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March 15th 2018

It is time to celebrate! Our Theater Machine (Theaterautomat) performed for the 250th time! This happened last week during the festival Wir sind die Zukunft in the Schaubude in Berlin. Brian, our 250th audience member, let us use his picture (it's all consensual here) to say thank you to all the people who has supported us these 1,5 years. So. Thank you :)

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January 22nd 2018

Yes, I am pretty excited.  And happy. And nervous. And restless. And all at the same time and some more.  My zine “35 days with my belly” is now out and you can find it here.

I have to admit that I am really moved by the fact that queer trash distro has released my first zine, as I really like the aesthetics, topics, politics and diy character of their zines. If you don’t know queer trash distro, and you are curious, have a look here.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has supported this project, especially to Simo, Eirini, Basti, Polyxeni, Franky, Danai, Felix and Margret.

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December 12th 2017

The year is almost over.

A text of mine about huge king prawns and body image will be on the radio tonight! At 19h on 88.4fm. Thanks to Women Writing Lab.

Another premiere, this time in Indonesia: my saw and violin music in the documentary "All is forgiven for we have been happy"  about the poet Leon Agusta. Made by Katia Engel, Paul Agusta and Faozan Rizal. That's also where the image comes from. Here the trailer.



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October 29th 2017

Last month has been busy.
I improvised music live for Impro-visionen in the SCHAUBUDE
our film Shut up! was selected by a festival in the netherlands
I have been preparing a zine, which is on its way to the world
I played in Fritz-Wortelmann-Preis with the Theaterautomat
my text was published on women writing Berlin lab
I renovated a room in 10 days
I worked in a theater piece that I had been part of 9 years ago
I worked for a small publishing company
I went to the theater, to the cinema, to a big party
I celebrated the birthdays of 2 lovely people
I read an amazing book by Melissa Broder
I have been working on a friend's website
I spend a very intensive time with 2 friends.
I traveled to Colone and Bochum and back to Berlin.

Now I feel a bit like this.



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picture: Ibou
August 31st 2017

As I try to update this site so that it looks ok on smart phones, I am re-reading my texts of this blog. And I have just realized, I am describing everything in a very common way: big experiences, new places, lovely people, great shows. Happiness. The people who don't know me would think I am the happiest person on the planet. Well, I am not. It is not a lie what I am writing, but still, I am not. And I thought it is also good to write once when I am not that happy. Maybe it is also cool to write, that it took me five hours only to update the blog page, so that it looks ok on a smart phone. I am not even sure if someone reads this shit, but it is still important for me that it looks ok on a smart phone. Not because I am passionate about smart phones. In fact, I hate smart phones. But because I am a perfectionist. And it is exactly for this reason, I am writing today. Because I am a perfectionist but not perfect at all. Here I am in the middle of the night writing instead of going to bed. Good night.

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picture: Ann Hamilton
July 13th 2017

BE Festival was once more a big new experience.
Tante & Tante worked for the very first time with an external person.
This was the greatest DANIEL GOLDMAN!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And we won an award: the Champ Libre Award.
This means, we have to pack our suitcases and go aaaaall the way to France for a 2-week residency and a performance in the international Champ Libre Festival!

Apart from that
I made some new friends
met some old friends
attended great workshops
saw a new perspective of the city with Ben Waddington
and did some acrobatics and animal dancing with Quim Girón
I saw a lot of good performances
I had sleepless nights
and long intensive days.

Now, back home again, I am very busy digesting all these.

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July 2nd 2017

Here we are.
This is our space.
In the big theater in Birmingham.
Long days and short nights.
And the most amazing rehearsal space
I have ever been.
2 days before the festival starts.
5 days till our performance.

(picture by Warren Garland)

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June 20th 2017

PAF is over.
2 hot days in the technical room of Sophiensaele
32 people in our theatre machine
7 bottles of sparkling water
5 grilled king prawns
1 traffic jam
and one nice article
thank you. it was great.

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June 14th 2017

We play in Berlin again!
Reserve your slot an come round
to experience a 10-minute performance in a box!

Find all details here.

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June 8th 2017

I have just discovered a documentation of the festival Babel im Park I took part a couple of weeks ago in Hildesheim. Thank you everyone for a great time!

Here the video by Robert Opermann.

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May 20th 2017

The TETRAPAK album is finally out! A project which has been cooking for quite a long time. Listen to the playful songs and find me singing (in Greek) about throwing rubbish away and being sick of phone calls.
Listen to the whole album
here.
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April 17th 2017

Tante & Tante are trying to float together again
like on the photo taken almost 25 years ago
preparing our new piece for BE Festival
is an invaluable experience
keep being together
and being apart
riding waves
facing the camera with distrust
and with the security
that even if the world falls apart
they will still float together

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Apris 1st 2017

It's DoDo's birthday!
You can still listen to the album
here
And you can find a new old unpublished video
about a weird encounter of a nurse and a hare
here

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March 5th 2017

My postcards are now in the amazing bookstore LeseGlück.
And still in the great Gute Seite.

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January 17th 2017

The first selfies in Leipzig!
Come and see the eye in the Theatre Machine in the Festival Expeditionen!

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January 4th 2017

Horray! The year began with a present!
Our Theaterautomat is in the Zitty Top10 Theatre Productions of 2016!

find the article here:
Top10 Theater Authors 2016

and something to listen to:
(while reading the article)

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December 1st 2016

Breaking news!
My mini-postcards with my language mistakes (Meine Sprachfehler) have found a new home!
In the amazing bookstore in Neukölln Die Gute Seite!
I am happy.

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November 21st 2016

We did it! And got some very good feedback!
PRAGMATA's first big project is there!
Some extracts of the reviews here:

The Theatre Machine is a beautiful performance that goes a step further: there are no performers, no people on stage, there are just mechanical devices. (…)
A form of mechanical theatre (…) that asks a question about the role of people in an environment full of robots.
Holger Zimmer, RBB Kulturradio, Saturday 29.10.2016 | 08:10
 
In the magical Theatre Machine of PRAGMATA (…) you dive with the head inside a miniature stage. (…) During the performance you ask yourself while shivering what is going to happen in the autonomous house where the digital assistants are going to take over.
Tom Mustroph, Neues Deutschland, Berlin 2016-November-1st, p.14

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September 24th 2016

PRAGMATA
(Angelina Kartsaki & Sebastian Schlemminger)
are very excited
about their Premiere
of their new experiment
called "DER THEATERAUTOMAT"
in the Schaubude Berlin
starting on October 28th

lasting for 7 days

more information:
here
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July 26th 2016

So I did my first Meine Sprachfehler installation. And it was in a really beautiful place. I hope the two lamas didn't hate me for using the wall of their home to hang my pictures.

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July 16th 2016

I forgot to tell you something important: Tante & Tante were in Birmingham last month as a part of BE Festival. There, they met a lot of lovely new people, 2 cats, a turtle, they watched 21 performances, they experienced Brexit and they WON A PRIZE!

Now they are speechless.

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April 1st 2016

DoDo is 1 year old!

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March 27th 2016

Tante & Tante while planning their summer vacation.

January 19th 2016

Athens Voice wrote  about my album. In a secret language. They say it is a special album about "unorthodox reality". I think I liked this comment. And I also liked the article. A lot. So if you can read the secret language, here you go.

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4th of October 2015

Heute hier und morgen dort. Und so weiter und so fort.
On the 24th my films in London.
On the 30th  with  Miriam Sachs, Leo Solter and my trumpet in Lichtenberg Museum.

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15th of August 2015

We made it!

Me and Sebastian Schlemmiger have been thinking about this project for a long time and now it came to reality: our Hör-Buch!

When you see it in the bookcase, you think it is a normal book, but when you open it you can rest your head on a soft pillow and listen to stories. (Well. We have built speakers inside, but it is actually a secret.) There is also a USB port, through which you can load more stories or music or even charge it if the battery is low.

Thanks a lot to our friend Maria Agiomyrgiannaki for the great pictures!
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30th of June 2015   

A bit before my real summer begins, a nice surprise arrived: a review about my album. As you could possibly expect, it is written in a language that many of my friends don't understand. That's why, here a translation  of bits and pieces:


"playfully idiosyncratic"
"frank, sober and revealing"
"immediate and accessible"
"a form that consists in stripping down the sound by drawing on the psychology of play"
(Fontas Troussas, lifo)

and some links:
the review
the album
the music videos

ahoi.

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1st of April 2015

AAAAAAAA!
My first solo album is out now!
I am excited, happy, anxious, grateful, relieved and so much more.

You can listen to it online or download it for free
or you can even buy a limited handmade edition, here:
DoDo, electric appliances & other animals
you can also find all lyrics in english and german.

enjoy spring!

ps. and don't forget this
(DoDo is going to be there)

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22nd of February 2015

the past
breath in
tante und tante are very happy having performed in chisenhale
many friends from different countries came and watched
their absurd domestic drama
and they booked a new show- they are going to perform in athens in april
now they pack their suitcases full with plaid toothbrushes
and paper stomachs

the present
working like crazy for the production of DoDo's
first music album
frist long music video
first handmade CD
first do-it-all-yourself-but-really-yourself production
well-with-a-lot-of-help-by-other-people-but-still-
I-am-the-one-to-take-decisions
why should DoDo do all these first things right now?
it is a bit exhausting
performing for the video for the production of kafka fragments in athens
organising a soli performance in berlin on the 21.3. - save the date!
breathing in between

the future
some facts in march:
soli performative concert/ musical performance in the rue bunte
Fytini, the album will be released
TEΤΡΑΠΑΚ live for the first time
some facts in april:
all my projects meet in athens in sound acts:
tante und tante, oiseaux bizzares, DoDo
DoDo album will be released!
breath out

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15th of December 2014

Dear friends in Athens,
you have plans on Saturday!
Because I am sure you don't want to miss the following:
a presentation of a book of a great friend and artist
a film by my sister
a film by a friend, where I take part
a night full of suprises

more infos (in greek) here

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12th of December 2014

THE FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF TANTE UND TANTE!
IN LONDON ON FEBRUARY.

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18th of November 2014

So many new things.
A spontaneous trip.
Four different cities.
Two different countries.
A new project.
Two new videos.
A new blog.
I am excited.
And exhausted.

ΤΕΤΡΑΠΑΚ, τηλέφωνο
Tante und Tante: the death of a prick
Tante und Tante, the blog

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22nd of Oktober 2014

the new aunties video is
hier

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24th of September 2014

c o m i n g   s o o n
for the very last time

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4th of September 2014

This summer is over.
This summer I was a happy bear.
This summer I danced in isolated places.
And sang. And played the violin. For my friends "Ta troktika".
This is their song "intestines' little summer".

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6th of July 2014

This week I had a mysterious guest.
We rode bikes without breaks,
we painted a room white,
we went to an experimental concert and fall asleep,
we ate a spaghetti called noodles,
and
we made two auntie-videos.

You can find them here, if you are curious enough:
Tombola und Tante
Tantenparty


that's all folks.
buy.
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Hello.
Here is some unsorted information about me:

I like making small animals out of paper.
I like hoodies, jumping up and down, flirting with different sounds. 
I like doing many things at the same time.
I like doing nothing for a long time.
I like yellow food.

I like complaining about the weather. 
I like touching the forbidden things in the museum.
I like cheesecake.
I like coincidences.
I like nonsense.

Now you know me a bit better. Or you think so.





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