PAUL // Performance by Siegmar Schröder
In this lecture / performance, we open up an alternate view of a very special father-child relationship. Siegmar Schröder – artist and father – reflects in his very own way what living with a child from the other star means. In the performance, the perspectives and elements mix – sometimes documentary theater, sometimes drama and…
A BIG PLAYER // Solo Performance by Thomas Behrend (2018)
Short in height, self-pitying, premature, depressed, hypocritical, ready for war, sociopathic, in other words, the caricature of an evil man. Thomas Behrend, one of the first generation of Theaterlabor, shows in his solo that such a character is again very topical. The abstruse logic, with which it is argued again and again, now seems almost…
NO. 2 // absurdesque (2017)
The world is out of joint – it haunts hugely on the stages of this world. Zombie figures, an absurd theater panopticon emerged, play their role probably for the thousandth time. Their gestures are stolen, their stories are wrong, their monologues rotate in a continuous loop. But what is fake and what is real? Does…
STRAIGHTEN YOURSELF, HEART (2016)
Announcements about a disturbed country / A Scenic Contribution to the Human Rights Situation in Mexico / “If only one patch of this world could be called paradise, then it would have to be Mexico …” (Alexander v. Humboldt) A paradise where people disappear for many years. A paradise in which the state apparatus is…
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (2016)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with the appearance of the old poet Gower, who takes the audience on a journey full of danger, love and suffering. Perikles knows about the ineffable mystery of the tyrant Antiochus and thus endangers not only himself, but also his people. During his escape he marries the princess Thaisa, who…
JOHN UND JOE (2015)
John and Joe are two men who meet almost every day in a cafe. They sit together and yet each for himself and even the most simple conversation holds pitfalls. Each word is an attempt to pretend, one would have something to say. So each meeting becomes a ritual and is marked by the force…
SCHLACHTER-TANGO (2010)
The Bielefeld Ludwig M. is 1936 arrested for homosexuality by the Gestapo. As a Jew, he survived Buchenwald and Auschwitz. After the war, he has to fight for the recognition of his persecution as a Jew. In the ’50s, on the edge of legality, he opened the first gay bar in Hannover. In nightmarish and…
BIOS – BESONDERE VORKOMMNISSE (2010)
The old doll carriage, the home of the grandparents, the crumpled diary – these are things that appear simple, behind which great stories are hidden. Pause and sit down to tell, and listening – these are the seemingly simple, but vital needs, which we neglect too often. At the invitation of a private host experience…
DIE ALTE // nach Daniil Charms (2001)
„So weit haben sie es gebracht. Ich habe Angst vor dem Leben. Kein Mensch sollte sich vor seinem Leben fürchten.“ (Daniil Charms, 1939) Auch der Schriftsteller in Daniil Charms Stück „Die Alte“ fürchtet sich. Wer ist die namenlose alte Frau, die in sein Zimmer eingedrungen ist, um dort zu sterben? Mit der Unbekannten schleicht sich…