Balkan Express

Interdisciplinary music theater projectPerformance venue: Theater am Domhof

Theater Osnabrück takes a seat on the Balkan Express and embarks on a journey through time to the former Yugoslavia: from the utopias and myths of its founding as a non-aligned state between East and West to its disintegration into individual nation states and the four-year siege of Sarajevo. The arc is spanned with pop songs, Balkan brass bands, rock music, grand opera, symphonic music and, last but not least, poems by Bosnian poet Faruk Šehić.

What remains is a longing remembrance of a shared dream that could not withstand the upheavals of world history and internal contradictions. A musical and literary foray that travels together with dance, opera, orchestra, band and actors to a bygone country that for many still lives on as a myth.

 

Sex Education II: Fight

SLOVENSKO MLADINSKO THEATERLecture performance from Slovenia, in Slovenian with German subtitles Venue: Dekorationswerkstätten des Theater Osnabrück

Sex Education II: Fight reconstructs the struggle of women to decide freely about sexuality and reproduction in Yugoslavia. Using private biographies and political documents, a history of the Yugoslavian women's movement is told: from the possibility of safe abortion to the legalization and distribution of contraceptives. Sex Education II: Fight is a reminder of how the persistent commitment of earlier generations to physical self-determination and sexual rights paved the way for progressive ideas of love, pleasure and sexuality.

 

Going out

BARBI MARKOVIĆSerbian - German theater-dance productionShow location: Holy Poly

In 2006, Barbi Marković published a remix of Thomas Bernhard's Gehen (1970). Marković follows Bernhard's style word for word and translates it into an independent and rhythmic portrait of Belgrade club culture in the 2000s. Serbian director Tara Manić is staging a German retranslation with the Dance Company and the Schauspiel Ensemble exclusively for Spieltriebe. The text meets electronic beats in the Osnabrück techno club Holy Poly - because there are parties everywhere.

 

Get together

Theater Innenhofca. 22.15 hrs

After eventful moments in the theater, we want to end the evening together. In the inner courtyard of the theater, we invite you to share your impressions and get into conversation with the artists - music and food are a must, of course. Maybe we'll all dance together to Balkan beats on a balmy summer night.

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