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
NEW PRODUCTION: SCHWARM –
an audio-visual expedition
We are very pleased to be able to develop our new stilt theater production SCHWARM - an audio-visual expedition with the help of funding in the program Neustart Kultur / TakeAction of the Fonds
Darstellende Künste!
Premiere: August 2021 in Berlin, more soon!! ....
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
- May 29th, 2021, 2nd landing, Woltersdorf, Kulturhaus Alte Schule
- June 19th, 2021, 3nd landing, Lindenberg, Cooperation with Wettermuseum
- August 28th, 2021, 4nd landing, Rauen, at the Pfarrer Bräuer Grundschule
- September 26th, 2021, 5nd landing, Steinhöfel, Cooperation with the Apple Festival
- Spring 2022, 6nd landing, Neuzelle, 2022
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“.
Open Training
New format for performers of the network and interested artists.
We research the performativ principles of our work!
OUTDOOR SPRING 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.