Stefan Kaegi

On absent performers, impersonating audiences and digital tools

A large illuminated aquarium in a dark room, featuring an octopus in the centre with its tentacles spread over rocks. On the left, a person peers from the side, placing a hand against the glass towards the octopus. - Philippe Weissbrodt
© Philippe Weissbrodt
A large, dense audience seated in a dark auditorium. Bright overhead lighting catches the tops of people's heads and shoulders, creating glowing, high-contrast outlines against their faces and bodies in the darkness. - Bernd Uhlig
© Bernd Uhlig
On a dark stage, a man in a black jumper sits cross-legged in an armchair with his arms raised, next to a laptop on a small table. On the left, a screen displays a close-up image of the back and mechanical head of a humanoid robot. - Gabriela Neeb
© Gabriela Neeb
  • 22.11 2026
  • Other Gatherings
  • Culturgest - Sala 2
  • Free upon registration
  • 11H
  • 2H30 min

Masterclass

How to stage script trees and wrap documentary experiences tightly around individual spectators? Welcome to the grey zone between reality and fiction, game and storytelling. Allow documentary material and theatrical interventions to seduce you into complex topics like climate change or european politics.

In this masterclass, for professionals and students in the performing arts, Stefan Kaegi will show and comment short videos on recent productions of the german theatre label Rimini Protokoll including remote controlled museum visitors in the roles of spies, 500 spectators dancing in front of a mirror as well as a performing octopus and a humanoid robot hanging from strings.


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Stefan Kaegi

Stefan Kaegi creates documentary theatre productions, radio plays, nomadic concepts, and projects in urban spaces in a wide variety of constellations, often placing animals—or even the audience itself—at the centre of the work. Together with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel, Kaegi works under the label Rimini Protokoll, which received, among other awards, the Silver Lion for Theatre at the Venice Biennale in 2011. In recent years, Rimini Protokoll has, for example, staged the tetralogy State 1–4 on the phenomena of post-democracy, a simulation of a World Climate...

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