3 june 2018 – 4 july 2018 *** The theatre piece “Vor Solchen Wie Uns Haben Uns Die Eltern Immer Gewarnt” (tanja šljivar) directed by péter sanyó makes use of an auto-active music software, written by ben lauber. Premiered on june 3rd at schauspiel stuttgart. more info: www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/spielplan/vor-solchen-wie-uns/
may 2018 *** ben lauber was involved as a drummer and music editor in ralf schmerberg’s upcoming movie “Indarella”. more info: ralfschmerberg.de
7 march – 11 march 2018 *** The theater piece “Nur Utopien Sind Noch Realistisch!” of analogtheater will be performed a second time. Five days in a row from 7th till 11th of march at studiobuehne in cologne. Update: all shows are sold out. More info: analogtheater.de/wir/nur-utopien-sind-noch-realistisch/ studiobuehnekoeln.de/
7 february 2018 *** The new album of olli schulz “Scheiss Leben, Gut Erzaehlt” was just released. It was meant to be a mix-tape with a small production and for listening in a car. Eventually it’s not released on tape, but on vinyl, cd and via download, though. And the band is going on tour
13 – 14 december 2017 *** The installative performance piece Ok, Panik! appears the first time in cologne. This time as a monologue version performed by martin claussen together with music of christoph “maecki” hamann & ben lauber at fwt-koeln.
5 december 2017 *** The theater piece Nur Utopien Sind Noch Realistisch! was awarded with the koelner theaterpreis (cologne theater award) 2017 by sk stiftung kultur.
12 november 2017 *** The theater piece Nur Utopien Sind Noch Realistisch! was nominated for koelner theaterpreis (cologne theater award) 2017 by sk stiftung kultur.
1 november – 7 november 2017 *** There is a new opportunity for all the people who haven’t managed to visit the sold out tour with José gonzalez & the string theory in the last spring. Warm music for the cold days. 01 november – berlin funkhaus (de) new date added 02 november – berlin
15 october 2017 *** a late night group therapy – how web chews war at vierte welt, berlin Two recently discussed questions: How is digitization changing our world? Is everything doomed anyways? These big questions and especially the accompanied feelings expose the hard facts: the common discussion formats are no longer helpful! Schudini the sensitive
5 october 2017 *** Eterna, the most recent track of t.raumschmiere on youtube, taken from the album “pop ambient 2018”, which will be released in november 2017 on kompakt. www.raumschmiere.com www.kompakt.fm Eterna by t.raumschmiere music: marco haas, ben lauber video: kero