FENSTER ZUR STADT
FENSTER ZUR STADT
The theatre Fenster zur Stadt (Window to the city), founded in Hannover in 2000, is a theatre collective. The person behind the monkey mask in Frank Schinski's photo is a secret. It is not a secret that the off-theatre was founded by Ruth Rutkowski and Carsten Hentrich as a cooperative of professional theatre people. Today its members include Alexandra Faruga, Melanie Huke and Heino Sellhorn. Fenster zur Stadt has received numerous awards for their plays, including the PRIZE OF FREE THEATRES 2005, the PRIZE OF FREE CHILDREN's AND YOUTH THEATRE 2008, and has been invited to BEST OFF, the theatre festival of the Stiftung Niedersachsen in 2011, 2016 and 2018.
The projects planned for 2020, KAFKA : OFFBEAT and the staging of the youth book WIR BEIDE WUSSTEN ES WAR WAS PASSIERT, focus on “the increasing fragmentation of our society into individual interests, the adversities of progressive isolation and the chances of rediscovering friendship, public spirit and solidarity. Themes to which theatre in particular, as a genuinely social form of art, can contribute experiences and perspectives”(quoted from Hannovermagazin). In times of the pandemic and lockdown, the theatre company has produced the Internet version of MINISTERIUM FÜR EINSAMKEIT (Ministry of Loneliness). Spectators encounter there the world-famous officer of the Prague Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute: KAFKA. OFF. BUREAU.
FRANK SCHINSKI
(*1975, Prenzlau) trained as a mason and worked at construction sites for several years. 1998–1999 he completed high school with a second-chance programme. 1999–2006 he studied photography at the Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts with Rolf Nobel. 2002 KODAK YOUNG TALENT PRIZE, 2007 First Prize in the vfa and FOCUS magazine competition on research photography. 2008 and 2018 VG Photo Art Scholarship. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2009. His photo series have been shown in many exhibitions, including ÜBER GRENZEN (Across borders) in the Hygiene Museum Dresden, ORT/ZEIT/LOS in the Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, and IST DOCH SO in the Gallery of the Poll Art Foundation, Berlin, and the Gallery for Photography, Hannover.