Das HOUSE – ReInventing the Real

by minus.eins

Das HOUSE – ReInventing the Real © minus.eins

Analogue and digital theatre worlds meet on an equal footing in the work of minus.eins. How do online communities operate and how does digital co-presence work? What disappears in this process and what new elements emerge?

Information on access to the event
The performances will take place online as interactive guided tours with a limited number of participants. Free tickets are available in our webshop. You will then receive all necessary information about access to the performance by e-mail. Those viewers who don’t want to immerse themselves in the world of “Das HOUSE” or were unable to purchase a ticket can watch the live stream of the production.

After-show talk
on 20 May 2021 at 22:45

From the first months of the pandemic, the team of minus.eins, in co-operation with Schauspiel Dortmund and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, have been researching purely digital, web-based theatre experiences in the virtual realm. “Das HOUSE – ReInventing the Real” unites the episodes “Das HOUSE 0.1” and “Das HOUSE 0.2” and invites viewers to an exclusive guided tour through an unusual web format. We will begin in Dortmund’s city centre, in the vicinity of Theater Dortmund. For the past two years, there has been a shutdown and all public life has come to a standstill. But there seems to be something going on at the theatre. Live music, a kind of opening event, all kinds of weird characters – and then there is the rumour that someone has been building an exact replica of the cathedral of Notre Dame on stage for years. What is happening in this digital interim world? What is already real, what is still virtual?

Please note:
For interactive participation in “Das HOUSE”, we recommend that you use a desktop or laptop computer with a stable internet connection and the browser GoogleChrome. To avoid noise interference and feedback, please use a headset or headphones with a microphone. These technical requirements don’t apply if you would merely like to watch the stream of the performance.

Artistic Team

Roman Senkl – Director, idea, play development
Nils Corte – Creative coder, technical direction
Max Schweder – World building, sound programming, audio reactive visuals

Team “Das HOUSE 0.1”
Elisaweta Verprinskaja – Set design
TD Finck von Finckenstein – Music, noises
Friederike Wörner – Costume design
Gloria Schulz – Digital artist
Elisabeth Drache – 3D design
Matthias Seier – Dramaturgy
Péter Sanyó – Assistant director

With
Christian Freund, Frank Genser, Max Ranft, Uwe Schmieder, Anke Zillich

Team “Das HOUSE 0.2”
Nils Gallist, David Seul, Tobias Wüstefeld, Vincenz Neuhaus – 3D design
Harald Günter Kainer – Music
Armin Luschin – Web-programming

With
Lisa Schützenberger

“Das HOUSE 0.1” was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
For “Das HOUSE 0.2”, special thanks go to the team of Ars Electronica.Excerpt from "Cherubim" by Werner Fritsch with the kind permission of Suhrkamp Verlag.