Educational trips
A traveling discourse program
In former times, the sons, and sometimes the daughters of the nobility and the upper classes went on grand journeys. To cap off their education, they spent months or even years on a journey, they got to know other countries, other customs, and they came back more mature in character. This noble gesture might be lost – but extended backpack trips during semester breaks and cultural tourism are a reverberation of this tradition. But while discount airlines jet all over the world, the immediate surroundings often remain uncharted territory.
Impulse Theater Biennale 2013 is throwing itself into the fray, trying to fill the gap by connecting its performance cities on the Rhine and the Ruhr with its own educational journeys. Each of the four locations has a special day in the festival program – reachable by bus and combi-ticket.
Not only does this give you a condensed overview of what notable independent theater works have emerged in the last two years in the German-speaking world. But each bus also has its own tour guide: lectures, analyses, performative talks – about the role of migration
in NRW, about the question of German thought, about xenophobia, and also about the way that pop music contributes to the formation of identity.
Anyone who wants to hear has to travel – this time the festival’s theory program is taking place on the street.
28. June
From Bochum to Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
Departure: 5:30 PM
Schauspielhaus
with Dorothee Wenner (curator / documentary filmmaker)
to Theater HORA / Jerome Bel and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)
From Düsseldorf to Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
Departure: 5:30 PM
Salon des Amateurs
with Branko Šimić (director) and Eva Maria Stüting (scientist in theatre studies / dramaturge)
to Theater HORA / Jérôme Bel and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)
29. June
From Bochum to Cologne
Departure: 6:00 PM
Schauspielhaus
with Phil Collins (visual artist)
to andcompany&Co., Christian Garcia (and Chez Icke)
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and incl. Chez Icke 1:15 AM)
From Düsseldorf to Cologne
Departure: 4:30 PM
Salon des Amateurs
with Barbara Vinken (professor for literary studies)
to Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt / Matthias Meppelink, andcompany& Co. and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)
05. July
From Cologne to Düsseldorf
Departure: 6:00 PM
studiobühneköln
with the Chez Icke Team
to Theater im Bahnhof, Tamer Yiğit / Branka Prlić (and Chez Icke)
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and incl. Chez Icke 1:00 AM)
06. July
From Cologne to Bochum
Departure: 6:00 PM
studiobühneköln
with Oliver Marchart (philosopher / politics- and art-theorist)
to She She Pop, Damian Rebgetz and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM und 1:15 AM)
From Mülheim a.d. Ruhr to Bochum
Departure: 4:00 PM
Ringlokschuppen
with Adrienne Goehler (curator and journalist / co-author of 1000€ für Jeden)
to Bernadette La Hengst, She She Pop and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM und 1:00 AM)
