Stifters Dinge / Stifter's Things
a performative Installation / music theatre

  • When are things not things? (EN)
    Can you create a theater piece without people? That is the question from prolific German composer and director Heiner Goebbels and his longtime collaborating designer, Klaus Grünberg. Their answer, Stifter’s Dinge, was born in the works of a 19th-century landscape painter and novelist.
    by Gail Obenreder
    BroadStreetReview.com (US)
    8 September 2018
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  • Extraterrestrial-like performance puzzled and awe-struck Klaipedians (EN)
    by Linas Jegelevicius
    The Baltic Times (LT)
    https://www.baltictimes.com/extraterrestrial-like_performance_puzzled_and_awe-struck_klaipedians/
    27 September 2017
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  • „Stifterio daiktai“ Klaipėdoje (L)
    Heineris Goebbelsas festivalyje „Permainų muzika“
    by Mindaugas Urbaitis
    7md (LT)
    15 September 2017
  • Stifterio kanonas „Švyturio“ kanjone (L)
    Jei atsiribotum nuo vyksmo scenoje ir pažvelgtum iš viršaus, kokia nors Dievo ar drono akimi, vaizdas būtų keistas: didžiulės arenos vidury susėdusi grupelė žmonių stebi, kaip jai groja, važinėja, garuoja ir net lenkiasi keistų dekoracijų krūsnis. Sąlyginėje scenoje - nė vieno žmogaus, tik pradžioje pora technikų įmerkia vamzdžius į seklius baseinus, kad pripiltų vandens, o vėliau dingsta. Ir jei sėdintysis toje mažoje grupelėje atitrauktų žvilgsnį nuo scenos ir apsidairytų, jis išvystų jį stebinčius tūkstančius tylių tuščių kėdžių.
    by Vaidas Jauniškis
    Menų faktūra (LT)
    9 September 2017
  • VOCES ANIMADAS (ES)
    by Paula Perez Alonso
    Pagina 12 (AR)
    10 April 2016
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  • Stifters Dinge (EN)
    For the first time in its history, the Colón Theatre is offering a work with no performers, inviting viewers to wonder and ponder an almost otherworldly soundscape.
    Buenos Aires Herald (AR)
    28 February 2016
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  • Elegía para gran mecano (ES)
    "Stifters Dinge"

    La instalación de Heiner Goebbels deslumbró en la apertura del abiono Colón Contemporáneo.
    by Laura Novoa
    Clarin (AR)
    27 February 2016
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  • El tecnorromanticismo de Goebbels (ES)
    La máquina se ubica detrás del escenario principal.
    by Pablo Gianera
    La Nacion (AR)
    27 February 2016
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  • Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo (PT)
    Goebbels é um mestre. Um artista visual, um criador musical, um diretor completo — comentou o diretor Felipe Hirsch após assistir ao trabalho

    Leia mais sobre esse assunto em http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/teatro/mostra-internacional-de-teatro-de-sao-paulo-recebe-mais-de-15-mil-pessoas-15603683#ixzz3UeM7teh7
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    by Luiz Felipe Reis
    O Globo (BR)
    16 March 2015
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  • Sem atores propoe mundo para alem do humano (PT)
    by Maria Eugenia de Menezes
    Estadao (BR)
    http://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/teatro-e-danca,sem-atores-peca-stifters-dinge-propoe-mundo-para-alem-do-humano,1650484#
    14 March 2015
  • Encenador alemão Heiner Goebbels cria peça sem atores (PT)
    'Stifters Dinge', que terá sessões dentro da 2ª MITsp, é um 'espetáculo-instalação' com jogos de luz e som
    Para diretor, estrutura é também uma escolha política e um meio para quebrar a hierarquia no trabalho artístico
    by GABRIELA MELLÃO
    Folha de Sao Paolo (BR)
    10 March 2015
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  • Wunderbar subtil und poetisch (DE)
    Musica: Faszinierende Klangteppiche bei »Stifters Dinge« und den Straßburger Percussionisten
    by Jürgen Haberer
    Baden Online
    http://www.bo.de/kultur/kultur/wunderbar-subtil-und-poetisch
    27 September 2014
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  • Wunderbar subtil und poetisch (DE)
    Musica: Faszinierende Klangteppiche bei »Stifters Dinge «
    by Jürgen Haberer
    Offenburger Tageblatt
    27 September 2014
  • La vie des choses (FR)
    Un nouvel univers prend ainsi naissance, partagé mais multiforme, fait
    de l’Autre et de soi-même.
    by Christine Zimmer
    Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace
    27 September 2014
  • Impresionante Instalacion musical en la Estacion Mapocho (ES)
    Stifters Dinge invita aun sorprerdente viaje sensorial e intelectual
    by Marietta Santi
    Tiempo Libre (CL)
    S.45
    6 January 2014
    Hora IMpresionante (jpg)
  • Rara, misteriosa, quizás mágica (ES)
    by Pedro Labra Herrero
    mercurio (CL)
    6 January 2014
    Misteriosa (jpg)
  • ?Y DONE ESTA EL PIANISTA? (ES)
    by Rodrigo Miranda
    6 January 2014
    PIanista? (jpg)
  • Un Plato fuerte de Santiago a Mil 2014 (ES)
    by Ezio Mosciatti
    BioBioChile.Cl (CL)
    6 January 2014
    Bio Plato (peg)
  • Obra sin actores se luce en Santiago a Mil (ES)
    by Isabel Lamoliatte
    Tiempo Libre (CL)
    6 January 2014
    obra (jpg)
  • invitados a Mil - (ES)
    Heiner Goebbels - el experimentador innato
    by Marietta Santi
    Paula (CL)
    6 January 2014
    Invitados (jpg)
  • El estar regreso de Heiner Goebbels (ES)
    El artista - que ha descollado en el mundi de la opera, el teatro y la composición
    by Maureen Lennon Zaninovic
    El Mercurio (CL)
    28 December 2013
    Tercera regreso (jpg)
  • Wie von Geisterhand gesteuert (DE)
    In "Stifters Dinge" fesselt Heiner Goebbels durch eine imponierende Theatermaschinerie
    by Bernd Aulich
    Recklinghäuser Zeitung
    24 September 2013
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  • Es schläft ein Krach in allen Dingen (DE)
    by Rainer Nonnenmann
    Kölner Stadtanzeiger
    24 September 2013
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  • "Stifters Dinge" in Duisburg: Applaus für eine Maschine (DE)
    Spannungsreiche Performance auf der
    Ruhrtriennale.
    by Max Florian Kühlem
    Rheinische Post
    23 September 2013
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  • Erinnerungs-Strom (DE)
    Die Performance 'Stifters Dinge' in Duisburg
    by Edda Breski
    Allgemeiner Anzeiger
    23 September 2013
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  • Die Macht des Maschinellen (DE)
    Ruhrtriennale-Intendant Heiner Goebbels inszeniert "Stifters Dinge"
    by Martin Schrahn
    WAZ
    23 September 2013
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  • Stifters Dinge (EN)
    Heiner Goebbels’ eccentric masterpiece
    by Shirley Apthorp
    Financial Times (GB)
    23 September 2013
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  • Theater ohne Menschen (DE)
    über die Musik-Performance "Stifters Dinge" von Heiner Goebbels während der Ruhrtriennale
    by Ulrike Gondorf
    swr.de
    23 September 2013
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  • Stifters Vermächtnis (DE)
    Eine multimediale Performance von Heiner Goebbels bei der Ruhrtriennale.
    Heiner Goebbels zeigt in der Duisburger Kraftzentrale eine Installation, die auf einem Text des österreichischen Schriftstellers und Malers Adalbert Stifter beruht - eine ruhige, kluge und technisch perfekt realisierte Produktion.
    by Frieder Reininghaus
    Deutschlandfunk
    22 September 2013
  • Verloren in der Einsamkeit (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels versetzt „Stifters Dinge“ bei der Ruhrtriennale in den industriellen Kontext
    by Stefan Pieper
    NMZ Neue Musikzeitung
    22 September 2013
  • About Stifters Dinge in Moscow (RU)
    Diverse
    http://www.colta.ru/docs/17231 <http://www.colta.ru/docs/17231>
    http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts/57406.html <http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts/57406.html>
    http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2155414 <http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2155414>
    http://ptj.spb.ru/blog/nevstretit-sebe-podobnyx/ <http://ptj.spb.ru/blog/nevstretit-sebe-podobnyx/>
    http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/58831 <http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/58831>
    http://rg.ru/2013/03/25/maska.html <http://rg.ru/2013/03/25/maska.html>
    http://izvestia.ru/news/547308 <http://izvestia.ru/news/547308>
    http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2013/03/25/a_5116209.shtml
    2013
  • L’installazione-performance Stifters Dinge di Heiner Goebbels (IT)
    Un congegno estremamente affascinante
    by Anna Monteverdi
    Digital Performance
    http://www.digitalperformance.it/?p=2327
    1 June 2011
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  • Sul palco "recitano" le macchine (IT)
    Il debutto In un capannone industriale a Modena il rivoluzionario «Stifters Dinge» del compositore Goebbels. Tubi, lastre e voci governate dal computer: 70 minuti di musica senza attori
    by Enrico girardi
    Corriere della Sera
    31 May 2011
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  • L’officina sonora di Goebbels dove la luce fa cantare l’acqua (IT)
    by GIORDANO MONTECCHI
    L'Unità
    30 May 2011
    l'unita review 2011 (pdf)
  • Goebbels, suoni e visioni (IT)
    «Stifters dinge» una performance tra musica e teatro
    by Felicia Buonomo
    Gazetta di Modena
    27 May 2011
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  • Hommage an die menschenfernen Dinge (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels’ für den SWR produziertes Hörstück "Stifters Dinge" ist eine Reise in die Fremde.
    by Bettina Schulte
    Badische Zeitung
    19 November 2010
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  • Das Zischen im Walde (DE)
    Radiostück von Heiner Goebbels über den Horror bei Stifter
    by Stefan Fischer
    Süddeutsche Zeitung
    19 November 2010
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  • Stifters Dinge at the Melbourne International Arts Festival (EN)
    by Helen Begley
    Artshub - The Australian Arts Portal (AU)
    12 October 2010
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  • Stifters Dinge at the Malthouse (EN)
    4 Starts in THE AGE
    by Jessica Nicholas
    THE AGE (AU)
    http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/stifters-dinge-20101010-16dy9.html
    11 October 2010
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  • Stifters Dinge, Melbourne (EN)
    by Joshua Meggitt
    Cyclic Defrost (AU)
    11 October 2010
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  • Machines spring to life as human actors lose the plot (EN)
    by Jessica Nicholas
    THE AGE (AU)
    11 October 2010
    Review the age (pdf)
  • what the hell is goin on? (EN)
    by Penny Modra
    Three Thousand (AU)
    10 October 2010
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  • Stifters Dinge - Heiner Goebbels (EN)
    by Choe Wilson
    Beat Magazine (AU)
    9 October 2010
    beat (pdf)
  • When the stage is no place for people (EN)
    by Susan Shineberg
    THE AGE (AU)
    9 October 2010
    shineberg (pdf)
  • Nothing to it: No - plot magic in N.Y. (EN)
    Inquirer Classical Music Critic
    by David Patrick Stearns
    The Philadelphia Inquirer (US)
    19 December 2009
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  • Haunted Air Piano (sans players) on a wintry night (EN)
    MUSIC REVIEW | 'STIFTERS DINGE’
    by Anthony Tommasini
    NY Times (US)
    NY Times, December 18, 2009
    18 December 2009
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  • S h o w - B i z D i a b o l i q u e (EN)
    by Harry Rolnick
    ConcertoNet (US)
    18 December 2009
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  • Stifters Dinge (EN)
    Lincoln Center at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Great Performers New Visions Series
    by Jason Fitzgeralld
    backstage (US)
    http://www.backstage.com/bso/images/CriticsPick.jpg
    17 December 2009
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  • Heiner Goebbels / Stifters Dinge (EN)
    by Martin Bernheimer
    Financial Times (GB)
    17 December 2009
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  • Heiner Goebbels's Extravaganza (EN)
    Stifters Dinge
    by Stan Schwartz
    Village Voice (US)
    8 December 2009
    Village Voice (pdf)
  • Stifters Dinge (DE)
    Eine performative Installation von Heiner Goebbels in Dresden
    artikul:ar
    http://artikulaer.net/aktuell/goebbels.html
    1 November 2009
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  • Eine verzaubernde Waldsinfonie (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels Theaterabend "Stifters Dinge" in Hellerau
    by Alexander Keuk
    Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
    17 October 2009
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  • Un spectacle sans acteurs avec cinq pianos sans pianistes (FR)
    by Brigitte Salino
    Le Monde
    9 January 2009
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  • The year's best... (EN)
    by Tom Sutcliffe
    The Independent (GB)
    19 December 2008
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  • Stifter's Dinge (EN)
    by Andrew Clements
    The Guardian (GB)
    19 April 2008
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  • Creative Interpretation (EN)
    Innovative: Heiner Goebbels
    by Barry Millington
    Evening Standard (GB)
    16 April 2008
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  • Stifter's Dinge: who cares what it is? It's terrific (EN)
    Richard Dorment reviews Stifter's Dinge sponsored by Artangel
    by Richard Dorment
    16 April 2008
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  • When pianos attack (EN)
    What if actors stood aside and let the props steal the show? Kate Connolly on a bizarre collision of music and theatre
    by Kate Connolly
    The Guardian (GB)
    27 March 2008
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  • Geräusche, seltsam, nie vernommen (DE)
    by Wolfgang Sandner
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    29 October 2007
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  • Tra musica e teatro: i nuovi spettacoli di Goebbels e Aperghis (IT)
    by Ermes Rosina
    www.allaboutjazz.com (OA)
    15 October 2007
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  • Weite Ferne, so nah: "Stifters Dinge" von Heiner Goebbels (DE)
    by Kai Luehrs-Kaiser
    Die Welt
    12 October 2007
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  • Ein Lied in allen Dingen (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels und seine Klanginstallation »Stifters Dinge« beim Berliner Festival Spielzeit Europa
    by Claus Spahn
    Die Zeit (FR)
    11.10.2007 Nr. 42
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  • Die Entdeckung der Unschärfe (DE)
    Mit Heiner Goebbels "Stifters Dinge" wurde die Saison von spielzeiteuropa eröffnet
    by Dirk Pilz
    Berliner Zeitung
    8 October 2007
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  • Kahles Geäst (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels erforscht in Berlin "Stifters Dinge"
    by Jörg Königsdorf
    Süddeutsche Zeitung
    8 October 2007
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  • Der unaufhaltsame Gang (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels vertont in Berlin "Stifters Dinge"
    by Martin Wilkening
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    8 October 2007
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  • Stimmen der Stille (DE)
    by Volker Hagedorn
    Der Tagesspiegel
    7 October 2007
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  • Musikalische Schaltkreise. (DE)
    Wenn Heiner Goebbels Musik „ins Bild setzt“.
    by Sabine Haupt
    Neue Zürcher Zeitung (CH)
    20 September 2007
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  • Féerie pour pianos, robots et arbres (FR)
    SPECTACLE. Alchimiste de la scène, Heiner Goebbels subjugue le Théâtre de Vidy avec son dernier spectacle «Stifters Dinge». Qui parle de la beauté du monde sans acteurs, mais avec une prodigieuse installation visuelle et sonore.
    by Marie-Pierre Genecand
    Le Temps (CH)
    18 September 2007
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  • Was ein Klavier zu erzählen weiß (DE)
    Heiner Goebbels' "Stifters Dinge"
    by Hans-Jürgen Linke
    Frankfurter Rundschau
    14 September 2007
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