This is the police speaking

eine Frau und ein Mann tragen weiße Einteiler und stehen Rücken an Rücken. Sie schauen in die Kamera. Um ihre Schienbeine sind weiße große Kissen gebunden. Sie haben jeweils ein Megaphon in der Hand.

documentary theatre This is the police speaking The police embody the state’s monopoly on violence like no other institution. It is the only institution authorized to use physical coercion and to do so it can greatly interfere with the basic rights of citizens protected by the constitution. So it’s no wonder that police violence in […]

§ 218 theatreproject

documentary theater project §218 Play In the middle of Europe, in Germany of all places, there is the rigid law §218 that has been criminalizing abortion in unplanned pregnancies for over 150 years. But what exactly does this criminalization mean for the generation of our grandmothers, our mothers – and still for us? What freedoms […]

ARBEITERINNEN/ PRACUJACE KOBIETY theatre film

documentary Filmprojekt with live music Film ARBEITERINNENPRACUJĄCE KOBIETY Play Voriger Nächster Social decline looks very differently throughout Europe: in its existential threat, in the personal sentiment or the socio-political suspension. The documentary project examines how the relation between identity and work has been developing throughout three women generations in working-class families in Germany and Poland: […]

ÜBERLEBEN documentary theatre

documentary theatre ÜBERLEBEN Voriger Nächster The clinic murders that took place between 2000 – 2005 in the hospitals of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst are beyond our imagination. The number of those killed and the attempted killings is too high, the period of time during which the perpetrator acted seemingly unnoticed for many years is too long, […]

IM DORF documentary theatre

dokumentarische Inszenierung/ Langzeitrecherche Im Dorf Voriger Nächster There used to be a restaurant in every village, but today these are empty or are only used for funerals. The new production by werkgruppe2 IM DORF will be shown in restaurants along the former inner-German border in Lower Saxony and Thuringia. In it we tell the story […]

OFFENER HIMMEL documentary theatre

documentary theatre Offener Himmel Play Voriger Nächster What makes us believe? How do we pray, what do we pray for, what consoles us? What do we doubt and struggle with? Why does God leave us alone? What makes us lose our religion? The musical research theatre piece searches for a subjective religious life here and […]

DIE EHEN UNSERER ELTERN documentary theatre

documentary theatre Die Ehen unserer Eltern Voriger Nächster Open relationships, wild marriages, blameless divorces: the ’68 generation are bound by the time in which they met and learnt to love. For the first time in modern society, new models for relationships were tolerated. How did this affect their roles as parents? How freely did they […]

GYPSIES. ROMA IN EUROPA documentary theatre

documentary theatre GYPSIES. Roma in Europa Voriger Nächster “Bring your washing in, the Gypsies are coming!” It may sound like an age old prejudice but it resounds again as the EU citizens’ fears of foreign infiltration are renewed towards the largest ethnic minority in Europe (over 10 million people). Wherever Romas are based in Europe […]

DIE GEORGIER documentary theatre

documentary theatre Die Georgier Voriger Nächster In 1990, the entire Georgian Chamber orchestra migrated from Tbilisi to Ingolstadt supported by the automobile enterprise, Audi. They left the paradise which as legend has it, God had created for himself but left to the Georgian people when they missed the distribution of land to all nations. After […]

FLIEHEN & FORSCHEN documentary theatre

documentary theatre Fliehen & Forschen Voriger Nächster In Brunswick, today’s immigration politics are full of contradictions. The city is a renowned international research centre with scientists from over 40 countries. At the same time, Lower Saxony’s largest asylum centre is to be found in Brunswick – more than 1000 asylum seekers are living here with […]