Ensemble

The multi-award-winning transnational performance group Hajusom (including winners of the Berlin Festival 2015 and 2001, Max Brauer Prize of the Alfred Töpfer Foundation 2014, Innovation Prize Socioculture Fund 2012) has been developing numerous innovative formats on topics such as globalization and transculturality, colonialism, migration and flight with artists from different genres since 1999. Numerous innovative and award-winning formats have been created in collective working methods with a continuous artistic team on site and changing external artists.

About once a year, the world premiere of a new production is celebrated at Kampnagel/Hamburg, Hajusom's long-standing co-production partner, before it goes on tour. Dozens of renowned artists, including Jimi Tenor, Ashraf Sharif Khan and the Ensemble Resonanz, have performed with Hajusom on major stages in Germany and abroad.

Current artistic team

Team

Ensemble Hajusom

Arman Marzak | Inge Matida Jabbie | Jasper Friedrich Tegtmeyer | Leonie Götz | Katalina Götz | Isaac Lokolong | MOMO | Stanley Dennis | Robert Ebhodaghe

Team Jump into the Void

Artistic direction + performance JAJAJA (Iris Minich & Arvild J. Baud)
Choreography Cliff Tin Yeung Huen
Dramaturgy Fernanda Ortiz
Stage design JASCHA&FRANZ (Jascha Kretschmann, Franz Töhricht)
Costume design Sven Diestel
Music Viktor Marek
Art director Melike Bilir
Production management N.N. / Lena Carle
Assistant to the Artistic Director Florencia Lasch
Costume Assistant Macaya Matida Jabbie
Controlling Bernd Kroschewski
Graphics & Documentation studio other types / Thea Seddig
Press and public relations Hark Empen
Honorary Jasper Friedrich Tegtmeyer

Previous projects & cooperations

Dozens of renowned artists, including Jimi Tenor, Ashraf Sharif Khan and the Ensemble Resonanz, have performed with Hajusom on major stages in Germany and abroad.

The collective is internationally networked: Musicians and theater people from all over the world travelled to the Play-Mas-Festival in 2004, a puppet-making workshop took place between Berlin and Bamako in 2012, a collaboration with the eco-art project Jardin Silmandé in Ouagadougou was established in 2014, which continues to this day, and in 2019 the collaboration with the OTHNI Laboratoire/Cameroon was launched.

The most recent collaboration was with the singers and artists Souers Doga from Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso.

Join in

Rehearsals are currently underway for the latest project JUMP INTO THE VOID, which will premiere at Kampnagel on October 24, 2024. In 2025 there will again be the opportunity to become part of the ensemble. A warm invitation! Please get in touch with us!

Shouts From the Block

A hip-hop music video workshop with Thea Seddig & Katharina Stiel

We look at the history of hip-hop and the creation of music videos, examining special features and motifs. The aim is to shoot your own music videos, either individually or in groups. We introduce different filmic approaches, provide materials and offer assistance. We also give an introduction to camera and editing.

The workshop is practice-oriented and open to all approaches and ideas, in the spirit of intercultural openness.

We look forward to the group and the exchange!

Duration

12.02. 17:00 – 16.04. 21:00

Workshop date

21.05 17:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

28.05 17:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

04.06 17:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

11.06 17:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

18.06 17:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

28.06 17:00 – 21:00

Supported By

Further information about the workshop can be found here: Workshops & Courses

Hip-Hop or what?

Write your own text! With Katrin Seddig

You want to write a hip-hop lyric? You want to write lyrics because you have something to say, because something is bothering you, because you have things inside you that you want to tell the world, but you don't know how or whether you can do it? You can!

You can write a good hip-hop text, a poem, a prose text that has rhythm, that works when performed. Because that's the kind of text we're talking about here. Rhythmic texts.

But if you then realize that this is not your kind of text at all, that you tell a different story, slower, more flowing, then that's OK too, because this workshop is an experiment, a work with you. It's about you, your language, your sound and your themes.

In the course of this workshop, we'll look at hip-hop and other rhythmic lyrics, see how and why they work for us or not. We'll write our own lyrics, try out different forms, discuss it all and get better at it. You get better.

This is all a journey, an experiment. If you have the confidence and can withstand criticism, are prepared to deal with other texts, are keen to write, then it works. I'm not a teacher, we're not a school, we want to have fun, but still do something good, learn something, get ahead.

It's not about how others write and speak, but how you write and speak. We complement each other and learn from each other because we are different and can do different things. Different origins, different imprints, bring different forms of language and expression to the course and weave them into something new and interesting.

At the end, you know what you want, what you can already do, maybe you'll present your favorite text that you like yourself in a slightly larger group (in a final presentation?) If you want. Otherwise not. Otherwise you might be writing lyrics for Kendrick Lamar or Missy Elliot next year. They'll pay you a million for it. For sure!

Duration

25.02. 18:00 – 29.04. 21:00

Workshop date

25.02 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

04.03 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

11.03 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

18.03 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

25.03 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

01.04 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

08.04 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

15.04 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

22.04 18:00 – 21:00

Workshop date

29.04 18:00 – 21:00

Supported By

Further information about the workshop can be found here: Workshops & Courses

Hip-Hop or what?

Write your own text! With Katrin Seddig

You want to write a hip-hop lyric? You want to write lyrics because you have something to say, because something is bothering you, because you have things inside you that you want to tell the world, but you don't know how or whether you can do it? You can!

You can write a good hip-hop text, a poem, a prose text that has rhythm, that works when performed. Because that's the kind of text we're talking about here. Rhythmic texts.

But if you then realize that this is not your kind of text at all, that you tell a different story, slower, more flowing, then that's OK too, because this workshop is an experiment, a work with you. It's about you, your language, your sound and your themes.

In the course of this workshop, we'll look at hip-hop and other rhythmic lyrics, see how and why they work for us or not. We'll write our own lyrics, try out different forms, discuss it all and get better at it. You get better.

This is all a journey, an experiment. If you have the confidence and can withstand criticism, are prepared to deal with other texts, are keen to write, then it works. I'm not a teacher, we're not a school, we want to have fun, but still do something good, learn something, get ahead.

It's not about how others write and speak, but how you write and speak. We complement each other and learn from each other because we are different and can do different things. Different origins, different imprints, bring different forms of language and expression to the course and weave them into something new and interesting.

At the end, you know what you want, what you can already do, maybe you'll present your favorite text that you like yourself in a slightly larger group (in a final presentation?) If you want. Otherwise not. Otherwise you might be writing lyrics for Kendrick Lamar or Missy Elliot next year. They'll pay you a million for it. For sure!

Duration

08.03. 12:00 – 09.03. 15:00

Workshop

08.03. 12:00 – 08.02. 15:00

Workshop

09.03. 12:00 – 09.02. 15:00

Supported By

Further information about the workshop can be found here: Workshops & Courses

Aufführung: Minas Reise

Lass dich von Minas Reise inspirieren und erlebe eine Aufführung, die dein Herz berührt!

Mina ist eine junge Tänzerin, die auf einer tief gehenden Reise durch ihre innersten Gefühle wie Hoffnung, Angst, Liebe und Freude geht. Jede Emotion formt sie, fordert sie heraus und macht sie stärker. Durch ausdruckstarken Tanz und mitreißend Inszenierung entfaltet sich eine bewegende Geschichte voller Leidenschaft und Selbstfindung. 

Der Eintritt ist für alle frei!

Duration

05.03 18:30 – 20:00

Current