Geschichtentheater. Den Himmel tragen. Die Geschichte eines Steins. Erzählt von Maria Carmela Marinelli und Nicola Knappe

In the organizer's words:

Not far from Berlin, near a river, a large mountain rises into the sky. It has stood there unchanged for thousands of years. Until one day craftsmen come and cut a large piece of rock out of the mountain and take it with them. And so it begins, the story of a stone.
We can still see them today, the stone figures in and around the Humboldt Forum. Be it the great ancient hero Hercules or the Roman god Jupiter. Many stories are connected with all these figures. But what does the stone they are made of tell? What adventures has it experienced?
In the program, the two artists Nicola Knappe and Maria Carmela Marinelli combine the history of the stone figures with mythological tales from antiquity to create a humorous and imaginative synthesis of the arts in Italian and German.

Maria Carmela Marinelli is a storyteller, theater pedagogue (M.A.) and DaF/DaZ teacher (M.A.), trained at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is active in storytelling projects in Berlin and Saxony, performs at international storytelling festivals, and leads advanced trainings on tandem storytelling, multilingual storytelling, and storytelling in foreign language teaching at the University of Leipzig, Halle, and Jena. She tells stories extremely vital, suggestive, full of humor, with exuberant temperament, in German, Italian, Spanish - and when language is no longer enough, with hands, feet and a big heart, until the air burns.

Nicola Knappe grew up with music and movement. She studied rhythm/music and movement at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Already during her studies, her artistic interest lay in the creative implementation of language. This was followed by further training in theater and dance pedagogy, including at the Tanzfabrik Berlin and the Exploratorium. Since 2007, Nicola Knappe has been teaching rhythmics in family centers, daycare centers and music schools. In 2016-2018 she successfully participated as a scholarship holder in the advanced training Storytelling in art and education at the UdK. She designs and implements storytelling projects with welcome classes and can be seen artistically as a storyteller at events, in theaters, at festivals and markets. Nicola Knappe is a lecturer for storytelling (VHS Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg) and movement (UdK) and an active member of Erzählkunst e.V. She lives with her three children in Berlin-Karlshorst.