Helgard Haug
Biography
Helgard Haug is an author and director who co-founded the theatre label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 with Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel. Rimini Protokoll often develop their plays, interventions, staged installations and radio plays with experts with knowledge and skills tested outside of the theatre. They also like to translate spaces or social orders into theatrical formats. Many of their works are marked by interactivity and a playful approach to technology.
Helgard Haug and Rimini Protokoll have received numerous awards for their work. For example, they were recognised with the German theatre prize Der Faust and the European Theatre Prize, and in 2011 Rimini Protokoll's complete works were awarded the Silver Lion at the 41st Biennale Teatro in Venice. Four of their productions have been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen, most recently “Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas”. In 2007, they were awarded the Mülheimer Prize in 2007 along with Daniel Wetzel for “Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Erster Band”, triggering a far-reaching debate about new authorships and post-dramatic theatre.
Helgard Haug has also received several awards for her radio plays, including the Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD and the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden.