Sturzträume. Schlachtbänke (2025)

‘Why shouldn't I grant the dream what at times I deny reality?’

Aus der Hand frisst der Herbst mir sein Blatt: wir sind Freunde
Wir schälen die Zeit aus den Nüssen und lehren sie gehen:
Die Zeit geht zurück in die Schale

Im Spiegel ist Sonntag,
Im Traum wird geschlafen,
der Mund redet wahr

— Paul Celan

But does dream sleep? Does her mouth speak truth? What if she can't sleep — sleepless dream — is reality for her then what nightmare is for us? One must shake it off! The dream whose story we are telling is such a ‘nightmare reality’. She is sleeplessly haunted by the story of four people whose lives have also become a nightmare for them. Something unconnected has led them to the waiting room of the ministry. Engulfed by its corridors, dragged inside, into machines, they hear the mooing of cows and the crowing of black birds. Image by image keep the dream alive, the story must be told: What do Dennis, Ingmar, Heike and Vera learn as they try to escape the corridors? And can the story end, can the dream begin to dream? Kill, steal faster, love as much as you like, you have no name, the ease with which everything happens is without measure. Everything is close, the worst material conditions are great. The forests are white or black, you never have to sleep.

Außer Kontrolle

The play "Außer Kontrolle" (English: "Out of Control") deals with the continuities of domination, oppression and rebellion. The fact that the Roaring Twenties are over, that the mute compulsions of economic relations scourges oppressors and oppressed alike, that patriarchy and capital grin together at the racists and nationalists, smiling knowingly, is sold year after year as progress in humanity, humanism and prosperity. From the reflective institutions of bourgeois states -- our beautiful theaters -- we also hear the call of the commodity: Can death be sold on stage?

And now, all of a sudden, the catastrophe has arrived?
No! The world has always been a disaster for us!

2024, 1924, 1789 is the story being told the wrong way round? Or is it just about right? Then the state of emergency becomes a real state of emergency! For those who have always known how to instrumentalize it for themselves. Now, you're done for!