Kreation Kollektiv
How to make a Piece in 2 Days

It is obvious, that in places where people gather to reflect and work physically, the attention is turned on the principle of the collective intelligence. A dance festival is such a place. What is it that a group of people can bring out of itself, while an indivdual could not? The Theater im Bahnhof has many of such work processes, which they call "Kreation Kollektiv“ and uses them to face extreme challenges from outside, such as time, space and demands of financial nature.
The root concept: What comes into existence, when the whole group tells the story? Which functions, games and specialities arise from it? How can a performance be developped and organised, which is worth showing?

Society can be seen as a multi-cellular organism, with indivduals in the role of cells.
Francis Heylighen, Brussels



Ed Hauswirth
Ed Hauswirth was born in 1965. He comes from the western part of Styria (Austria) and studied History and Dramatic Theory in Vienna. He started to work as Dramatic Adviser for non-professional theatre, is a founding member of the Theater im Bahnhof (Graz) and is now the its Artistic Director. Mostly he is working as director and sometimes in different roles for free productions. Productions of the Theater im Bahnhof include: Wieder schöne Weihnachten, Europa Europa, Heisse Luft, weiters Projekte mit Rabtaldirndln, Maschek u.a.