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Geschichtentheater. Vom Traum zum echten Abenteuer - Die große Reise des Alexander von Humboldt – Geschichtentheater

Not far from Berlin, near a river, a large mountain rises into the sky. It has stood there unchanged for thousands of years. Until one day craftsmen come and knock a large piece of rock out of the mountain and take it with them. And so it begins, the story of a stone.

We can still see them today, the stone figures in and around the Humboldt Forum. Be it the great ancient hero Hercules or the Roman god Jupiter. Many stories are connected with all these figures. But what does the stone they are made of tell? What adventures has it experienced?

In this programme, the two artists Nicola Knappe and Maria Carmela Marinelli combine the history of the stone figures with mythological tales from antiquity to create a humorous and imaginative work of art in Italian and German.

Maria Carmela Marinelli is a storyteller, theatre pedagogue (M.A.) and DaF/DaZ teacher (M.A.), trained at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is active in storytelling projects in Berlin and Saxony, performs at international storytelling festivals and leads advanced training courses on tandem storytelling, multilingual storytelling and storytelling in foreign language teaching at the University of Leipzig, Halle and Jena. She tells stories with great vitality, suggestively, full of humour, with an exuberant temperament, in German, Italian, Spanish - and when language is no longer enough, with hands, feet and a big heart, until the air burns.

Nicola Knappe grew up with music and movement. She studied rhythm/music and movement at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Already during her studies, her artistic interest lay in the creative implementation of language. This was followed by further training in theatre and dance pedagogy, including at the Tanzfabrik Berlin and the Exploratorium. Since 2007 Nicola Knappe has been teaching rhythmics in family centres, daycare centres and music schools. In 2016-2018 she successfully participated as a scholarship holder in the advanced training Storytelling in art and education at the UdK. She designs and implements storytelling projects with welcome classes and can be seen artistically as a storyteller at events, in theatres, at festivals and markets. Nicola Knappe is a lecturer for storytelling (VHS Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg) and movement (UdK) and an active member of Erzählkunst e.V. She lives with her three children in Berlin-Karlshorst.

Further information:

- 3,00 EUR / 1,50 EUR reduced

- german/Italian

- Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer.

- The entrance to Hall 3 is in the Schlüterhof next to the Sculpture Hall.

- Duration: 30 min

Price: €3.00

Reduced price: €1.50

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 10/August/2024 11:00 bis 11:30 (2 more dates)
• Venue Humboldt Forum
• Address Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte