Difficult to understand, Impossible to interpret, Slowly sinking away in a boggy marsh."
ArthurX
Street theater: Berlin Lacht June 2011
Please put on your headphones; it's with a classical composition, thanks!
Street theater: Berlin Lacht
This time in Berlin we were quite lucky with the place. Ok, we're always happy with the place, where we stay. But this place was more special than the others
in good and really bad ways.
The good thing was, that we were in the Bethanien building in Kreuzberg, close to the Oranienstrasse. And we were at the Mariannenplatz, in a kind of park.
The street theater festival was going to start, so we were thinking: "Maybe we can put the paintings against one of those walls with grafitti." So we walked into the office of the festival, that was downstairs of our room. We had heard and seen them sitting on the veranda before, having breakfest at Saturday morning at seven.
So they looked at the website and were not too happy with the wall, because nobody would see it. I could better put them on the stage. Yes, sounded better to me too.
We spend the whole weekend at the festival. Putting up the paintings in the morning and taking them off at midnight. Seeing much more street theater as I have seen in my life before. Some acts three times. And learning the drive, they have and what kind of vision or attitude to life they convey. Making photographs, when they perform in front of the paintings, watching the audience, the children react, sitting in the grass.
At night some people performed at the grass. Torches, flares, dancing men and girls, shadows, small circles talking, drinking beer, a guitar, an improvised Aboriginal didgeridoo. It are reflections of dreams and glances of opportunities. They pass away in the summer night, like a ripple of wind passes over the leaves in the trees. Gently dancing to oblivion.
Berlin lacht Streettheater 2011
Mariannenplatz, Bethanien, Kreuzberg Berlin We rented a room in a squatted part of the building of an artist for one month, the squatted wing was a beautiful part of the former hospital with lindetrees in front of the window, it was june, the air was full with the smell of the Linde-blossoms.
Mr Fish at the street theater in Berlin
Several paintings made in Bethanien, c, portrait of a Finnish girl, we met at 48 Stunden Neukoln.
Bethanien, Girl reading a book in park Bethanien.
Xiamen
Fire show at street-theater-festival.
Girl with trombone at the festival
Girl of Bethanien
Girl reading a book in Bethanien park.
Woman with child in U-Bahn.
Berlin lacht, clowns act.
Berlin Grimm-Museum 2011
Live painting at the Grimm-Museum, September 2011
Sketch of the girl, Serving wine the friendly way.
Clara, our neighboor in the "Wohngemeinschaft" Braunschweigerstrasse, Neukoln, September 2011 Berlin
Left under, brunch for the community with dumpster diving food.
Clara, our neighboor in the "Wohngemeinschaft" Braunschweigerstrasse, Neukoln, September 2011 Berlin
Felicia, artist from the Grimm-museum, September 2011 Berlin.
Siriusplatz, Neukoln, Berlin, 14 days. May 2012.
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Girl from the sketch-meeting.
Girl from Sketch meeting.
Man from Berlin Berlinale.
Girl from "IDA NOWHERE" Neukoln.
Girl from "IDA NOWHERE" Neukoln.
Girl from "Berlin Berlinale".
Girl from "Berlin Trainstation SudKruez"
Mario Margani
Berlin Face
Rigaerstrasse , Friedrichshain, Berlin December 2012, 20 days.
Former squatted building, now owned by the community-group, living in the building, we rented a room for 3 weeks from an australian artist.
Oderbergerstrasse, PrenzlauerBerg, Berlin September 2010, 14 days.
Girls on the bike, Corner, Eberswalderstrasse, Berlin. She was reading a book, despite all the traffic.
We had rented a room in an apparment for one month in the Oderbergerstrasse, a very lively street, in the end the Mauerpark.