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What is the Schaudepot?: A library of performances – to browse, borrow or experience live
The Game by Viviana González Méndez
The Game by Viviana González Méndez: This game comes from learning about how traditions, coming from rural and suburban context of popular Andean world, understand and create relationships with their surroundings. Distilled from these traditions is, especially, the idea that space is understood as a community of beings that are interwoven and in constant dialogue with each other. By this logic, there is no hierarchical difference between the human and other beings. But if we accept that places can be beings, then we should also include them as part of this community. And what surrounds us are not simply objects but living entities with which we could establish relations of reciprocity.
The Schaudepot – A…or…NO…farewell tour
The Schaudepot – A…or…NO…farewell tour: Together with guests, Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt walk from the Theater Rampe to the Schaudepot. This is the place that – by the way – has also become an archive of the collaboration between Herbordt/Mohren and Theater Rampe over the past ten years.
‘Stadtraum-Theater in der alten Fliesenlegerwerkstatt.’ by Elisabeth Maier, Theater der Zeit, 4/2023. Since 2021, Herbordt and Mohren, the two pioneers of the performing arts, have been operating their Schaudepot in the former workshop of an Altenbergweg tiler, in the midst of many rental apartments down in Stuttgart Kessel. Regarding the concept, Herbordt remarks:⁠ “Our basic idea is to bring theatre into the residential area.” During lunch break or after work, people stop by and watch videos of the productions that the Herbordt/Mohren collective has been creating since 2012. For their socio-political performative projects, the two were awarded the "Der Faust" German Theatre Prize in the genre-busting category in 2022. This “great encouragement” has only emboldened them to do more. The ‘Blinding Virtual Reality?’ lab. On the potential of virtual reality for blind and visually impaired persons by and with Steven Solbrig, Matthias Nagel and guests / 18.3.2023, 4:00-5:30 pm.
The ‘Blinding Virtual Reality?’ lab. On the potential of virtual reality for blind and visually impaired persons by and with Steven Solbrig, Matthias Nagel and guests / 18.3.2023, 4:00-5:30 pm.: Together, in this idea lab, we explore the potential of performative formats of virtual reality for blind and visually impaired people, and look for a plot, for initial impulses for a digital storytelling and performing. 
Kodak von Jorge Alencar and Neto Machado
Kodak von Jorge Alencar and Neto Machado: ,Kodak‘ is a performance for kids in which 100 colorful archive boxes build a world of giant legos or a Mindcraft universe, in continuous construction. They turn into buildings, labyrinths, theater sets and whatever else is needed. From within them, more and more surprises emerge that multiply the possibilities of thought, perception and movement.
‘Theater aus dem Schaudepot. Performance-Perlen archiviert’ by Dietrich Heissenbüttel, CONTEXT Wochenzeitung 614 of 4.1.2023 (in German). “The Schaudepot for the Performing Arts is a unique place where the audience can explore theatre in a very special way. Bernhard Herbordt and Melanie Mohren have archived their pieces there. And they are available for a guided tour or a program at any time. (Dietrich Heissenbüttel, CONTEXT Wochenzeitung 614 of 4.1.23 (in German)). German Theatre Prize ‘Der Faust’
German Theatre Prize ‘Der Faust’: We’re delighted to have been awarded the German Theater Award ‘Der Faust’ in the category ‘Genrespringer’ (genre jumpers) for ‘Das Schaudepot’!
The Schaudepot – Special IV – The Society a.o., 8.10.2022, 2–8 p.m.
The Schaudepot – Special IV – The Society a.o., 8.10.2022, 2–8 p.m.: The Schaudepot - Special presents, among many other things, ‚Die Gesellschaft’ (The Society) as a new performance with live audio description in the Schaudepot in the afternoon and looks forward to a lecture by Azadeh Sharifi in the early evening. 2-8pm. For adults and children!
Reading in the Void - Marginalized Artists in Germany - Zoom Lecture by Azadeh Sharifi, 8.10.2022, 6 p.m. (broadcast live at Schaudepot)
Reading in the Void - Marginalized Artists in Germany - Zoom Lecture by Azadeh Sharifi, 8.10.2022, 6 p.m. (broadcast live at Schaudepot): Which artists and artistic productions have been and are being collected and archived in Germany? Whose art and cultural production is racialized, ethnicized and marginalized? And how can this void be dealt with?
The Schaudepot - lunch break The Schaudepot always opens on Tuesdays for a quick performance during the lunch break. The offer also includes tactile guided tours, performances with audio description or in German sign language. Individual appointment from 12: 00 to 14: 00 at info@die-institution.org. The Society (Die Gesellschaft) von Herbordt/Mohren
The Society (Die Gesellschaft) von Herbordt/Mohren:
The Festival – Online-Performance with Judica Albrecht and Armin Wieser
The Festival – Online-Performance with Judica Albrecht and Armin Wieser: ‘The Festival’ is based on a collection of impossible programme contributions: In the online performance, you will encounter Judica Albrecht and Armin Wieser as they speak out against the impossibilities of these programme contributions, against forgetting and being forgotten. The two report from remote regions, taste pieces of new music together and with you. Via Zoom and yet in the same room of the Schaudepot. The boundaries between the past and the present, live events and recording, document and fiction are blurred in an almost twisted game of deception.
The Black Circle by Emilija Tolj and Cennet Uyar The black circle symbolizes the characteristics and abilities of people with experiences of discrimination that are stripped out and cut out by the white majority society. The Festival by Herbordt/Mohren
NORM IS F!KTION #1/2 by NAF
NORM IS F!KTION #1/2 by NAF: Personal, human needs stand in contrast to the (luxury department store) world, its bourgeois values and codes and the exhaustive imperative: Always keep moving! Space is a resource. Shopping is one option among many.
Architectural Description in text and Image. Room by room, from big to small. The Theatre by Herbordt/Mohren
The Theatre by Herbordt/Mohren: What if a whole village were staged as a performance? From October 2015 to October 2018, Herbordt/Mohren invited people to performative country parties in Michelbach an der Lücke every second Sunday.
The Assembly by and by Herbordt/Mohren and guests
The Assembly by and by Herbordt/Mohren and guests:
Opening, 4 July 2021
Opening, 4 July 2021: For the first time, the Schaudepot can be visited on site and in person. With guided tours, discussions, performances and culinary offers.