Neuropolis

Neuro Polis (own spelling neuro polis) was an international media and theater festival, which took place from 1999 to 2006 year in Berlin -Mitte.

After the completion of the course Theatre Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin emerged from the Festival of nonprofit cultural association produced neuro polis eV, which aims to promote artistic, cultural or socio-political projects, to develop and implement.

Name

The name of Neuro Polis results in the "good " reading as a combination of conceptual main components: Neuronal processes form the lowest common denominator of the perception and processing of the theater audience, and the polis as a place of democratic- pluralist articulation symbolizes the space for open discussion and exchange.

In the "bad " reading Neuro Indianapolis is a city Verkodung € matic views with a simple pun on Metropolis.

Organization

Neuro Polis, although infrastructural support of the theater center of the house and studio theater, organized by volunteer students from different disciplines. The size of the team varied annually 8-25 people. A hierarchy in the strict sense, it was just as a legal form - but it existed responsible for certain areas people.

History

Theatre Meeting of the Berlin universities

The beginnings of Neuro Polis are in the year 1998, when the Department " Theatre and Cultural Communication " at Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin, the existing studio stage should be used to give the students of theater studies in Berlin better performance opportunities for their works.

Accordingly Neuro Polis started on a small scale rather than " theater meeting of the Berlin universities " and remained student- organized. Almost the entire organization ran from within the seminar building, also the organizing team consisted primarily of students of the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University.

Festival for young European Theatre

In 2003, the Festival took place a fundamental expansion, both locally and conceptually. About an intense contact with the Teatr Kana in Szczecin and the people there are festival " Okno " (Polish: window) was a space for lively artistic exchange, a major focus of the design, created. Since then, both festivals and parts of the performing artists visit.

Moreover, it was with the extension also another venue, the theater center of the house. In total, the festival gained a second leg, as now made ​​guest appearances alongside student also increased productions from the independent scene. Likewise, the festival has increasingly expanded to include a program with exhibitions and installations. The productions shown on the evening Neuro polis was open to all forms of speech to figures or object theater.

The highlight in this combination was in 2005, when Neuro Polis simultaneously acted as Projekttutorium at the Humboldt University and presented a half weeks over a hundred artists. The organization of the festival was still by the students, the stages were there - about in the press and public relations - an advisory capacity.

European Theatre and Media Festival

After 2005 a turning point took place in the development of the festival. Due to the resignation of Theatre Studies at the Humboldt University, which was replaced there since 2003 increasingly by the media studies, a partial redesign that will handle the framework program equivalent to the performances showed. In addition, France was admitted as partner country.

2006 Festival was held for the last time.