FundusFantasma (2026)

The audience enters a place that only insiders know: the theater's mysterious prop room. But it's not just old costumes and props that are stored here—the ghosts of theater history live on here! Every object, every piece of fabric, every dusty prop carries memories. But what happens to them when the final curtain falls?

With every door that opens, a new encounter begins: a worn rehearsal costume considers itself the biggest star on stage and raves about its glory days. Spiritual chairs philosophize about what lies beyond the theater roof. An orphaned prop whispers of a forgotten play that was never performed.

FundusFantasma is an immersive odyssey behind the scenes, where the boundaries between reality and staging dissolve. The production highlights two central themes of our time: sustainability and digitalization. The unique collection of the Theater Gießen becomes a living stage: here, objects and costumes tell their stories and manifest the “ghosts” of past productions.

team

Nina Maria Stemberger

is a performance artist, choreographer, theater and dance educator. She cofounded the performance company ArtesMobiles. In her work, she repeatedly asks herself how art in public space can be an integral part of the development of future perspectives and how it can be shaped.

further projects: FlyingDrinks, BehindWalls, SpeculativeAI, *JU.PI.TER*, MagicDrink, LaBodega, SquareLand

artesmobiles.art

Birk Schmithuesen

is a media artist. His work is shown internationally at key media art festivals in France, Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Germany, including re:publica, Chaos Communication Congress, Ars Electronica Festival and ZKM. Birk Schmithüsen is co-founder of ArtesMobiles and FlashClash. For collaborations with the performing arts, he produces interactive audiovisual environments using generative sound design, multi-channel sound, lighting design, video projection mapping and motion tracking.
The performers can interact with the immersive sceneries and the audience is diving into.

further projects: FlyingDrinks, BehindWalls, SpeculativeAI, *JU.PI.TER*, MagicDrink, LaBodega, SquareLand

birkschmithuesen.com

flashclash.de

soundcloud.com/birk-music

Anna Maddalena Cingi

(set and object design) is an Italian designer and tinkerer who has been working in the fields of theatre, opera and multimedia performance since 2014, focusing on storytelling through space and on the expressive use of clutter, texture, and materiality.
She won Premio Tragos in 2019. She currently lives
Milan and Berlin.

https://annacingi.com/