Strukturen und Menschen
Tagebuch einer Hospitantin 2.0
Guest performance as part of the opening of the SUMMER UP Festival
The director comes in and says loudly to the room: "I’ve already had two hours of meetings this morning! Very successful. Structures! Structures and people!" He hasn’t understood a thing.
Based on the performer’s own experiences as a trainee director, the lecture performance addresses the functioning of power and hierarchy in the theater from a radically personal perspective. With the help of diary entries and voice messages to her best friend, the performer recalls her time at the Berliner Ensemble. The level of the individual story points to something larger, to a system: Why do certain authoritarian practices and dynamics seem to be completely accepted in the institutionalized theater business? Why are questions of emancipation and pluralism negotiated on the stages of this country, while it often looks completely different in the production process?
With “Structures and People“ – Diary of an Intern 2.0, Hannah Helbig is once again presenting the piece with which she won the Audience Award at Körber Studio 2025 at the SUMMER UP Festival.
Based on the performer’s own experiences as a trainee director, the lecture performance addresses the functioning of power and hierarchy in the theater from a radically personal perspective. With the help of diary entries and voice messages to her best friend, the performer recalls her time at the Berliner Ensemble. The level of the individual story points to something larger, to a system: Why do certain authoritarian practices and dynamics seem to be completely accepted in the institutionalized theater business? Why are questions of emancipation and pluralism negotiated on the stages of this country, while it often looks completely different in the production process?
With “Structures and People“ – Diary of an Intern 2.0, Hannah Helbig is once again presenting the piece with which she won the Audience Award at Körber Studio 2025 at the SUMMER UP Festival.
Jun 2025