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Woyzeck

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  • Theatre
  • Independent Production
  • 2007/2008
“"Woyzeck" by Boris Nikitin and Malte Scholz is of great theatrical directness and sensuality. Inspiring and exciting.”
— Basellandschaftliche Zeitung
“In a smart and atmospheric theatrical space, the students of Giessen show laconically that talking about (an in) theatre can become theatre.”
— Theater heute
“Nikitin has found a fresh access to a play that is mostly covered by its classicity.”
— Theater der Zeit
“The way Nikitin deals with Buchners classic is unusual and worth seeing.”
— nachtkritik

Events

    • 27 June 2013
      • Stadttheater Giessen, TiL
    • 8 September 2012
      • Festival "Grenzenlos kultur", Mainz
    • 24 March 2011
      • Landestheater Marburg
    • 17 December 2010
      • Landestheater Marburg
    • 10 December 2010
      • Landestheater Marburg
    • 20 November 2010
      • Landestheater Marburg
    • 5 November 2010
      • Landestheater Marburg
    • 6 May 2010
      • Symposium "who's there?", Kopenhagen
    • 30 April + 1 May 2010
      • Staatstheater Oldenburg
      • Festival "Pazz"
    • 16 April 2010
      • zeitraumexit, Mannheim
    • 3 December 2009
      • Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim a. Ruhr
      • Festival "Impulse"
    • 28 November 2009
      • Prinz Regent-Theater, Bochum
      • Festival "Impulse"
    • 26 November 2009
      • Alte Feuerwache, Köln
      • Festival "Impulse"
    • 5 November 2009
      • Kana Theater, Szczecin (Polen)
      • International theatre meetup "OKNO"
    • 22 May 2009
      • i-camp, München
    • 7 January 2009
      • Kaserne Basel
    • 6 + 7 December 2008
      • Rote Fabrik, Zürich
    • 30 October – 1 November 2008
      • Mousonturm
    • 24 September 2008
      • Festival "perfect performance", Kulturhuset, Stockholm
    • 4 June 2008
      • Festival UNITHEA, Frankfurt/Oder
    • 26 April 2008
      • INSTANTFESTIVAL, Hildesheim
    • 22 February 2008
      • Festival 100°, HAU - Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
    • 21 June 2007
      • Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft
      • World premiere

Artistic works → Woyzeck

A play as a performance art and at the same time as a total illusion that goes beyond the edges of the staging - right up to the audience discussion as a deceptive manoeuvre. After four years of collective experimentation, "Woyzeck" - which toured for six years - is Boris Nikitin's first own directorial and authorial work and also his first collaboration with the performer Malte Scholz and the sound artist Matthias Meppelink.
The play is not a new adaptation of Büchner's famous drama - it merely borrows the title and the question of culpability from it - but an attempt to create a new theatre language of his own.
Created while he was still a student in Giessen, the work already contains the essential elements of Nikitin's theatre: the essayistic, the black box as a stage set, the play with the real and the documentary infected by the possibility of falsification, the supposedly raw and sketchy that turns out to be a precise staging, the dreamlike question of identity and reality.

Of central importance for the play is the performance by Malte Scholz, who, as a tipping figure between himself and a possible Woyzeck and with a fearless acting and improvisation ability, not only lends the evening an idiosyncratic character, but also becomes the content himself.

In 2009 "Woyzeck" was invited as one of ten outstanding independent production of 2007/2008 to the festival "Impulse".
1st prize of the jury at the festival "100°", Berlin.
Invitation to the "Körber Studio Junge Regie", Thaila Theater, Hamburg

Conceived, directed and designed by
Boris Nikitin
Performer & texts
Malte Scholz
Technical director
Matthias Meppelink

Produced by
Boris Nikitin.

Created at
Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Giessen 2007.

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