The Team Behind the Scenes

the team

02. Different working fields

04. Technical direction

05. Stage equipment

06. Statistician

07. Conclusion

08. Thanks

Index

03. Lighting

01. Berliner Ensemble

"THE BERLINER ENSEMBLE IS PERHAPS THIS CITY’S MOST CONSISTENTLY EXCITING PLAYHOUSE,

The New York Times

• 1949: founded

by Berthold Brecht and Helene Weigl

• 1954: moved to the theatre on Schiffbauerdamm

Berliner Ensemble

Address:

info

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Bertolt-Brecht Platz 1 · 10117 Berlin

• at the ticket office
• online

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Lighting

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Head of the lighting team

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Developing lighting concepts for shows

-> working with the set designer, the director and the technical director

• Technical, financial and personnel realisation of the concepts
  

Head of the lighting staff

Lighting

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Lighting operations manager

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Programming the devices
• Supervisioning the procedure of the light show

Lighting

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Gaffer

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Setting up, operating and maintaining the technical lighting systems and devices

• Checking tor correct functionality

-> subordinate to the lighting operations manager

Lighting

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Technician and assembler of the equipment

Lighting technician / Best Boy

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Lighting equipment

• Knowing all headlights and wiring

Technical direction

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Technical director

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Instructing employees

• All technical- organisational processes
• Planning and testing of stage design ideas

-> In cooperation with director and stage designer

-> Technical and financial feasibility

Coordinates and manages the stage technology

Technical direction

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Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Production implementation
• All decisions regarding the control of the technical productions

Technical production manager

ALSO

multiple assistants, gatekeepers and one secretary

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Stage equipment

Head of the entire stage staff

Stage manager

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• In charge of technical operations on and behind the stage
• Checking stage machinery
• Props and conversions

• Technical realisation of artistic conceptions and designs

Stage equipment

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Stage technicians

Responsibilities (e.g.):

• Production of stage sets according to plans
• Setting-up and dismantling sets

-> compliance with safety regulations

• Operation of the overhead and below-stage machinery

ALSO

• House own craftsmen
• Transport & Logistics of the equipment

Statistician

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Calculates the statics

House own statistician

Conclusion

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-> varying number of

Any questions?

Thanks for your attention

Sources

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https://www.woltering-group.de/berechnung-und-statik/#iLightbox[Prototyp]/1

... of information