Scriptings



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Achim Lengerer*Scriptings’ solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

Additionally, Lengerer has founded various collaborative projects, including the freitagsküche in Frankfurt am Main. In 2006, together with Dani Gal, he created the project voiceoverhead, which deals with archived spoken language in the form of audio performances, exhibitions, and screenings.

Achim Lengerer studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, CZ; the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, DE; and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. He completed a postgraduate programme in artistic research at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, and received a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, with a thesis on the performative format of the ‘Leseprobe’ (read-through) as an artistic model for spaces of social negotiation. He is currently head of the studio-practice and art research courses at the IKFK – Institute for Art History – Film Studies – Art Education at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Since 2009, Achim Lengerer has operated the mobile exhibition space and publishing house Scriptings, which acts as a discursive platform where various experimental ways of dealing with speech and writing are presented in collaboration with other artists, filmmakers, and authors. In addition to its films, audio pieces and performances, Scriptings also exists as a multilingual publication entitled “Political Scenarios”.

In 2017, Achim Lengerer took part in documenta 14 with the 21-hour radio work ‘different time, different place, different pitch’ (with Dani Gal), produced by Deutschlandfunk and SAVVY Contemporary.


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Kamerunerstr. 47 / 13351 Berlin / Germany
Tel. 0049 (0)30 63961810
Mobile: 0049 (0)152 5541 7858
E-mail: info@scriptings.net Near metro U6 Seestrasse or U8 Osloer Strasse
+ tramlines 13 and 50


Achim Lengerer*Scriptings solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

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The Trotsky Rehearsal/Proben zu Peter Weiss

“After a turmoil, the public dress rehearsal of the play “Trotsky in Exile” is cancelled after the first act. Two dozen protesters storm the stage and make slapstick. The cast, spontaneously formed out of all rows of the audience, begins the performance with a dance.”

The Trotsky Rehearsal/Proben zu Peter Weiss is based on Lengerer’s ongoing research about the “rehearsal” as an artistic method as well as socio-political format. In open public rehearsals that took place at Gasworks, London (other venues include district-berlin/Hebbel-am-Ufer, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol Innsbruck and many others) Lengerer presents and performes various forms of historical documents about the controversial reception of the play Trotzky in Exile (1970) by Peter Weiss. During the project at Gasworks the fragile potential of the unresolved, the unfinished, the in-the-making, which identifies the rehearsal as a format, was laid open and performed with or in front of a smaller or larger public in order to question Weiss’ differentiation between active political engagement versus the staging of topics to activate contemplation on politics: “What leads, in open ended improvisations and politically tinged happenings, to diffuse tension, emotional investment and the illusion of engagement with current events, is attentively, consciously and thoughtfully addressed in documentary theatre.”

The source materials for The Trotsky Rehearsal are presented as printed matter in various Scriptings-issues, e.g. Scriptings#34 which was printed live at Gasworks, London during the public rehearsals in summer 2013.

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