WE Я BACK! Studio Я is a young postmigrant hub for art makers from all disciplines – ’cause WE Я THE FUTUЯE! Studio Я blurs the borders between theatre, poetry, performance, concert, remembrance culture, discussion and party.
Studio Я’s FЯEMDE POESIE? series stages works of poetry by authors, who each tell, in their own way, of being foreign and trying to be heard in mainstream society. The series is launching this season with the following volumes of poetry: Yahya Hassan by Yahya Hassan and Fremd by Michel Friedman. The series continues in the season 2024/25 with Wiedergutmachungsjude by Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, I PITY THE GARDEN by Forugh Farrokhzad and blues in schwarz weiss by May Ayim.
Works from today and the recent past join together into a unique »symphony of contemporary poetry.« In all of their differences, all works share a »feeling of foreigness«, which expresses itself as an eloquent political accusation and formulates a longing for an understanding of belonging.
Poetry belongs on stage. It finds a language for that which cannot be translated. Poems come from the spoken tradition, contain oral history. These texts must be intoned, heard, experienced, lived, they must take place to unfurl the emotionality written into them. These stagings are workshop-style. They focus on the performativity of the poems and the political voices of their authors as they examine the feeling of foreigness.
FЯEMDE POESIE? is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Motif: Esra Rotthoff
Quote: Wiedergutmachungsjude
