LiebDing (2025)

What actually happens to props and furniture that are waiting to be used in the theater's warehouses, corridors, and archives? Do they have a soul? Do a chair and a coat talk about their greatest moments on stage? Do they even talk to us?

We explore this question with the LiebDing app, in which various objects from the prop room become actors with whom you can interact.

When you match with a prop, you are not only writing with an object, but with the memory of the theater. Many different employees of this theater have collected their anecdotes and expertise in interviews and made them available for the project. And with the help of AI chatbots, their stories are brought to life in a surprisingly authentic way.

The LiebDing app shows how technology, sustainability, and aesthetics can come together to open up new forms of theater. It invites the audience to start a fascinating dialogue with original props and listen to previously hidden stories. Maybe you'll meet some old acquaintances again?

Here's how it works:
1. Make yourself comfortable.
2. Go to the website:https://liebding.art
3. Select a profile
4. Swipe through the characters: swiping right means “I like it,” swiping left means “I don't like it.”
5. Got a match? Start the dialogue in the chat and discover the story behind the characters.

Versuch über die nachhaltige Ordnung merkwürdiger Dinge (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.

Versuch über die nachhaltige Ordnung merkwürdiger Dinge 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.