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Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch. 革命：幽灵的箭矢
Date details
- Date Friday, 17/January/2025 19:00 bis 20:50 (2 more dates)
- Venue Humboldt Forum
- Address Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
Public transportation
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Train (S-Bahn)
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S Hackescher Markt
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Hackescher Markt
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Underground
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U Museumsinsel
- U5
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U Rotes Rathaus
- U5
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U Hausvogteiplatz
- U2
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U Spittelmarkt
- U2
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U Klosterstr.
- U2
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U Märkisches Museum
- U2
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U Museumsinsel
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Bus
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Berliner Schloss
- 147
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U Museumsinsel
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Neumannsgasse
- 147
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U Rotes Rathaus
- 200
- N2
- N8
- N40
- N42
- N60
- N65
- 300
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Werderscher Markt
- 147
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
- N42
- 100
- 200
- N2
- N5
- N8
- N40
- N60
- N65
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Nikolaiviertel
- 147
- 200
- 248
- N2
- N42
- N8
- N40
- N60
- N65
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Fischerinsel
- 200
- 248
- N2
- N42
- 147
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Staatsoper
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Jüdenstr.
- 248
- 300
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S Hackescher Markt
- N42
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U Spittelmarkt
- 200
- N2
- 248
- N42
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Memhardstr.
- N2
- N40
- 100
- 200
- N5
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U Unter den Linden
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Berliner Schloss
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Tram
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
- 50
- M4
- M5
- M6
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Am Kupfergraben
- 12
- M1
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S Hackescher Markt
- M4
- M5
- M6
- 50
- M1
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Georgenstr./Am Kupfergraben
- 12
- M1
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Universitätsstr.
- 12
- M1
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Monbijouplatz
- M1
- M5
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Gontardstr.
- M4
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- M6
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
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Train
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
Part of:
Revolution. The Foe Of An Arrow Wound. 革命：幽灵的箭矢
Key Visual Paper Tiger – Key Visual Paper Tiger
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Foto: David von Becker
![Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio]()
Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss/ Foto: Frank Sperling
![Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio]()
Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss/ Foto: Frank Sperling
![Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio]()
Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio – Generalprobe der Theaterproduktion "Revolution. Stachel im Fleisch" des Kollektivs Paper Tiger Theater Studio Theater Studio
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss/ Foto: Frank Sperling
A Chinese scroll painting like a scene from an action movie: a horseman shoots a warrior galloping in front of him with bow and arrow. The Chinese-German Paper Tiger Theater has been inspired by the scroll painting in the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. In their dance-video-installation-performance the artists span an arc from the Chinese imperial wars and their celebration in the imperial palace to the colonial plundering of Beijing in the so-called Boxer War in 1900 to the China of today. Three dancers meet a contemporary witness of Honecker's China trip, a skateboarder meets a drummer, video art meets costumes for all.
We see the deadly moment of an act of war: hit by an arrow and painfully bent, a Dzungarian horseman flees at full gallop. Behind him, also on horseback, a Manchurian officer of the imperial army, Machang, bow in hand, is about to send another arrow after the fleeing man. The scroll "Machang Breaking Through the Enemy Ranks" was painted in Beijing in 1759 and is part of a large-scale propaganda program commissioned by Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795) from his court painter Lang Shinin alias Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) after the conclusion of the victorious campaign against the Dzungars (today Xinjiang). It was intended to glorify his expansionist policies in the northwest and south of the empire. The Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione had lived in Beijing since 1714. Although he was unable to pursue his missionary activities there as originally planned, he became a court painter who was highly esteemed by the emperor. In 1914, the painting arrived in Berlin via the international art trade, probably as a result of looting during the "Boxer Wars" in 1900. It is now part of the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum. Its provenance, along with other works from the Imperial Palace in German museums, is currently being researched.
Combining the realist tradition in European painting with Chinese aesthetics, Castiglione created an early form of transcultural exchange, staged, as it were, in the situation of pursuer and fugitive. This concrete scene as well as the complex history of the painting form the starting point for a performative-installative research in the historical and contemporary contexts of colonization and revolution. In doing so, Paper Tiger understands the painting as a probe for exploring the present. As an object that has traversed times and spaces, at the interface between artist and emperor, between human and animal, between imperial power and impotent resistance, it asks us fundamental questions.
Idea and direction: Tian Gebing
World premiere: 21.4.2023, 19 Uhr, Halll 2
Production: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Paper Tiger Theater Studio, Beijing / Berlin
Paper Tiger Theater Studio
The "Paper Tiger Theater Studio" (Beijing/Berlin) is an independent theater collective founded by Tian Gebing in Beijing in 1998 and has been based in Berlin for the past three years. Artists with different professional backgrounds from the fields of dance, theater and visual arts gather to develop theater projects in the transdisciplinary area of theater, performance and dance. The central starting point of the theater work is the immediate reality, not only of contemporary Chinese society. Everyday reality in its brutal absurdity is used as material and structure for the performances, transposed into other contexts, translated, misunderstood, expanded with literary fictions, and transformed in such a way that an exchange process between social and performative spaces is set in motion.
From 2010 to 2015, Paper Tiger had its own theater spaces in Beijing, where artists from other disciplines could also work, thus forming a shared artistic network that decisively shaped the theater landscape in Beijing. The company's productions have been seen in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Antwerp, Krakow, Zurich, Amsterdam and many other places in China. In Germany, Paper Tiger has been visible with several projects, including in 2007 at the HAU in Berlin, in 2014 with "Totally happy" at the Munich Kammerspiele and in 2017 with "500 meters. Kafka, Great Wall or Images from the Unreal World and Daily Heroism" at Hamburg's Thalia Theater as part of the Theater der Welt festival. In 2021, the second part of a Kafka trilogy entitled "Heart Chamber Fragments" was coproduced with the Münchner Kammerspiele. Most recently, in 2022/23 Paper Tiger realized "Her Face. Theatre about diasporic poetry, disappearance and hauntological reoccurrence" a nomadic project in eight private apartments in Berlin.
CAST & CREW
Performance:
Raul Aranha
Simon Chatelain
Oksana Chupryniuk
Hu Shengnan (percussion)
Ariel Nil Levy
Hans-Jürgen Schreiber
Suzuki Mieko (DJ)
Wang Yanan
Director Tian Gebing
Choreography Wang Yanan
Stage Eva Veronica Born
Dramaturgy Christoph Lepschy
Curator Chen Shuyu
Music Suzuki Mieko
Costume concept Chen Shuyu, Tian Gebing
Video design Andreas König, Julia Kuhnert, Daniela Prochaska
Assistant director Li Jingwen
Assistant stage designer Lioba Bangert
Costume assistance Lam Ophelia, Aline Suter
Choreography assistance Xie Yuchen
Translation Li Binyao
Artistic assistance Liu Chao
Video recordings Tong Xin, Jiang Dingding
Further Information
- Language: English, German, with surtitles, Madarin
- 16,00 EUR / reduced 8,00 EUR. Please book your ticket online or in the Foyer.
- Venue: Hall 2
- from 12 years
We see the deadly moment of an act of war: hit by an arrow and painfully bent, a Dzungarian horseman flees at full gallop. Behind him, also on horseback, a Manchurian officer of the imperial army, Machang, bow in hand, is about to send another arrow after the fleeing man. The scroll "Machang Breaking Through the Enemy Ranks" was painted in Beijing in 1759 and is part of a large-scale propaganda program commissioned by Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795) from his court painter Lang Shinin alias Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) after the conclusion of the victorious campaign against the Dzungars (today Xinjiang). It was intended to glorify his expansionist policies in the northwest and south of the empire. The Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione had lived in Beijing since 1714. Although he was unable to pursue his missionary activities there as originally planned, he became a court painter who was highly esteemed by the emperor. In 1914, the painting arrived in Berlin via the international art trade, probably as a result of looting during the "Boxer Wars" in 1900. It is now part of the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum. Its provenance, along with other works from the Imperial Palace in German museums, is currently being researched.
Combining the realist tradition in European painting with Chinese aesthetics, Castiglione created an early form of transcultural exchange, staged, as it were, in the situation of pursuer and fugitive. This concrete scene as well as the complex history of the painting form the starting point for a performative-installative research in the historical and contemporary contexts of colonization and revolution. In doing so, Paper Tiger understands the painting as a probe for exploring the present. As an object that has traversed times and spaces, at the interface between artist and emperor, between human and animal, between imperial power and impotent resistance, it asks us fundamental questions.
Idea and direction: Tian Gebing
World premiere: 21.4.2023, 19 Uhr, Halll 2
Production: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Paper Tiger Theater Studio, Beijing / Berlin
Paper Tiger Theater Studio
The "Paper Tiger Theater Studio" (Beijing/Berlin) is an independent theater collective founded by Tian Gebing in Beijing in 1998 and has been based in Berlin for the past three years. Artists with different professional backgrounds from the fields of dance, theater and visual arts gather to develop theater projects in the transdisciplinary area of theater, performance and dance. The central starting point of the theater work is the immediate reality, not only of contemporary Chinese society. Everyday reality in its brutal absurdity is used as material and structure for the performances, transposed into other contexts, translated, misunderstood, expanded with literary fictions, and transformed in such a way that an exchange process between social and performative spaces is set in motion.
From 2010 to 2015, Paper Tiger had its own theater spaces in Beijing, where artists from other disciplines could also work, thus forming a shared artistic network that decisively shaped the theater landscape in Beijing. The company's productions have been seen in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Antwerp, Krakow, Zurich, Amsterdam and many other places in China. In Germany, Paper Tiger has been visible with several projects, including in 2007 at the HAU in Berlin, in 2014 with "Totally happy" at the Munich Kammerspiele and in 2017 with "500 meters. Kafka, Great Wall or Images from the Unreal World and Daily Heroism" at Hamburg's Thalia Theater as part of the Theater der Welt festival. In 2021, the second part of a Kafka trilogy entitled "Heart Chamber Fragments" was coproduced with the Münchner Kammerspiele. Most recently, in 2022/23 Paper Tiger realized "Her Face. Theatre about diasporic poetry, disappearance and hauntological reoccurrence" a nomadic project in eight private apartments in Berlin.
CAST & CREW
Performance:
Raul Aranha
Simon Chatelain
Oksana Chupryniuk
Hu Shengnan (percussion)
Ariel Nil Levy
Hans-Jürgen Schreiber
Suzuki Mieko (DJ)
Wang Yanan
Director Tian Gebing
Choreography Wang Yanan
Stage Eva Veronica Born
Dramaturgy Christoph Lepschy
Curator Chen Shuyu
Music Suzuki Mieko
Costume concept Chen Shuyu, Tian Gebing
Video design Andreas König, Julia Kuhnert, Daniela Prochaska
Assistant director Li Jingwen
Assistant stage designer Lioba Bangert
Costume assistance Lam Ophelia, Aline Suter
Choreography assistance Xie Yuchen
Translation Li Binyao
Artistic assistance Liu Chao
Video recordings Tong Xin, Jiang Dingding
Further Information
- Language: English, German, with surtitles, Madarin
- 16,00 EUR / reduced 8,00 EUR. Please book your ticket online or in the Foyer.
- Venue: Hall 2
- from 12 years
Meeting point: Ground Floor, Hall 2
Price info: 20 EUR, reduced 10 EUR, 16 EUR for Tanzcard holders
Price: €20.00
Reduced price: €10.00
Price info: 20 EUR, reduced 10 EUR, 16 EUR for Tanzcard holders
Price: €20.00
Reduced price: €10.00
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