| 15th International
Schillertage
Friday, 26th of June 2009
7 - 11 p.m.
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Schauspielhaus
Mozartstraße 9
68161 Mannheim
Non-stop Check-in from 6 p.m.
Free entry!

Licensee and Production:
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Licenser:
Mobile Academy
Head of Project:
Anja Lindner (License Comissioner Mobile Academy)
Head of Research:
Mikael GB Horstmann (herr mika UG)
Project Assistant:
Nina Bernges
Dramaturge/Interviews:
Jan-Philipp Possmann
Technical Directors:
Holger Beckschebe, Luise Weidner
Stage:
Evi Scheller
Stage Assistant:
Karina Dapra
Costume Assistant:
Janine Werthmann
Make-up:
Marlies Eichhorn-Denman, Elke Langer
Interns:
Mirjam Caliskan, Simone Jöst
Contracts/Fees:
Dorina Gilbert, Sabine Lüpcke
Hosts and Hostesses:
At the check-in:
Kornelije Grabovac, Henriette Huppmann, Kira Kirsch, Charlotte Schubert
Announcements:
Ninon Hirth
Information & Consulting:
Philipp Hochleichter
At the installation:
Mirjam Caliskan, Sascha Flocken, Frauke Luther, Laura & Leslie Schanz,
Oriana Uhl
Expert Get-Together:
Simone Jöst
Headphones:
Sasa Cvitkovic, Nina Gundlach, Melanie Borg, Nicole Schöfer
Secondhand-Knowledge-Dealers: Mascha Funke, Kathrina
Grgic, Markus Rutz, Phil Stephan, Melanie Weil
Media:
Film Documentation:
Norbert Kaiser/artmetropol.tv
Photo Documentation:
Christian Kleiner
English Translation:
Neil Hennessy

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BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND
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"Games People Play: On the Attraction
of Rules and the Instance of their Infringement"
An installation with over 100 experts
Licensee and Production:
Nationaltheater Mannheim / 15th International Schillertage

The 15th International Schillertage has chosen Schiller's
definition of play as its theme. According to Schiller, "man only
plays where he is man in the full acceptation of the term, and he
is wholly man only where he plays." Playing seems to be a crucial
element of being human. Humans play themselves into the world and
they playfully acquire what exists there. Through playing, humanity
has the chance to create a different, better world. We, the players,
experience our freedom and our boundaries as well as the necessity
of these boundaries. Without rules—which we create and set up ourselves—there
is no playing. Play is the possible impossibility to merge amusement
with seriousness, utopia with reality, and liberty with equality.
Nevertheless, there is a great temptation to drop out of the play:
we manipulate games, we break, ignore and dictate rules. As frauds
or criminals, we demote our teammates to pawns. For reasons of creative
despondency, for fear of the unexpected and loss of control, in
order to make the world more calculable, we twist games into routine
or ritual. Or, quite the contrary, we stop playing and leave our
creative potentialities up to chance. In order to shirk responsibility,
we seek salvation as gamblers and addicts.
 
all Photos: Christian Kleiner
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