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
- 21 June 2026 /// PARADA NARRNIA, Wasserkultur Festival, Zeuthen
- 27 June 2026 /// HOMO BOTANICUS – mit Planzen tanzen, Fète de la Viertel, #platten#spiel#ball, Kanaltheater, Eberswalde
- 3–4 July 2026 /// GLOBALL, International Street Theatre Festival ViaThea, Görlitz – 30th anniversary
- 5 July 2026 /// GLOBALL, Internationales Straßentheaterfest, Hoyerswerda
- 17–25 July 2026 /// Street theatre workshop on the theme of migration — In cooperation with the Deutsch-Französisches Forum Junger Kunst, Bayreuth, Open call from April
- 7 August 2026 /// New site-specific production: WHISPERING TOWERS for the Openart Lausitz Biennale, Lauchhammer
WHISPERING TOWERS
Site-specific performance
Openart Lausitz Biennale: Biotürme, Lauchhammer
Friday, August 7
Doors open and headphone distribution from 7:30 PM; performance starts at 8:30 PM
Combining vertical performance and light installation, we are activating the striking industrial monument of the Biotürme, once part of the GDR’s largest coking plant. Within the staged audio walk the voices of the plant’s former workers come to life, interwoven with musical improvisations. Industrial history becomes an immersive experience, raising questions about the future.
more here: https://openart-lausitz-biennale.de/de/biennale/programm/lauchhammer-biotuerme
Admission free, tickets limited, register quickly: [email protected]
Global Amazonia
a visual façade performance with live music and live video projections
This site specific performance fuses ancient wisdom with current philosophies and creates a spectacular event for the eye, ear, heart and brain. It brings the topic of climate change to a broad audience in a low-threshold way.
GloBALL
mobile, interactive stilt theatre Football players in oversize transform the globe
created for:
Why easy, if you can make it difficult? Grotest Maru, Berlin’s specialists for verticals theatre, make use of stilts to play football. Six characters create in the middle of the fan fest in Berlin an absurde play around a ball, which is as well our earth. Is the globe fitting into a goal? The Fußballkultursommer Berlin 2024 is conceptualized and produced by Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Berlin Cultural players and programmer partners.
Schwarm
mobile stilt theatre with live sound and live video projections
The audience is guided in an audio-visual expedition through urban or rural sites, being part of a swarm of migrant birds on stilts and experiencing high quality live sound in silent disco headphones.
THE CRANES FLY!
landscape theatre with autobiographic interviews, live acoustics and live video
This performative audio-walk invites the audience to an experiential promenade, connecting narrations about migrating birds with the wider topic of migration. Performative images in the landscape fuse with a soundtrack of interview material and electronic music.
Open training
New format for performers of the network and interested artists.
We research the performativ principles of our work!
Our OUTDOOR SUMMER Training is having a rest....:
please register if you are interested: [email protected]
SPECIAL 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.