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
PROPELLER
will be performed on
June 18th 2022, in a site specific version for the Opening of the Kultursommerfestival Berlin at Flughafen Tempelhof,
June 24th 2022, at the Closing Ceremony of the Special Olympics at Brandenburger Tor,
June 25th 2022, also in a site specific version at Jahrmarkt, Burg Klempenow, Breest
SCHWARM
We are happy to play SCHWARM this summer in Berlin and Stralsund !
July 24th 2022, as part of the Kultursommerfestival Berlin at Osram-Höfe
August 19th 2022, at Spurwechsel Festival, Stralsund
NEUSTART KULTUR & Kleist Forum Frankfurt/ Oder
GLOBAL AMAZONIA
We got another grant from the Fonds Darstellende Künste (Performing Arts Fund) in the NEUSTART KULTUR program for creating our new production GLOBAL AMAZONIA. The premiere will be in Kooperation with the Kleist Forum Frankfurt/Oder on 16th September 2022 !
new dates for 2022
a fair of words and games
April 4th 2022, 5th landing, Grundschule Friedland
May 21st 2022, 6th landing, Neuzelle
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/ Landkreis 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“.
VIDEOS: Mara Stirner
videos online
SCHWARM – an audio-visual expedition
Two videos of our new stilt theater production SCHWARM - an audio-visual expedition with the help of funding in the program Neustart Kultur / #TakeAction, Fonds Darstellende Künste are now online :
One is a montage of our performances at Bärenquell Brauerei Berlin and at the Sculptures Garden of the Institut für Kunst und Kultur e.V. in Lehnin, the
other one is a staging in natural environment, in the land of the cranes, Brandenburg.
new video
a fairy tale parade with vertical dance
Also a new video with impressions of PARADA NARRNIA in a special version with
vertical dance at the season opening 2021/2022 of Kleist
Forum is now online:
new videos
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 you find two
new trailers and two documentary videos of the daytime and nighttime performances :
Video TIMEBANK - Trailer Night
Video TIMEBANK - Documentation Day
Video TIMEBANK - Documentation Night
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.