Club Teleskop

Since the 2013/14 season, the theatre play club “Die Forscher*innen” has been on an expedition. The goal is uncertain. The fellow travellers constantly redefine it. They move on unsteady ground and never know where their search will lead them.

Ireen Bernhard

New Production (26/27)

For teens ages 12 to 15

We’ll try things out, play, write scripts, conduct experiments, interview people, build sets, design costumes, and much more! In the end, we’ll use all of this to create our own play. This season is all about the things we don’t understand—can we find the right key to unlock them? Sign up even if you don’t want to act, but would like to help with the set design and costumes!

Directed by: Jeanne Louët & Alexander Kuen
Registration: clubteleskop(at)gripswerke.de
Premiere: April 3, 2027
Project period: October 2026 to May 2027
Location: GRIPS Podewil am Alex

TASTE TEST - The Best Recipes (25/26) by Club Teleskop X Young RambaZamba

This season, Club Teleskop and Junges RambaZamba are transforming the stage into a commercial kitchen and testing out their most important recipes—whether for life or, quite literally, for cooking and eating. They experiment, adjust the seasoning, take notes, create, taste, discard, and start over.

Fourteen young people aged 12 and up invite the audience to reflect on the big questions: What do we actually like and dislike? What recipes do we know, and what do they mean to us? Which ones will we keep, and which ones urgently need to be rewritten?

By and with

Daniel Beesk, Ella Willeke, Fiete Boeken, Friederike Rühmann, Hanna Nguyen, Henri Kamisch, Junis Scheffel, Kseniia Bokanova, Leander Schulte, Luzia Grünheit, Oskar Flamm, Patrick Stocklaß, Rose Migsch-Sharpe, Vida Hunt-Hurle

Artistic Direction (Set Design & Theater Education)

Jeanne Louët, Anne-Sophie Brunold, Alexander Kuen

Music

Jaime Pazos

Assistant

Marlene Bakker

Set Design Assistant

Julika Haring

Documentation/Video Technology

Yannick Papenfuß

Photos

Kathleen Kunath, Zé de Paiva

Technical Support

Jerry Geiger

A project by GRIPS Werke e.V. in collaboration with GRIPS Theater, Rambazamba Theater, Comenius School, and the M24 Youth Cultural Center, and supported by ASSITEJ as part of “Kultur macht stark”

Premiere May 16, 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Additional performances: May 17, 4 p.m. & May 18, 4 p.m.

 

 

CRASH (Speilzeit 24/25)

A destructive play development of the Club Teleskop 
All rules stand. The joints are warmed up. The tools are ready. We are here to finally destroy everything that annoys, disturbs, bores, distracts or saddens us! It's going to be fantastic, loud, sparkling and liberating! And we'll just feel so much better afterwards! Can we succeed? Will we let go of all our inhibitions? Or will we end up feeling sorry again and a guilty conscience will come knocking? Can we still produce something useful from the shards or is it gone forever?

In the new play developed by Club Teleskop, young people aged between 12 and 15 deal with the sense and nonsense of destruction. They try to break things and learn something about themselves in the process and ask themselves whether wild destructive rage is sometimes just as important as constructive suggestions.

By and with
Lydia Harsch, Hajo Fiete Haase, Vida Hunt-Hurle, Patrick Haake, Amaru Jarrín, Henri Kamisch, Rose Migsch-Sharpe, Karl Pietzcker, Jette Reininghaus, Joscha Schütz, Leander Schulte, Rio Visaczki, Ella Selin Willeke

Artistic direction
Alexander Kuen (director / theater pedagogy) & Jeanne Louët (stage / costume)
Choreography & dance Jana-Marie Schwennesen
Assistance & theater pedagogy Franziska Hildebrandt
Photos Sabine Alex, Patryk Witt
Documentation / video technology Yannick Papenfuß
Project management Laura Mirjam Walter
Technology Jerry Geiger, Moritz Becker

Premiere April 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Further appointments: April 27 and 28 at 4:00 p.m.

Admission free - donations welcome| Registration under:
Tel.: 030 - 39 74 74 77
Email: tickets[at]grips-theater.de

Past productions:

  • SINKEN (Spielzeit 23/24)

    SINKEN Wir wollen ja alle noch ins Meer
    Ich tauche unter und die Welt wird still. Zuerst kommt es mir vor, als ob ich Luft holen müsste, aber nach und nach vergesse ich es. Ich öffne die Augen und sehe alles, ich fühle, wie das Wasser an mir vorbei rauscht, vergesse alles andere und tauche tiefer und tiefer und tiefer. Dort, wo es vorher düster und kalt war, ist es jetzt schön und warm, ich lasse mich treiben, ich werde eins, ich bin endlich angekommen. Dann wache ich auf. Ich bekomme keine Luft.

    In der neuen Stückentwicklung des Club Teleskop gehen Jugendliche zwischen 12 und 15 Jahren in ihre zweite Runde zum Thema Artensterben. Diesmal tauchen sie ganz tief unter Wasser, suchen dort nach vielfältigen Lebensformen, schwimmen wieder nach oben und fragen sich: Was hat das Leben da unten mit uns Menschen zu tun? Können wir uns mit ihm anfreunden oder wäre es besser für alle, uns davon fernzuhalten? Wer hängt wie von wem ab? Und wie können wir dafür sorgen, dass das Leben bleibt?

    Von und mit (Bühne, Kostüm & Spiel): Victor Westner, Kimiko Schlangen, Amaru Jarrín, Karl Pietzcker, Austen Belinchon, Malke Vishnevets, Jette Reininghaus, Edda Röthke, Lydia Harsch, Rose Migsch-Sharpe, Nelli Koroleva, Thea Werner, Joscha Schütz, Charlotte Maria Lange, Helena Vaa.
    Künstlerische Leitung: Jeanne Louët (Bühne & Kostüm), Alexander Kuen (Regie & Theaterpädagogik)
    Assistenz & Nachgespräche: Hannah Langlo
    Video: Yannick Papenfuß
    Fotos: Camila Padilha
    Technik: Jerry Geiger

    Premiere: 6. April 2024, 18 Uhr
    Weitere Vorstellungen: 7. April, 16 Uhr und 8. April, 10 Uhr (Schulvorstellung)
    Direkt im Anschluss an die Vorstellungen finden Nachgespräche zu den Inhalten des Stückes statt.

    Im GRIPS Podewil, Klosterstraße 68, 10179.          

    Der Club Teleskop ist ein Jugendclubprojekt der GRIPS Werke e.V. in Kooperation mit dem GRIPS Theater. Er wird gefördert durch ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL mit Mitteln des Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung sowie der Losito-Kressmann-Zschach Foundation
  • GELÉE ROYALE (Spielzeit 22/23)

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    Eine Produktion des Club Teleskop
    Treffen sich eine Biene, ein Breitmaulnashorn, ein Geier und ein Pilz auf einer abgegrasten Rettungsinsel. Sie setzen alles daran, den rettenden Beschluss zu finden, das ultimative Übereinkommen, das eine Gesetz, das wirklich hilft. Ihr Ziel: Alle überleben und keiner bleibt zurück. Doch wer isst hier eigentlich wen? Wer von uns ist heute wer? Wer ist ganz oben und wen holt am Ende der Geier? Und wo ist die Schildkröte abgeblieben?

    In ihrer neuen Stückentwicklung nehmen die Jugendlichen des Club Teleskop nicht weniger unter die Lupe als Artenvielfalt und das Leben selbst. Sie fragen sich, wer wen zum Überleben braucht und von wem wie abhängt, suchen nach Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen einem Bienenstock, unserer Stadt und der ganzen Erde und wollen wissen, was das alles mit uns als Menschen zu tun hat.

    Von und mit: Marie Andree, Sky Arndt, Jannes Blanck, Christina Breitkreiz, Bela Clemm, Lydia Harsch, Amaru Jarrín, Katka Knapp, Elina Pekić, Karl Richard Pietzcker, Jette Reininghaus, Joe Sahi, Clementina Salvino, Tilda Rebecca Scholtys, Ida Schulz
    Künstlerische Leitung: Sofie Hüsler, Alexander Kuen
    Bühne & Kostüm: Jeanne Louët
    Assistenz & Nachgespräche: Franziska Rieger
    Dokumentation & Fotos: Katya Ganochkina
    Technik: Jerry Geiger

    Herzlichen Dank an Katharina Hennemuth vom WWF und Silke Meyer (salzundhonig.de).

    Premiere 19.5.2023, 18 Uhr

    Weitere Vorstellungen 20.5.2023, 18 Uhr und 21.5.2023, 16 Uhr

    Direkt im Anschluss an die Vorstellungen finden Nachgespräche zu den Inhalten des Stückes statt.

    Der Club Teleskop ist ein Jugendclubprojekt der GRIPS Werke e.V. in Kooperation mit dem GRIPS Theater. Er wird gefördert durch ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL mit Mitteln des Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung sowie der Losito-Kressmann-Zschach Foundation.

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  • SYNAPSENKOLLISSION (Spielzeit 21/22)

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    When is something new really new? A real innovation? Or just an update of what has already existed for a long time? This season, Club Teleskop is looking at innovations, big and small ideas that are changing our world or have changed it in the past. We dare to take a look into the smallest brain twists and into the wide universe and ask ourselves: Where does an idea originate?

    Direction and contact: Alexander Kuen and Sofie Hüsler

    Registration at al.kuen[at]posteo.de

  • HARTE ARBEIT (Spielzeit 20/21)
    None Yannick Papenfuß

    Season 2020/2021

    Once again, the theatre play club “Die Forscher*innen” set out on a research expedition. Its new production revolves around the concepts of work, productivity and growth. 16 young people examine and question goals 8 (“decent work and economic growth”) and 9 (“industry, innovation and infrastructure”) of the 2030 Agenda.

    The participants rediscover the world of work that surrounds them, consider and test alternative concepts for the distribution of work and wealth, develop ideas for shaping their future and redefine key terms. What if our income and our work were completely separate from each other? What if we just let the machines do most of our work and split the rest between us? And which innovations do we really need in order to distribute wealth fairly?

    Direction: Wiebke Hagemeier and Alexander Kuen
    Email: wiebke.hagemeier[at]grips-theater.de

  • Vorbei? (Season 19/20)

    All episodes from now on at grips.online/vorbei!

    This time 17 young people between the ages of 12 and 15 deal with goals 11 and 13 of the 2030 Agenda in the theater play club “Die Forscher*innen”. Accordingly, they dealt with sustainable urban development and climate protection and took new, sometimes unusual perspectives on the topic. They were advised by representatives of the “epiz – Development Pedagogical Information Centre Berlin” and the “UfU – Independent Institute for Environmental Issues”, who were ready for intensive and informative discussions.

    And in the middle of the rehearsal process, something extraordinary happened: due to the coronavirus, neither personal rehearsals nor the performances could take place in May 2020. But the rehearsals continued – digitally in video conferences. So the idea arose to develop a radio play in three episodes from a play. In joint digital rehearsals, “Die Forscher*innen” diligently recorded the texts – each individually at home and yet digitally connected to one another.

    The Berlin city goddess Alexa is beside herself: Somebody declared a climate emergency – and she really wanted to avoid that. The mayor breaks off his pottery course and comes immediately to the crisis meeting. And the Berliners, too, for whom climate change has always been a long way off, are now shuffling through hail and storms from ignorance to panic to pragmatism, developing their very own emergency plan. Can the city still be saved? Which ideas from other regions of the world could help? And what is the best way to deal with climate destroyers?

    A radio play by and with: Alisa, Antonia, Ela, Gil, Helene, Lejs, Leni, Lia, Lilli, Lotte, Mariano, Marten, Matea, Nisa, Sophia, Stella, Zuzia

    Speaker: Frederic Phung

    Project assistance and sound engineering: Paloma Zandonella
    Sound design, editing and sound engineering: Mareike Trillhaas
    Project management and direction: Anne Herrmann and Stefanie Kaluza

    Episode 1 went online on Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Episode 2 went online on Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Episode 3 went online on Friday, 18 September, 2020
     

  • Frieden = ? (Season 17/18)

    A wide variety of people gather in the test laboratory for world peace: A thought researcher who can give people inner peace with his machine at the last moment, a journalist who makes people think about peace, a super quiet and super strong superhero, an arms dealer who doesn’t want to believe in peace at all. Their common task: To find a strategy for peace worldwide that should then be applied to the entire earth. Well, will that work?

    This time, 13 young people between the ages of 12 and 15 are grappling with the subject of peace in the theater play club “Die Forscher*innen” – and not entirely without prejudice: Frieden? The topic is trite, there will never be world peace anyway, people have always been violent, war has always existed and will always exist...

    Scenes and figures emerge in joint improvisations that illuminate the topic from different perspectives. Supported by peace researchers from the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin, who were ready for an intensive and inspiring conversation with the participants.

    Direction: Anne Herrmann, Stefanie Kaluza

    Dates: 11.05.2018 at 18:00 GRIPS Podewil (Premiere)

    12.05.2018 at 18:00 GRIPS Podewil
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  • Rotglanz und Diamanten (Season 16/17)

    Emma, Eevee and Lilja are normal schoolgirls – with an interesting hobby: They spy. From their control centre, they spy extensively and with appropriate know-how on their neighbourhood. No flower shop, no criminal organisation, no street sweeper is safe from them! Yes, they do not even shy away from THE secret service. But that has consequences that will later lead to their undoing. And suddenly this strange flower pops up that everyone is so crazy about. Suddenly everything seems suspicious...

    Management, direction, dramaturgy: Anne Herrmann, Stefanie Kaluza
    Features: Vanessa Gärtner
    Director’s assistant: Wendy Pladeck

    With: Hazal Asci, Paula Beckmann, Jorina Blanck, Emil Bogs, Kassandra Catrisioti-Forgione, Nika Djordjadze-Reihse, Lilly Gocht, Mira Jablonski, Shaleen Krause, Lasse Kühlke, Lena Lauterbach, Fleurie Malburg, Emily Nielen, Zusanna Piwowarczyk, Laura Schmitt-Gläser, Fritzi Schneider-Reuter, Marlene Schuller, Gregor Skoll, Tamaya Vásquez, Noemi Helena Wahl, Jakob Wohlrab

    Premiere: Saturday 06 May 2017, 18:00 GRIPS Podewil

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