The borders between war and peace have become fragile. Wars are no longer declared, but simply waged. What is still a conflict, what is already a war? What is liberation, what is occupation? And what about the war within ourselves?
For over a year, four playwrights have grappled with the social conditions that make a free life a web of war in peace. Using a writing lab at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and exchange forums with civil society actors from Turkey, Israel and the Ukraine as a foundation, they investigate the role of art in times of upheaval.
In four staged readings in the Studio Я, the resulting texts are presented.
Two upheavals that consume a person at the same time, both strong enough to carry one away: a social movement that is breaking new ground, and a new love as well. When both movements begin with tenderness, but one ends in violence and terror, the other is also subjected to a seemingly endless ordeal. Author Ebru Nihan Celkan wanted to record the fact that everything had started with defending trees in Gezi Park, with a peaceful demonstration, with a party. And because the story changed daily before her eyes and with it her own life, she had to go along with a different story, with the uncontrollable – and thus also with a form that simultaneously recounts the here and now.
ATTENTAT oder Frische Blumen für Carl Ludwig
Eine humanoide Komödie
In the spring of 1815, a volcano erupts in Indonesia, causing the world's climate to cool. The advent of nativist-nationalist
thought also contributes to this darkening of the world, ideologically speaking. In 1819, the fi rst »right-wing« assassination in Germany took place, when Carl Ludwig Sand, a member of a Burschenschaft student association, stabbed poet August von Kotzebue. In Mehdi Moradpour's play, these old specters catch up with us, bigger than life, and only slightly shifted into the future: Over the course of a day in a metropolis we pursue the paths, thoughts and actions of a left-wing politician, an activist, a politically confused heckler and a humanoid radio host who no longer wants to be just voice. At a political gala, these differently armed protagonists fi nally encounter each other. And the humanoid comedy takes a course that also silences the otherwise omniscient chorus of bits of fluff.
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS LABORATORY
For over a year, four playwrights have grappled with the social conditions that make a free life a web of war in peace. Using a writing lab at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and exchange forums with civil society actors from Turkey, Israel and the Ukraine as a foundation, they investigate the role of art in times of upheaval.
In four staged readings in the Studio Я, the resulting texts are presented.
Ein Kooperationsprojekt des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin, des Maxim Gorki Theaters / Studio Я, des Neuen Instituts für Dramatisches Schreiben und der Robert Bosch Stiftung
