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.
*** Due to Covid-19 restrictions unfortunately many planned touring productions were cancelled or postponed.
Our new productions LeseUFO and LANDPARTIE in October 2020 and our Workshop and our performance of HOMO
BOTANICUS at Spreepark Berlin in September 2020 will take place! More info below! ***
upcoming projects
Landpartie 2020
Church meets bus stop - places of encounter
October 3rd, 2020
10:00 AM Uhlenkrug / 12:00 PM Koblentz / 3:30 PM Bagemühl
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.
Landpartie is a project from schloss bröllin e.V. in cooperation with Grotest Maru and people of the region funded by the Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald and the Fonds Soziokultur. Preparatory workshops were funded by the federal program „Demokratie leben!“ from the Bundesministerium für Familie, Soziales, Frauen und Jugend. The concept for the project "Landpartie 2020" was awarded in the ideas competition "MACHEN!2019".
We are happy to announce a new collaboration:
Grotest Maru & Heike Scharpff
LeseUFO
a fair of words and games
October 10, 11am - 6pm, Müllrose, Festwiese
November 14, 11am - 6pm, Woltersdorf, Alte Schule
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 founded in the years 2020 and 2021 by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in the Fonds „hochdrei – Stadtbibliotheken verändern“.
Open Training
New format for performers of the network and interested artists.
We research the performativ principles of our work!
OUTDOOR Training 2020, meet infront of Kunstquartier Bethanien
October.... date coming soon!!
please register: grotestmaru@grotest-maru.de
latest projects
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!!!
Erinnerungslabor / Storytelling Laboratory
Spreepark 2019
The film
is ready!!!!
Ole Jacobs created and edited a documentation film in collaboration with Grotest Maru.
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: