IN CONCERT The world is burning – not a bad time for political art could be a cynical response. But can we really write to counter the present? How can stories help design a better future? What scripts characterize writing in the 21st century – beyond their origins and affiliations? gegen sätze (contra dictions) is the discourse and literary programme from Studio . With these three events, the second half of the season focuses on the presentation of new literature in relation to today's conflict zones: Olga Grjasnowa's new novel Gott ist nicht schüchtern (God is not shy) tells of Amal and Hammoudi. Young, beautiful and privileged, they believe in the revolution in Syria. However, two years later, the actress Amal finds herself on the ocean where she saves a baby because the cargo ship on which she was to be smuggled to Europe has sunk. The physician Hammoudi has just secured a job at the best hospital in Paris. But he also loses everything when he goes to Damascus to take care of the final formalities. When they meet in Berlin, they have to start all over again. Mehmet Ateşçi and Lea Draeger read excerpts and Barbara Wahlster talks with the author about her new novel.
27/MAI
VANISHING NIGHT
RECORD RELEASE KONZERT Paul Brody's Sadawi mit Special-Guest Jelena Kuljić Kreativer Berliner Indie-Jazz, ausgezeichnet mit dem Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritrik
4/JUNI
THE FAVORITE GAME
Kuratiert von Daniel Kahn und Deniz Utlu The Prosa der Verhältnisse (Prose of Relations) series regularly presents new post-migrant and marginalized voices. In the sixth edition, curator Deniz Utlu conducts a discussion with Yavuz Ekinci, a young novelist from Turkey. In his new work The day when a man came from Mount Amar, Ekinci describes the final 24 hours in a Kurdish village before it's evacuated by the Turkish military. A conversation about the – also geographical – boundaries of a novel in times of global interweaving and destruction.
Texte von Leonard Cohen, musikalisch untermalt von Daniel Kahn & friends. Special Guests: Conspiracy of Beards – ein Chor bärtiger Männer aus San Francisco. Hallelujah!
The theatre program from the New York-based Sundance Institute is organising an eleven-day academy in Berlin for the support of Syrian playwrights who have been living in Europe since 2011. Sundance Syria supports artists in the creation of new contemporary drama in both standard Arabic and Arabic dialects. Actors from the Maxim Gorki Theatre's newly-founded Exil Ensemble will read works-in-progress created through the program. Join us and discover both new Arabic plays and extraordinary theatre artists.
SPIELZEIT 16/17 MÄRZ–JULI
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