Die Welt der Sprachen
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| 3 EUR, reduced 1,50 EUR |
| Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Ticket bookings for the coming month are activated at the end of the previous month. |
| The entrance to Hall 3 is in the Schlüter Courtyard next to the Sculpture Hall. |
| Duration: 30 min |
| Doors open: 15 minutes before start |
| German, Italian |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
The spider man Anansi wants to capture all the knowledge in the world in a pumpkin and keep it for himself: Cooking recipes, building instructions, formulas, but also vocabulary and grammar rules. Wilhelm von Humboldt also wanted to collect vocabulary and grammar rules. But he wanted to share them with as many people as possible. He was fascinated by the different languages and learned more than 30 of them.
In two of these languages, Italian and German, Maria Carmela Marienlli and Naemi Schmidt-Laubner take their audience into the world of languages, experimenting with sounds, word chains and animal languages, telling stories about Wilhelm von Humboldt and encouraging us to preserve language as a valuable treasure.
Naemi Schmidt-Lauber studied acting in Innsbruck, Hamburg and New York. After 15 years of engagements in various theatres across Germany – including Hamburg, Göttingen, Münster, Jena – she moved to Berlin. She has performed at the Sophiensaele, the Theaterdiscounter and the HAU (Hebbel Am Ufer), conceives and realises plays and has also worked as a production manager since 2007.
She was trained as a narrator at the University of the Arts and has since performed in various contexts. In addition to the Humboldt Forum, her clients include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Museum für Völkerkunde / Japanisches Palais in Dresden, the International Literature Festival Berlin, the Labyrinth Children’s Museum, Grashüpfer Berlin and Theater unterm Dach. She tells stories in Berlin schools and libraries and initiates storytelling projects, mostly in the context of cultural education with pupils. She also directs the inclusive theatre group Die Grünen Bananen of berlinerSTARThilfe e.V., an association for the support of disabled people.
Maria Carmela Marinelli is a storyteller, theatre pedagogue (M.A.) and DaF/DaZ teacher (M.A.), trained at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is active in storytelling projects in Berlin and Saxony, performs at international storytelling festivals and leads training courses on tandem storytelling, multilingual storytelling and storytelling in foreign language teaching at the University of Leipzig, Halle and Jena. She tells stories extremely vital, suggestive, full of humour, with exuberant temperament, in German, Italian, Spanish – and when language is no longer enough, with hands, feet and a big heart until the air burns.