Henrike Iglesias, Frank Häusermann, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Rabea Lüthi – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

HENRIKE IGLESIAS is a theater collective based in Berlin and Basel and has been working together since 2012. Henrike’s permanent crew includes Leo G. Alonso, Malu Peeters, Marielle Schavan and Sophia Schroth. Together and in smaller constellations, as well as with various collaborators they do performance theater, installations, parties and much more, if you ask. They understand pop cultural and mass media phenomena as a mirror of social conditions and grievances and have made it their aim to illuminate them from feminist perspectives. They like to use technology in narrative, interactive and poetic ways and to explore how it is influencing our daily lives together at this moment in time. @henrikeiglesiasinsta  

Olivia Hyunsin Kim - 올리비아 Hyunsin 金 works as an artist, tutor and curator in Berlin. She won first place in the Amadeu Antonio Art Prize in 2019. She completed her Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies Gießen and the HfMDK Frankfurt and her Bachelor’s degree in German Studies with a focus on Political Science at Seoul National University with distinction. In 2017 she was a danceWEB scholarship holder at Impulstanz, 2020–2023 scholarship holder at the Kulturakademie Tarabya and 2022 at the Goethe-Institut Montréal/Choreographisches Zentrum Circuit-Est and Goethe Institut Salvador-Bahia. Her works have been shown at Sophiensæle, Art Sonje Center Seoul, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Museo Universitario del Chopo Mexico City, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Rubanah Jakarta, zeitraumexit Mannheim, among others. Website Olivia Hyunsin Kim - 올리비아 Hyunsin (ddanddarakim.net)

Rabea Lüthi (They/Keine) was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1997. Through Junges Theater Basel, Rabea was able to participate in productions early on and work with people such as Yves Thuwis, Sebastian Nübling and the Henrike Iglesias collective. Since 2019, they have also been involved in film and radio plays, including the main cast of the Swiss film Sami, Joe und Ich by Karin Heberlein, the 2023 Toute la côte satire film CLASHING DIFFERENCES by Merle Grimme and various radio play/book productions by SRF. In 2024 Rabea completes their acting training at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg.

Theater HORA from Zurich is one of the best-known independent dance, theater and performance groups in Switzerland. The group regularly collaborates with important artists and collectives from Switzerland and abroad and performs at local, national and international venues on the theater scene. At the same time, Theater HORA is a (cultural) workshop for people with an IV-certified “mental disability” and as such has been part of the Züriwerk Foundation since 2003, which is committed to helping people with mainly cognitive impairments. With Jérôme Bel’s production DISABLED THEATER, Theater HORA was invited to the Theatertreffen Berlin in 2012 as one of the ten best productions. Promoting the self-determination of HORA actors as people and artists is at the heart of the HORA philosophy, because Theater HORA regards its actors as indispensable, unique and artistically equal collaborators. Theater HORA is convinced that only the promotion of the greatest possible autonomy can be the way to achieve artistically interesting results with the ensemble members. It is not the artistic “normalization” and adaptation of the ensemble members to the norms and conventions of the general theater business that is the path to their inclusion, but the perception, appreciation and promotion of their artistic and human uniqueness.

SPOKE is a nonbinary beatmaker and producer and for many years has been producing beats in the Berlin FLINTA rap scene and as a sound designer and in theater productions for Rimini Protokoll and Henrike Iglesias, among others. In their own recording studio in Berlin, SPOKE continuously advocates for empowerment and safer spaces for female* and queer artists in the music industry. In March 2023, SPOKE released their first own producer mixtape with several female* and queer MCs and took over the stages with their own beatmaker show. Featured are 4 talented live MCs – grime, trap, drill and bass are the defining genre elements. 

Nadine Bakota, born in 1989 to Yugoslavian parents in the Ruhr area, is a freelance costume designer in the field of theater and film. Her connection to the human body first led her to study medicine in Munich and then to Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Her costume design work has taken her to HAU, Sophiensæle, Ballhaus Ost and Uferstudios. She has worked continuously with directors Joana Tischkau, Nuray Demir and Sahar Rahimi (Monstertruck) at institutions such as Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt and Schauspielhaus Zürich. She has already worked with Henrike Iglesias on UNDER PRESSURE.