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Angela (a strange loop)
In the last few years, the entire world underwent an intense experience of vulnerability and transience. Now, post-pandemic society is struggling to reassess its relationship with sickness and death. With the multimedia theatre production “Angela (a...
While History Writes Itself
How does one living in exile authentically convey the experience of flight and emigration? This is the underlying question of the writing workshop “While History Writes Itself”. The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin has invited dramatists and playwrights...
Gezi – 10 Years after
On 28 May 2012 the first protesters gathered at Gezi Park near Taksim Square to demonstrate against a planned construction project. Soon the “Occupy Gezi” camp hunkered down in the park, took over Taksim Square and united a broad array of divergent...
New Tales from the Forest
The forest has been viewed symbolically and aesthetically as the epitome of nature ever since Romanticism. Its historical mythologisation as a place of longing where we can find harmony with nature and ourselves has now become one of concern about...
Simone Fattal
War, flight, trauma and loss of identity are themes which Simone Fattal (*1942 in Damascus) explores in her ceramic sculptures, collages and books. Damascus, Beirut, Paris and San Francisco are the places which have shaped her nomadic biography. In...
Weaving Histories
The mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is widely regarded as a pioneer of computer programming. She recognised the potential of the punched cards in the Jacquard looms and transferred the system (hole/no hole) into a code of ones and zeroes – the...
The Invention of Sitting
In its new climate-neutral production “The Invention of Sitting”; the Theater der Jungen Welt of Leipzig wishes to explore what sitting in the future may look like and what it has to do with the climate. Funded by the Zero Fund of the German Federal...
Melodrama Suits Her
With the dance performance “Melodrama Suits Her – A revenge evening” at the HAU in Berlin, the dancer and choreographer Tümay Kılınçel takes a stand against the “male gaze”. Funded by the Zero Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Moby Dick
With its interdisciplinary play “Moby Dick – A reflection under climbing temperatures”, the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern aims to produce climate-neutral theatre as well as initiate a debate on the issue of sustainability and environmental destruction....
Fifty Degrees of Now
The theatre project “Fifty Degrees of Now” at the Stadttheater Giessen uses themes from Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel “The Ministry for the Future” as a foil to consider how internal processes at the theatre can be conducted in a more...