LOVE PLAY FIGHT: TOWARDS AN UNCONDITIONAL THEATRE
by Hayat Erdoğan, Tine Milz and Julia Reichert
Photo: Ela Çelik
Since 2019 the trio Milz, Erdoğan, and Reichert have collectively run the Theatre Neumarkt – a municipal theater with an own ensemble and workshops. Conceptually and structurally, they have opened the theater towards an institution that plays with the idea of being an institution. Theatre Neumarkt is Playground, Academy, Residency, assembly space and much more. The Theatre program tries to not reproduce canonical theater, it’s rather leaning towards experimental artistic creations. The production logics and processes have thus opened to more collaborative, co-creative processes.
Tine Milz
‘Love play fight’ is our credo and battle cry, our invitation to the city, our audience, the artists we work with, and our colleagues. Under this motto we are creating and shaping a contemporary art institution with four divisions–playground, theatre, academy, and digital–where people come together to love, play, and fight.
Hayat Erdoğan
We believe that Theatre Neumarkt is exactly the kind of place that allows us to do so – not only because of its eventful and political history, but also because it is one of the few institutions that has commissioned artistic experiment and institutional critique. Theatre Neumarkt has repeatedly made artistic statements, stretched boundaries, and provoked thought and discussion. We aim to stress this quality and to work it further, radicalize it. Our aim is to establish a place that loves, fights, breathes, moves, argues, and allows contradictions.
Julia Reichert
We work as an advisory collective and develop a culture in which we make decisions mutually and take responsibility for them mutually. We know that collective leadership and flat hierarchies require more exchange and greater skills in conducting dialogue and dealing with conflict (we are up for that). When it is about condensing, blending, and bringing different things together, we trust that collective processes produce more interesting results than conventional hierarchical management structures.
Tine Milz
We want to be an embracing and accessible place that invites and hosts everyone to ask what is worth loving, playing, and fighting for. we’re serious about love play fight and that’s what we stand for.
