Chamäleon Theater

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Acrobatics, acting and visual arts: the Chameleon Theatre is home to the contemporary circus.

In the beginning was the vaudeville: The audience of the chameleon show "Backstage" was quite astonished. The glitter boy in the spotlight, "... he looks so real, not at all like a dummy", he looks like - Udo Lindenberg. No panic, it was him. The old rocker wanted to perform in the beautiful art nouveau hall of the Chamäleon Varieté. But unfortunately Lindenberg can neither juggle nor trapeze gymnastics. So he does what he can: a little honky-tonky show. Lindenberg as an unannounced encore of a vaudeville evening! Of course a show freak like him fits into the chameleon, whose nonchalant mixture of unforeseen gags and rehearsed mishaps has long since been copied by other houses.

The 90s: Higher, faster, further

In February 1991, a couple of freaks around clown Hacki Ginda and musician Peter Rose conquered the empty rehearsal stage of GDR television in the Hackesche Höfe, which at the time was still desolate. They had brought the successful concept from their tent variety show "Parodie Paradies". "Higher, faster, further" was never the motto here. Room for improvisation and a cooperation of the artists was long the concept for success - and thus they had a lasting influence on the new Berlin Varieté. Nevertheless, it was over for the time being in 2004. A fresh team took over and celebrated great success with shows like "Loft" by the artists' group 7Fingers. Source: Kulturverführer Berlin, 10th edition

The Chameleon Theater today

Since 2004, the creators of the Chameleon have devoted themselves passionately to the contemporary circus. This describes an art form that is situated between acrobatics, dance, music, acting, light and video design. The intention is to break with circus conventions in order to redefine the term circus. With this orientation, the Chameleon Theatre should be unique in the city.

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