Off Europa 2023 – main program in English
Ausreise
14th of May // 7 p.m. // Leipzig // Westflügel // Theatre // freies ensemble p&s Panel buildings made of cardboard, records, photos and slides, a jar of preserves, a wind-up Trabi, sounds of keyboard and trumpet. Tom Wolter and Niklas Stelbrink create a life in miniature, a kind of memory landscape, shaped by things and stories that seem far away. A life in which one finds his way and narrates, while the other is more of a stranger, listening and reacting. Memories and reflections, softly zoomed in. Performed in German.
BODY – signature of (y)our life #2
15th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // LOFFT // Theatre // Teresa Stelzer Performer Teresa Stelzer is searching for ways to uncover the memories of her body. She looks back on ideals that her stage body has found for itself over the course of time: after intensive involvement with pantomime it is the precision and the tendency towards the puristic, according to Butoh it is the tension, which arises from the simultaneity of opposites, according to Feldenkrais it is the awareness of how the body is to be used in its individual parts. The notes of other bodies add up to this reflection, inspiring, confusing, annoying or tender notes.
HeimatLost
15th of May // 9 p.m. // Leipzig // LOFFT // Performance // Çağlar Yiğitoğulları What constitutes „home“ when the ground beneath your feet starts to move? When you want to leave or have to leave, when you live in exile, in a limbo between new beginnings and foreignness, between state/nation and cosmopolitanism. A performance, equally associative and surreal, physically extremely intense, with musical, narrative, autobiographical elements. Performed in English + German.
Vor deinen Augen verbeuge ich mich (+ Mein Mykolaivka)
16th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // die naTo // film and talk // Georg Genoux + Anastasia Tarkhanova In 2018, director Georg Genoux and set designer Anastasia Tarkhanova began traveling through Saxony for their project „The Land I Do Not Know.“, conducting hundreds of interviews. With people who lost their sense of work and life after 1989, with young people who feel like third-class Germans. But also with refugees who are in the process of building a new life. Their theater project brought people together who otherwise would never have met. Films and conversation in German.
Spiritual Boyfriends
17th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // LOFFT // performance, dance // Núria Guiu Sagarra Where does the increasing obsession with being beautiful, with health and perfection come from? What connects discipline and intoxication? An evening of theater about the relation between outward appearances and power structures – against the background of spirituality and yoga. „Spiritual Boyfriends“ is a complexly conceived and intensely performed solo work depicting a body-world relationship that has gotten out of hand. A physical battle of material, a colorful media overkill; the dazzling and at the same time enervating presentation of an exhibitionistic excess. Performed in English.
Vor deinen Augen verbeuge ich mich (+ Mein Mykolaivka)
17th of May // 8 p.m. // Dresden // Filmgalerie Phase IV // film and talk // Georg Genoux + Anastasia Tarkhanova In 2018, director Georg Genoux and set designer Anastasia Tarkhanova began traveling through Saxony for their project „The Land I Do Not Know.“, conducting hundreds of interviews. With people who lost their sense of work and life after 1989, with young people who feel like third-class Germans. But also with refugees who are in the process of building a new life. Their theater project brought people together who otherwise would never have met. Films and conversation in German.
HeimatLost
17th of May // 8 p.m. // Chemnitz // Off Bühne Komplex // Performance // Çağlar Yiğitoğulları What constitutes „home“ when the ground beneath your feet starts to move? When you want to leave or have to leave, when you live in exile, in a limbo between new beginnings and foreignness, between state/nation and cosmopolitanism. A performance, equally associative and surreal, physically extremely intense, with musical, narrative, autobiographical elements. Performed in English + German.
Die Stanz in Grenzland
18th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // Schauspielhaus, Diskothek // theatre // Albrecht Hirche On stage, two simple minds. He, the shy village idiot who got her pregnant at 19. The parents settled the matter between themselves, his family paid hush money. The boy they share is a so-called problem child, the woman a fighter. She says sentences like „I like to fuck.“ But she also wants to talk sometimes, wants to get away from where she is, doesn’t want to be dependent. Then the events overturn. Performed in German.
… da / sein…
18th of May // 6 p.m. // Dresden // …da / sein… // walk, history, dance // Katja Erfurth A dance-like-artistic tour following buried traces of history and stories through Dresden’s Neustadt. The dancer Katja Erfurth, the singer Julia Böhme and the violinist Florian Mayer relate past and present in short episodes at selected locations and resurrect no longer existing urban spaces for brief moments. No language barrier.
Vor deinen Augen verbeuge ich mich (+ Mein Mykolaivka)
18th of May // 8 p.m. // Chemnitz // Off Bühne Komplex // film and talk // Georg Genoux + Anastasia Tarkhanova In 2018, director Georg Genoux and set designer Anastasia Tarkhanova began traveling through Saxony for their project „The Land I Do Not Know.“, conducting hundreds of interviews. With people who lost their sense of work and life after 1989, with young people who feel like third-class Germans. But also with refugees who are in the process of building a new life. Their theater project brought people together who otherwise would never have met. Films and conversation in German.
Wir kriegen euch alle!
19th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // Wir kriegen Euch Alle! // Theatre Music Performance // Diana Wesser, Juliane Meckert, Hans Narva + Ensemble Five East German men on stage: musicians, punks. They tell of non-conformity and resistance, of jail and oblivion, of elation and experienced violence, of fears and powerlessness. This is definitely not a feel-good evening, it comes out of the past gloomy, not very conciliatory, in parts traumatic – and above all it is not (n)ostalgic. Inevitably, its shadows also fall on today, with all its polarization and reflexivity. Performed in German.
… da / sein…
19th of May // 6 p.m. // Dresden // …da / sein… // walk, history, dance // Katja Erfurth A dance-like-artistic tour following buried traces of history and stories through Dresden’s Neustadt. The dancer Katja Erfurth, the singer Julia Böhme and the violinist Florian Mayer relate past and present in short episodes at selected locations and resurrect no longer existing urban spaces for brief moments. No language barrier.
HeimatLost
19th of May // 8 p.m. // Dresden // Projekttheater // Performance // Çağlar Yiğitoğulları What constitutes „home“ when the ground beneath your feet starts to move? When you want to leave or have to leave, when you live in exile, in a limbo between new beginnings and foreignness, between state/nation and cosmopolitanism. A performance, equally associative and surreal, physically extremely intense, with musical, narrative, autobiographical elements. Performed in English + German.
Ausreise
19th of May // 8 p.m. // Chemnitz // Kraftwerk // Theatre // freies ensemble p&s Panel buildings made of cardboard, records, photos and slides, a jar of preserves, a wind-up Trabi, sounds of keyboard and trumpet. Tom Wolter and Niklas Stelbrink create a life in miniature, a kind of memory landscape, shaped by things and stories that seem far away. A life in which one finds his way and narrates, while the other is more of a stranger, listening and reacting. Memories and reflections, softly zoomed in. Performed in German.
Rummelplatz
20th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // Rummelplatz // Theatre // Fritz Theater Rummelplatz, a novel by Hallensian author Werner Bräunig, who died at an early age, published posthumously in 2007, is about young people seeking a new life after the collapse of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. The Fritz Theater in Chemnitz developed a version that tells of the hard work of extracting raw materials from the native soil, accompanied by a ruthless destruction of the natural environment. And it discovers moments of equality and female emancipation in Bräunig’s approach to a supposedly male theme. Performed in German.
… da / sein…
20th of May // 6 p.m. // Dresden // …da / sein… // walk, history, dance // Katja Erfurth A dance-like-artistic tour following buried traces of history and stories through Dresden’s Neustadt. The dancer Katja Erfurth, the singer Julia Böhme and the violinist Florian Mayer relate past and present in short episodes at selected locations and resurrect no longer existing urban spaces for brief moments. No language barrier.
Heimat los
20th of May // 6 p.m. // Chemnitz // Heimat los // poetry concert // Gabriele Stötzer + Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar (EFIM) / Duo Klangzeichen The Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar (EFIM) gave its first concert with works by Karlheinz Stockhausen on February 13, 1981 in the private Erfurt »Galerie im Flur« directed by Gabriele Stötzer, which was dissolved by the Stasi on April 1, 1981.
Since 2009, the artist and author has been creating joint programs with the group, in which new texts are presented as a »word-sound performance«.
Stand Up (For Your Rights)
20th of May // 8 p.m. // Chemnitz // Stand Up (For Your Rights) // Comedy Documentary Theatre Performance // Jana Shostak „People rarely joke about the revolution in Belarus, which has been going on since August 2020. As a Belarusian living in Poland, initiating anti-Lukashenko protests and supporting aid organizations for the persecuted, I have tears in my eyes more often than a smile on my lips. An inner perspective, however, prompts me to use satire and black humor. In my artistic naiveté, I came up with stand-up to put this kind of cultural eclecticism into a performance.“ Performed in English.
… da / sein…
21th of May // 6 p.m. // Dresden // …da / sein… // walk, history, dance // Katja Erfurth A dance-like-artistic tour following buried traces of history and stories through Dresden’s Neustadt. The dancer Katja Erfurth, the singer Julia Böhme and the violinist Florian Mayer relate past and present in short episodes at selected locations and resurrect no longer existing urban spaces for brief moments. No language barrier.
Stand Up (For Your Rights)
21th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // Stand Up (For Your Rights) // Comedy Documentary Theatre Performance // Jana Shostak „People rarely joke about the revolution in Belarus, which has been going on since August 2020. As a Belarusian living in Poland, initiating anti-Lukashenko protests and supporting aid organizations for the persecuted, I have tears in my eyes more often than a smile on my lips. An inner perspective, however, prompts me to use satire and black humor. In my artistic naiveté, I came up with stand-up to put this kind of cultural eclecticism into a performance.“ Performed in English.
Der Morgen kann warten
21th of May // 7 p.m. // Chemnitz // Der Morgen kann warten // Shadow theatre // Susi Claus + Peter Müller / Theater Handgemenge On stage, implied, a nursing home. And an elderly man who does not want to sleep. He is afraid that if he were to close his eyes and fall asleep, his soul might leave his body. Mr. Petermann doesn’t want to say goodbye yet, he still wants to experience something. And so he embarks on a nocturnal journey. „What if we simply listened to the elderly and empathically accompanied them on their (final) journeys?“ Performed in German.
