Das Beckwerk

"In the year of 2001, the author, playwright, performer, musician and human being Claus Beck-Nielsen, was declared dead. In 2002 Das Beckværk, a theatre and arts house, was opened in his name to govern and develop the life and work of Beck-Nielsen. The company had it's headquarter in a former reactor on the outskirts of Copenhagen. But in 2006 the name was changed to Das Beckwerk, now a trans-national corporation with the globalized world stage as its target and audience."

"Through staging of world politics, public spaces and media, Das Beckwerk seeks to establish an active link between the individual world citizen and the contemporary world history. In this way Das Beckwerk creates stories about the hopeless, but necessary attempt to daily intervene in world history. Stories that can take shape as walks, serial photography, novels, performances, concerts, installations, video, historic events and guided museum tours. Stories about the common man and his heroic, yet naive attempt to gain influence on the creation of world history."

"Among the most important litterary products of Das Beckwerk are the biography "Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963-2001)" (2003), the novels "The Suicide Mission" (2005) and "The Sovereign" (2008). Since 2006 Das Beckwerk has functioned as a nomadic Reactor-In-Residence. As such Das Beckwerk was part of the Wiener Festwochen in 2007 and has lately resided at Theatre Camp X in Copenhagen."

”Claus Beck-Nielsen är outstanding. Han spelar på så många strängar, på det självbiografiska, på det politiska dagsläget, på gränsen mellan fiktion och verklighet.” (Jenny Högström, Göteborgs-Posten om Självmordsaktionen, på svenska 2007)

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