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Rroma Aether Klub Theater

Year of foundation of the theater	2006
Place:	Berlin, Germany
Leader of the theater:	Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković, Rebecca D. Surber
Main artists:	Nebojša Marković - actor, director, writer Slaviša Marković - actor, director, theater educator

“You should look more for what connects you, and make what we have in common an issue.”

- the Marković Brothers in taz.de

About the theater

In 2006 the brothers Slaviša and Nebojša Marković founded the Rroma Aether Klub Theater in Berlin - a mixture of a meeting place and a studio stage. The close collaboration with artists from different cultures with or without a Rroma background has led to several co-productions and various events from various cultural pillars. The audience was just as diverse. In the Rroma A.K.T. people of different origins came together without the respective identity becoming the only problematized and thus, also stigmatized content. Rroma A.K.T. stands for the artistically high-quality, performative art and culture of the Rroma and non-Rroma.

As a further development of the Rroma A.K.T., they founded the “TheaterHermeneutics” project in collaboration with Rebecca D. Surber in 2018. Using new artistic methods, the project paves the way for shared perspectives and experiences of Rroma and non-Rroma that have not yet been captured in society.

The team deals with existential challenges, including identification and exclusion, and wants to reach the diverse and demanding audience visually, literally, and atmospherically on an emotional level based on human connectedness.

AWARDS

2013
First Prize at the “Secondo Theater Festival”, Switzerland for Das Zimmerradio

Main productions

2022
Nebošja Marković, Samuel Beckett, Aglaja Veteranyi: Road to Babylon (Straße nach Babylon)
D.: Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković

On the way from the past to the future she finds herself in the wake of repeating memories – finds herself in in the twist of escape and arriving. A journey from nowhere to somewhere.
But how can one honestly live oneself, one's humanity, if you are constantly “spread out” as a projection surface for the expectations of others? How do you find your way out of this narrowness without being torn apart?
An inner dialogue, an examination and experience of one's own insights, perspectives and emotions, a multi-stage journey through almost forgotten days, back to oneself and one's voice. A rebirth from speechlessness.

"One road is like another; one road is just as good as another if you don't know the direction."

An evening in the spirit of mutual inspiration, connection and the lifting of the curtain. In German and Rromaness.

Volksbühne Berlin ( Volksbühne Berlin)
Berlin, Germany

2021-present
Green Salon
We are the operators of the Green Salon of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin. We manage it autonomously in terms of art and content. In addition to the opportunity to work with other artists or make the space available to them, we also show our own productions.

Volksbühne Berlin ( Volksbühne Berlin)
Berlin, Germany

2021
Nebojša Marković: Ando Kher (Ando Kher)
D.: Nebojša Marković

Situations of hopelessness and being at the mercy of invisible forces shape our being, our self-image and our world. But it is not this disempowerment that determines us but rather the situation of security, love and understanding. All of this demands our abilities to deal creatively and constructively with challenges. How do we express our sensitivities, images and thoughts?
Our goal is to offer as many people as possible support using artistic tools in the fields of literature, theater and film, in order to strengthen their own voice and help them express themselves.

TAK Theater Aufbauhaus Kreuzberg
(TAK Theater Aufbauhaus Kreuzberg)
Berlin, Germany

2020
Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković, Franz Kafka:
I Can See You (Ich sehe Dich)
*film adaptation of the play, online premier*
D.: Nebojša Marković

Film adaptation in a new style of the play I can see you, with Nebojša Marković.

IV. International Roma Heroes Festival Independent Theater
Online

2020
Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković, Franz Kafka:
I Can See You (Ich sehe Dich)
D.: Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković

Based on the short story called Burrow by Franz Kafka. A parody of the nation state and the petty bourgeoisie which increasingly determine the political landscape of Europe.
The story is about a small predator living underground in a home made by himself. His goal is to protect himself from the world, of its supposed and real dangers. As a solution, he isolates himself from everyone. In the end, the safe home becomes the prison of his own fears.

TAK Theater Aufbauhaus Kreuzberg
(TAK Theater Aufbauhaus Kreuzberg)
Berlin, Germany

2015
Carlo Collodi, Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković, Sam T. Fard: Pinocchio Ex Machina
(Pinocchio Ex Machina)
D.: Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković

Only after we have executed Pinocchio several times do we finally find out what we wanted to know about him and his adventures. It is a meticulous reconstruction of his adventures.

Volksbühne Berlin ( Volksbühne Berlin)
Berlin, Germany

2013
Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković:
The Roomradio (Das Zimmerradio)
D.: Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković

In war it is the dark side of human nature that dominates. The morals are brutalized: hatred, manipulation, and the struggle for one's own survival shape people’s existence - The Room Radio is about war.
In the room of a homeless person there is a radio that carries the external realities of the inner war. Messages that may or may not be believed come. Various characters pay visits to the homeless in his room. They all have set themselves the goal of realizing their plans in their own way. And the homeless man lets his imagination run wild between the visits.

Volksbühne Berlin (Volksbühne Berlin)
Berlin, Germany

Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković, William Shakespeare:
Marketplace Stories
(Marktplatz Geschichten – Geschichten Markt)
D.: Slaviša Marković

Stories from the everyday lives of the "home slaves", transformed into an imaginative theater. A marketplace becomes a communicative interface between art and everyday life. Based loosely on Shakespeare and orally transmitted stories by Rroma showmen.

Berlin, Germany

2012
Slaviša Marković, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, G. E. Lessing, Franz Kafka:
The theatre- search for Mr. K 2
(Das Theater - Suche nach Herrn K. 2)
D.: Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković

The theater of Stanislawski, Brecht and Beckett, as well as Lessing and Kafka merge in a socially critical production about a person, Joze Kurtic, who is teleported during his dreams of a better life and suddenly finds himself in a new world. There he gets in conflict with his own questions from everyday life. J. Kurtic, finally realizes that it is a theater stage. The game of the characters involved wanders from subjective and objective oppression to equality and moralization.

Berlin, Germany

2010
Slaviša Marković, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, G. E. Lessing, Franz Kafka: Search for Mr. K
(Suche nach Herrn K.)
D.: Slaviša Marković

Jože Kurtic has heard about a certain Mr. K. and embarks on a philosophical search for him and his ethics.
By fantasizing about Mr. K.'s location, Mr. Jože K. is teleported from a ghetto, together with his bed, to somewhere else. He wakes up in the room of a lovely young lady. Strangely enough, he is interrogated by officers there and ends up in an endless process. Through an entanglement of circumstances and a coincidence, Jože K. helps the baron, the father of the young lady, to find his lost treasure.
There are no words for how grateful and appreciative the landlord shows himself to Mr. Kurtic.
But Jože K. continues to oscillate between his inner task - the search for Mr. K. and reality.

Berlin, Germany

2008
Slaviša Marković: Circus (Zirkus)
D.: Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković
Two stranded figures with empty stomachs, who are in search of happiness. A circus seems to have everything they need. In their attempts to get a job as clowns, they stumble through the most absurd situations - sometimes over their own feet, sometimes over the pitfalls of reality.

Berlin, Germany

2007
Short Stories from Anton Chekhov
(Aus dem Erzählwerk von Anton Tschechow)
*radio play*
D.: Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković

Based on Anton Chekhov's narrative.

Neukölln Cultural Festival
(Neuköllner Kulturfestival)
Berlin, Germany

2007
Dario Fo: Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay?
(Bezahlt wird nicht)
D.: Slaviša Marković, Hamze Bytyci

Development and performance of Dario Fo's play Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay? as part of the 3rd European Theater Adventure.

The 3d European Theater Adventure Days at the See
(3rd European Theater Adventure bei den Theatertagen am See)
Lindau, Germany

2006
Slaviša Marković, Nebojša Marković: Radiorama
*live radio broadcast show*
D.: Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković

The premiere took place in 2006 with the artist and painter Julia Vitalis. Since 2007 the European politician Cem Özdemir as well as actor and author Nedjo Osman, and the writer Jovan Nikolić have appeared as studio guests who make the culture of the Rroma and Sinti visible with their artistic work.

Berlin, Germany

2006
The Gypsies in the Haunted House, it was and it wasn't
(Die Zigeuner im Spukhaus, Es war und es war nicht)
*theatrical reading*

From the book "Rroma Volks Sagen und Erzählungen." A parody of the romanticization of the unknown.

Berlin, Germany

Guest performances

Nebojša Marković, Slaviša Marković:
The Roomradio (Das Zimmerradio)
2013
-> Secondo Theaterfestival
Aarau Theater (Bühne Aarau, Tuchlaube)
Aarau, Switzerland

-> Secondo Theater Festival
St. Gallen Theater (Theater St. Gallen)
St. Gallen, Switzerland

-> Secondo Theater Festival
Theater Basel (Theater Basel)
Basel, Switzerland

-> Secondo Theater Festival
TOBS Theater (Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn)
Biel, Switzerland