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Scaena Corpus - Mann und Puppe nehmen Maß

From 14 years, duration approx. 45 min
 

Body images, self-perception, ideals of beauty plague it - the body that wants to be on stage. How to withstand the gaze of the audience? How to deal with your own body? Designed as a puppet-mirror-figure play, an exploration of self-perception and the perception of others begins, a play about body images and ideals, an attempt to break through the expected in order to feel free and complete. A step, a journey, an encouragement.

 

Play, direction, concept and set: Lukas Schneider

Artistic supervision: Benno Muheim, Björn Langhans

Outside view: Emil Fischer
Mentor: Florian Feisel

Voice recordings: Josephine Hochbruck

Musical consulting: Almut Lustig
Documentation: Álvaro García

 

Scaena Corpus won the 2023 Fritz Wortelmann Prize and was nominated for the 2026 Grünschnabel Prize.

 

Created as part of the Bachelor production in the Puppet Theatre course at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts in cooperation with Das Weite Theater Berlin and Fitz Stuttgart, as well as a residency at Theater Stadelhofen Zurich
Premiere: 23 September 2022
 

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Downloads: 

• Flyer Scaena Corpus

• Technical Rider Scaena Corpus from 19.2.24 

 

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 Jury statement "Fritz Wortelmann" Prize 2023:

"Lukas Schneider and his team invite us on a very personal journey of confrontation with our own body identities. In doing so, Lukas Schneider shows us body conventions, breaks them and relentlessly puts himself in relation to them. Using a deliberate variety of figure-theatrical means, he intelligently creates an aesthetic cosmos that allows us to experience the painfulness of artistic reflection in a sensual way. The production demonstrates a high level of confidence in the chosen form, skilfully alternates between performative elements, scenes with precisely directed figures and cleverly used music and text material, and makes the leap from the puppet to its own body. All of this testifies to the remarkable courage of an individual artist and opens up a biographical enquiry into a larger social context."