Tuesday, 11/5/2024
at 8:00 PM


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by Yatri Niehaus

in German with English subtitles

Because I grew up here, I dream. Whose dream?

Just because one has grown up in this order, it doesn't mean that one feels comfortable in it, that one carries it along. Right? Just because one has society in their own body, it doesn't mean that they dream the same dreams. Right?

The Afro-German protagonist of Abdruckkörper navigates his body with and against the given direction. Because the direction, the path, is marked. German society is a historically constructed, cultural labyrinth that produces visibility and exclusions, networks of relationships, and blocks of capital. Whiteness is inscribed in the societal structure. The protagonist, the I, wobbles.

The own body is the wager on the path upwards. It's going upwards, right? It is moved along the path, not voluntarily, not always consciously, it follows the path and feels the centrifugal forces, the risk of breaking out. The own body is the wager, after all, it is malleable, from the inside, from the outside. And society, is it malleable? At what cost?

Abdruckkörper is the theater debut of film director Yatri Niehaus.
The dramatic text originated during the writing workshop Unconventional Signs at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in the 2020 / 21 season. The world premiere of this text marks a unique continuity: After Schwarz Tragen (Elizabeth Blonzen, 2013), Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien (Olivia Wenzel, 2015), Jung, giftig und Schwarz (Amina Eisner, Thandi Sebe, 2015), Walking Large (Toks Körner, 2017), Call me Queen (Thandi Sebe, 2017), Aesthetics of Color (Toks Körner, 2019), Courageux! Furchtlos! (Amina Eisner and Atif Mohammed Nor Hussein, 2021), it is the eighth Afro-German drama produced and presented in the house.

Photo: Yoel Diaz

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