Corinne Maier:
the end of the world as we know it
the end of the world as we know it
In The End Of The World As We Know It four performers hired as claqueurs for the anniversary of a historian get into an argument with each other. They bicker over the meaning and nonsense of their mission. In trying to give meaning to the meaninglessness of their existence, they discover the hopelessness of the situation: the criticism of what they have recognized as false contributes to the mystification of the criticized. When desperation is greatest, they discover the needs of existence as a common ground and prepare for themselves a merry feast.
BY AND WITH Katharina Bill, Anne Haug, Oriana Schrage, Lajos Talamonti DIRECTOR Corinne Maier DRAMATURGY Kris Merken DECOR Martina Ehleiter CHOREOGRAPHY Berit Jentzsch SOUND DESIGN Bernhard la Dous LIGHT DESIGN, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Thomas Kohler PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Elena Conradt, Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK Basel
A production by Plan C Performances in coproduction with Kaserne Basel, Münchner Kammerspielen, Theater Tuchlaube Aarau, Verein Burckhardt 1818-2018 and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Wilhelm and Ida Hertner-Strasser Stiftung and Migros-Kulturprozent. With friendly support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
CORINNE MAIER lives and works as a director and performer in Basel. She studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim until 2009. She worked as a dramaturg, is co-founder of the theater collective magic garden, and first appeared on stage herself in lecture performances. In 2012, she began directing and has since staged Past Is Present (2013) and Like A Prayer (2015), among others, with which she has toured to festivals in Europe and India. In 2017 she developed Children of Tomorrow together with the author Tina Müller for the Munich Volkstheater. In 2018 she created The end of the world as we know it, which was shown at the Festival Politik im freien Theater in Munich, among others, and in 2019 BUNKERN at the Luzerner Theater. Extensive expeditions and research are at the beginning of her often documentary theater works.