She She Pop

She She Pop is a Berlin-based feminist performance collective that emerged in the 1990s from the Giessen Institute for Applied Theater Studies.

The members see themselves as authors, dramaturges and performers of their stage action. The inclusion of their own autobiography is above all a method, not a purpose of the work. She She Pop practices a form of theater that is committed to experimentation. They use the stage as a place of acute public: here decisions are made, ways of talking and social systems are tried out, speech gestures and social rituals are rehearsed or discarded. She She Pop sees its task as a search to find the social limits of communication – and to go beyond the protective space of the theatre, in both specific and artistic terms. The theatre is turned into a space for utopian communication. The audience, too, is often given a special function: all of She She Pop’s works are experiments or demonstrations of evidence that would be invalid without spectators.

Members are Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf, and Elke Weber. Former group members are Fanni Halmburger, Claude Jansen, Katharina Oberlik and Anja von Steht.

In the production office at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Tina Ebert, Aminata Oelßner and Elke Weber are responsible for management, administration and finance, production, acquisition, distribution, communication and touring.

The international production house HAU Hebbel am Ufer has been She She Pops continuous co-producer and cooperation partner in Berlin since 2003. In addition, there is a wide network of cooperating houses in Germany and abroad: Kampnagel Hamburg, Forum Freies Theater in Dusseldorf, Mousonturm Frankfurt / Main, HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Residency Schauspiel Leipzig, Kaserne Basel, Theatre de la Ville / Festival d’Automne de Paris, Festival Kyoto Experiment, ACT Festival Sofia, Hängo Teaterträff, SPRING Utrecht, Prague German language Festival and Festival delle Colline Torinesi Turin / TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa.
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At KlangKunstBühne 2025 they will give the workshop Inventing and fulfilling: the task at the centre of a performative action.