Theater Traumbaum im KulturMagazin

In the location's words:

Our approach as a theater:
For us, theater always means a promise kept and something more beyond that. Let's be honest with each other for a moment: a hundred children or young people in a room, watching and listening to two people on stage for a performance, taking a step back and getting involved in what's happening up front, empathizing, getting excited - why are they doing this, why are they willing to do it? Not because it's the right thing to do or because they are so culturally aware. It's because they simply want to be entertained. And we do our utmost to fulfill this promise of providing entertainment, of gripping our audience and taking them along with us in every performance.

Theater is entertainment! But only fifty percent of it! The other fifty percent consists of stories, feelings and images of people as they are and of visions of how people could be, what opportunities they actually have and which ones they don't make use of. And it is precisely this mixture that is our approach as a theater!

Our plays
On this homepage, under Repertoire, we offer you fifteen plays as guest performances, for school performances and in performances at KiJuKuMa, and no two plays are the same! For us, theater is and remains a voyage of discovery to the islands of fantasy, an expedition into the jungle of human emotions and destinies, a kaleidoscope of human possibilities. With every new play we produce, we embark on a new quest, we allow ourselves and, of course, our audience to be surprised. We make use of all the styles and forms of realization that theater has to offer as a rich medium:
Acting, object theater, mask theater, physical theater, puppet theater, as a consistently narrated plot, as a complex network of plots on various levels, as a collage and as a scenery sheet.

Since 1997, our plays have almost always been themed, although the theme is neither boldly nor pedagogically placed in the foreground, but is always integrated into the plot. It is up to each audience member to be inspired by the play to engage in a discussion, to ask themselves questions, or to enjoy the play as pure theatrical entertainment.

Of course, we would be delighted if we could make the world a little bit better with our plays, but we are not do-gooders! We like to take our audience on a quest in our plays without telling them what they should find. Our theater pedagogical workshops through our profession as actors and theater makers put us in the fortunate position of being able to be someone other than ourselves:

• to be someone other than who we actually are
• to slip into other roles and look at the world from other eyes or through the eyes of others
• to create spaces, situations and worlds that do not exist
• If necessary, we can even die without being dead afterwards

In the game, we can create the world as we wish or imagine it to be. However, this doesn't just work at the touch of a button; it requires technical skills, methodical knowledge and expertise in body language and expression. Lots of little tricks and tips on how to realize your fantasy so that it becomes an apparent reality for yourself and others. We make all this available to participants, children, young people and adults in our workshops:

• the Free Workshops to expand their own creativity.
• In our preventive theater pedagogical school workshops for conflict avoidance and coping.

You can discuss problems and then understand them with your head. However, this does not necessarily mean that the body does what the head has understood. You can play through problems and then there is a chance that your head and body will understand something. And it's fun as well.