Dominik Breuer is a german director and author. He developed both premieres and adaptations of classical texts projects for the stage as well as concepts for public and unusual spaces, receiving several awards. 2011 he also founded the award-winning BRACHLAND-ENSEMBLE
During the following years his interest in the fields of political education, social sciences and ecology grew. Research took him to Tanzania, India, Syria, Japan and the Ukraine, among other places, and culminated in various documentary productions. He experiments with a wide variety of media and platforms and developed a growing interest in participatory methods that enable an audience to manipulate scenic processes. In 2025, he initiated the launch of pARTicipation – a Europe-wide program that uses artistic methods to counter growing populism. He presented the concept for the first time at the European Parliament in Strasbourg as part of the European Youth Event EYE 2025, commissioned by the Human Rights Action Council. A detailed CV you may findHERE.
In addition to his work as an director and author, Dominik Breuer works also as an actor, speaker and teacher for role study, voice, movement and stage combat. For more about this part of his work you may visit his other homepage and click ONSTAGE
Dominik Breuer lives in Brussels and Cologne.
The question "How is our society developing?" cannot be answered without the question "Who is involved in this development? But how can we reach different people so that they can participate with their individual skills in a way that is orientated towards the common good? How do you reach people emotionally without going down the (wrong) path of populism?
The Brachland Ensemble addresses these questions in an international Think Tank with referents from science, economy, politics, education and culture. Read More
The world holds its breath.
For the first time in history, the true nature of human rights is to be unveiled — in a ceremony broadcast across the globe. To make this miracle possible, two visionary engineers have created a walkable Human Rights Circuit: a living structure capable of both calculating the long-awaited answer and generating the power needed to transmit it. Yet there is a catch: the circuit can only come to life if, at every junction, the inner core of a human right is released and awakened. This feat demands extraordinary skills — skills the two inventors themselves do not possess. Just over one hour remains until the transmission begins — and time is running out.
BARricades is an artistic-participatory intervention in bars, cafés, and pubs with the goal of making pluralism tangible through play. The Federal Association of Socioculture and the Brachland Ensemble artists' network are training citizens in North Rhine-Westphalia and across Germany to become "game changers" who unobtrusively encourage social dialogue in their neighborhoods with specially developed games. A digital "Effective-Show" suitcase ensures sustainability and nationwide transferability.
In 2023, Belgian researcher Pierre* committed suicide. Eliza, a personalized AI chat bot that he classified as a sentient being ("ELIZA effect"), encouraged him to kill himself after he suggested sacrificing himself if Eliza would save humanity from climate change. Are we, as an emotionally vulnerable society, ready for a technology that already reaches deep into our privacy? Read More
How to deal with church spaces? How can preservation and reprogramming be found? What processes are needed to value churches and find a new use? The Brachland-Ensemble answers this question by supporting an interactive video-installation with interactive elements.
A dark and ugly evil is reaching for power in the country with unwashed claws: sinister creatures seduce people with tempting promises, cheap entertainment and completely under-complex answers to the most difficult questions. Since then, lies and forgetfulness have spread and threatened to destroy everything that once flourished so promisingly. Sent by the High Council, a group of steeled and heroic Media Magicians (they are also very attractive, by the way) set out to find the legendary Media Magica, an object of immeasurable power. Read More
Based on the Humanotop project, which was created in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University and Münster University of Applied Sciences, the Brachland ensemble developed a participatory audio walk that enables viewers to rethink the future of their city based on scientific data. In addition, an interactive online-game was created from the content to reach a wider audience. Read More
A little mind game: It's 5 past twelve. Despite all the social and ecological challenges, mankind has managed to turn the tide and get the system back on track. How could they have done it? Scientists from the future are racking their brains over this question in a laboratory. But to find the answers, they need the active support of other experts. Read More
Due to a controversial commercial and an accompanying global shitstorm, the white, male, inheriting, powerful, from an academic family, healthy, privately insured, heterosexual, Catholic, married and graduated CEO Peter decides to use the commission from an ominous client to produce a commercial to rehabilitate the image of the advertising agency. Diverse, to the point, the egg-laying wool-milk sow of the open society message.
Four groups in four different cities each control a game character and compete in a live online role-playing game against three actors from the Brachland ensemble to land the job. At any price? May the better ones win. Read More
The play is based on more than 100 interviews with members of the European Parliament in their favorite bars in Brussels. Together with the audience, the Brachland ensemble embarks on a journey: What if the power of the European Parliament was transferred to the patrons of a pub? Will they lead Europe to a better future? Or to its downfall? Either way, every decision will have a tangible impact on the evening. Read More
If your town were a single man, what would he be like? Would he be funny? Would he be healthy? Would he be old or young? What visions would he have, what did he play, what did this man laugh at? What experiences would he have had and what would have moved him? What outraged him and how did this person see the future? Read More
A gives B commands
In the course of the performance, the pleasure of commanding and the self-evident nature of obedience is intensified with a simple theatrical exercise: A gives B commands, which B immediately executes. When does the theatrical play stop and a real humiliation perhaps begin? Read More
