Franka Frei writes in her new book “Überfällig. Warum Verhütung auch Männersache ist.” (en. “Overdue. Why contraception is also a man’s business“) about pill policies, masculinity myths and a revolution that starts in the testicles.
Reading & talk with Franka Frei, Fritzi Wartenberg
On Saturday, 24 June at 8:15 p.m. in Werkraum of the Berliner Ensemble
The successful documentary film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay and Cem Kayas has been nominated for the German Film Award in the category “Best Documentary Film”.
After winning the German Film Critics’ Award in February, this nomination is another great success for the film, which through the music scene of Turkish guest workers tells and passionately revives the often forgotten piece of German history.
“In “Planet B”, Yael Ronen and her co-writer Itai Reicher have not solely made a drama out of the highly topical environmental theme, but rather spun a witty sci-fi comedy in the light, Ronenian twist and development style. […] Errors and confusions, in which edge and center, cause and effect, but above all all all social themes and discourses fly around in the most beautiful way and unleash truths that are stuck in hard, is what makes Ronen’s theater so bright, funny and extremely human.” – Doris Meierhenrich, Berliner Zeitung (the quote originally in German)
A not-so-distant future: climate change has continued unabated, many species have already extincted, vast land areas are barely inhabitable… A race begins to see who deserves to survive. Welcome to the alien entertainment reality show, where humans compete with chicken, panda, ant, etc. for the repopulation of the Earth as the only surviving species!
Dates & tickets under this link (external)
CRUISING MYTHOLOGY searches for queer-feminist concepts in Greek mythology and makes an attempt in transferring them into today’s life practices through performances, installations and lectures. What can we learn about plants and animals from the adventure dyke Artemis? What does the six-armed Scylla tell us about polyamorous relationships? What does the song of the sirens reveal about male fears? Varios topics and theses related to antiquity will be examined for their usefulness for the city of tomorrow.
Symposium at Schauspielhaus Hamburg
16 – 23 September 2023
Tickets are availbale from ow on under this link (external)
Podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR
with Alina Schaller, Ashwien Sankholkar, Calle Fuhr
Since 2020, the journalists of the Austrian investigative magazine DOSSIER (including Ashwien Sankholkar) have been researching the OMV group and its former CEO Rainer Seele. There was hardly any critical reporting on the billion-dollar corporation before – because OMV is one of the biggest advertising partners in the Austrian advertising business and a major sponsor. However, it is not possible to advertise in the DOSSIER magazine due to it’s ad-free policy.
That’s why the research collective decides to embark on a high-risk investigation of the OMV’s shady businesses…
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music & Podbean.
This year’s Helene Weigel Theater Prize for outstanding artistic achievements goes to the emerging director Fritzi Wartenberg. The prize is awarded by the Berliner Ensemble ehere Fritzi Wartenberg has already staged two productions – Ella Hickson’s THE WRITER and ALIAS ANASTASIUS based on a text by Matter*Verse.
The award ceremony will take place on June 16 as part of the WORX-Werkschau, following the performance of THE WRITER (starts at 5:00 p.m.) at the Neues Haus.
Furthermore, Fritzi Wartenberg sets up a staged reading KANYE WEST ODER DIE VEGANEN FRIKADELLEN VON ALDI (text: Fritzi Wartenberg) at the Berliner Ensemble/Werkraum on Saturday, June 17 at 4:00 p.m.
The last production of ALIAS ANASTASIUS can be also seen there on June 17 at 6:00 p.m.
THE TROJAN WOMEN, adapted from Euripides
In German
Direction: Lucia Bihler
Costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
For THE TROJAN WOMEN, director Lucia Bihler and her team search for a contemporary narrative method to make the ancient material about the three surviving women and their fate after the 10-year siege of Troy tangible in a sensual way. Thus, in the first part of the play, the audience becomes part of the Trojan women’s home on stage, before being able to observe the suffering of the characters from the safe distance of the auditorium.
Premiere on 28 April at 7:30 p.m.
More information & tickets unter this link.
Director and screenwriter Sueheyla Schwenk shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, presented at Berlinale Series Market 2023, produced by Studio Zentral for ZDF.
16-year-old Alva has the feeling of being different and not belonging to the world around. After moving to the countryside, she meets Esma, who doesn’t care about what others think. FEELINGS portrays teenage self-doubt and the power of friendship, hope and love.
Screenings take place on:
Fr., 14.4. at 6:00 p.m. in Acud
Sa., 15.4. at 5:45 p.m. in Babylon
Tickets under this link
Premiere on 28 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
From Calle Fuhr, in cooperation with DOSSIER
Directed by: Calle Fuhr
With THE EDITORIAL Calle Fuhr has written a Hollywood-worthy thriller: we follow a team of journalists who uncover a major scandal. Based on true events around the journalist collective DOSSIER, Calle Fuhr leads us into the machinations of the environmentally destructive corporation (OMV), which uses taxpayers’ money to support corruption, washes its hands of the matter by subsidizing high cultural institutions, and undermines the freedom of press through targeted advertising policies and bullying.