About us
TheaterLaboratorium Gelnhausen was founded on May, 28th 2013 by Julian Viel, Alexander Spaeth, Melanie Uhlmann and Lars Alfers. Swantje Schmidt, Tobias Amberg and Jeanette Langner soon joined the group, too.
We meet every week for rehearsals at the Youth- and Arts Center Gelnhausen (so called JuKuZ) which offers the advantage of an existing stage with lightning and sound engineering.
After our first review we decided not to re-enact a ready-made play. Instead we wanted to create something more special: For our first performance named "Subject: Human" round about half a year
later, we chose not to elect a director as everyone should be allowed to equally come up with ideas, reviews, suggestions and be able to write own plays. We are still holding on to this
principle.
Several themes were compiled, analyzed and finally we wrote five short plays at home, starting staging afterwards:
• „Mnemosyne“ by Lars Alfers
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„Amor plays Roulette“ by Melanie Uhlmann
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„Under Pressure“ by Swantje Schmidt
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„Revolution at Night“ by Alexander Spaeth
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“Between the Worlds“ by Julian Viel.
Felix Kaiser and Benjamin Prinz were in charge of illuminating and acoustic engineering.
On December, 7th and 8th 2013 we successfully performed "Subject: Human" twice in front of approx. 100 viewers (total
of attendances).
Due to job- and study-related reasons Swantje Schmidt, Felix Kaiser, Tobias Amberg and Benjamin Prinz left us after these performances.
Henceforth we gained Patric Boulahrout, Johannes Tasch, Sabrina Schaefer, Julia Reis as well as Alexander Schindler and Lea Bergkemper.
Due to job-related reasons, Jeanette Langner is currently supporting the group in the background.
From February 2014 we were working on „Project: Frenzy“.
The Association of Arts "Pupille e.V. Hanau" (http://www.pupille-art.de/) was exposing self-made pictures starting
from May, 18th for two weeks at the foyer of Hanau´s cityhall "Neustädter Rathaus".
On June, 1st 2014 we performed self-written and -stage-managed sequences dealing with different kinds of positive and negative frenzies:
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"Buying Spree" written by Julia Reis,
•"Love Frenzy" by Melanie Uhlmann and Alexander Spaeth,
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"Color Frenzy" by Alexander Spaeth,
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"Intoxication Bar" by Patric Boulahrout and Alexander Spaeth.
This time Lars Alfers and Johannes Tasch were in charge of all engineering affairs.
We recently gained Christopher Battenhausen and Cory Elbrechter.
Meanwhile we created this website as well as the following YouTube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/theaterlaboranten.
On August, 23rd 2014 we arranged a Summer Fête at JuKuZ Gelnhausen during which we offered join in-acts for all ages, beverages, barbecue, (fire-)juggling (Franz Grob (head of Moving Artists
Gelnhausen)), breakdanceworkshop (Ruben Grahs), fire-show and -breather (Jeanette Langner, Tobias Zang and Johannes Tasch), presentations, crowdfundingvideo, exposed pictures from our team,
videotaping of our latest perfomance in Hanau and a nightly bash with DJ Julian.
On October, 23rd 2014 we performed our self-staged and -written
latest performance "PROJECT FRENZY" once more at Lorbass Gelnhausen in front of more than 100
viewers. After the play we presented the bands "Achtband" and "Red Socked Peppers".
On October, 24th 2014 we successfully performed "Project Frenzy" for the last time for now at the Youth-&Culture-Center in Gelnhausen in front of
approx. 50 viewers.
Due to job- and study-related reasons Sabrina Schaefer left us after these performances.
Henceforth we gained Julia Schmidt, Jannis Zeiger, Paulina Rack and Philip Lauber.
On March, 7th 2015 the meeting for the official registration of the
society took place.
Alexander Spaeth (Chairman), Julia Reis (Vicechair), Julia Schmidt (Treasurer) and Johannes Tasch (Secretary) are representing the executive comittee. Since March, 23rd 20015 we are an official
public society and authorized to use the addendum "e.V." (registered society).
On April, 9th 2015 we performed a play reading of three stories from Edgar Allan Poe in front of approx. 107 viewers at Lorbass Gelnhausen:
• "Die Maske des Roten Todes"
• "Der Mann in der Menge"
• "Das Verräterische Herz".
The play reading was replayed in front of approx. 90 viewers all in all on June 27th 2015 "Lorbass" Gelnhausen with "Orcus Patera" from Mainz and "Red Socked Peppers" from Gelnhausen (bands) and on June, 28th at JugendKulturzentrum Gelnhausen.
We gained Nehemiah Jungmann, Leana Bülow and Bardo Laber since autumn 2015.
Alexander Spaeth adapted and renewed "Faust" (by Goethe) and named it "Schach:
MATT". Premiere took place at the stage of Gelnhausen´s city hall on November, 13th 2015 and was replayed on November 22nd 2015 in front of approx. 500 viewers (in
total).
After the play, Alexander Schindler, Jeanette Langner, Nehemiah Jungmann and Lars Alfers left us and we gained Alina Schunk, Alexander Geiss, Julie Bonnaire, Antje Machnicki and Jeremy Seifert as new members.
On April, 24th, May, 7th and June, 11st 2016 we successfully performed our crime dinner "Mordsgeschaeft" in front of 198 viewers (in total) at Restaurant "Kaufmann´s" in Gelnhausen-Meerholz.
On May, 30th 2016 our AGM took place.
Julia Reis (Chairwoman), Alexander Spaeth (Vicechair), Alina Schunk (Treasurer) and Melanie Uhlmann (Secretary) are
from now on representing the executive comittee.
Currently we are projecting following productions:
Street theater in several cities in summer 2016 and a workshow in 2017. More details will be announced soon.
We are always searching for sponsors who might help us purchase mobile stage-elements, a spotlight and stage props.
If our projects have piqued your interest, we welcome you to join us (no matter whether you would like to be an
actor/actress or stage hand, a
technician or a sponsor).