@grotest-maru.de
latest projects
The KuLe Book is still available!
With numerous images of interventions in public space, early street theatre actions, actual pictures and pics of the beginnings of Grotest Maru and interesting articles of Grotest Maru members.
More information here:
Erinnerungslabor / Storytelling Laboratory
Spreepark 2019
The film
is ready!!!!
Ole Jacobs created and edited a documentation film in collaboration with Grotest Maru.
Homo Botanicus dancing with plants
site specific special at Spreepark Berlin
Spaziert ins Grün! OPEN AIR THEATER Labor
September 2020
6 Stations with productions of Berlin Street Theatre
Artistis
MORE IN 2021!!!
Landpartie 2020
Church meets bus stop - places of encounter
A journey of discovery through the Uecker-Randow-Tal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and encounters with the expressionist artist Paul Holz, talking bus stops, sounding churches, sunken manor houses and Huguenot tobacco farmers.