Text: Sabine_ Hark / Music: Lisa Hoppe / Artistic advice, stage design: Gertrud Schrader / performer: Julian Bender, Noah Ebert Gomez, Christian Find, Petra Goldkuhle, Hanna Hacker, Marion Henkelmann, Sasha Lurje, Mila Thoma, Lor Willkomm / Stage design + costumes by students of the Master's programme in Stage Design_Scenic Space at the TU Berlin: Fan Ye, Ekaterina Tiniakova, Julie Savery, Lor Willkomm, Luise Koerber, Luise Knoppan, Mila Thoma, Runzhi Ye, Sabrina Podemski
30 Jahre Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (TU Berlin)
Im Schatten der Präsenz – Ein Konzert der Stimmen
- Dialogue
- Music
- Performance
German /
approx. 120 mins.
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at TU Berlin is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the ZIFG is staging the text cycle “Im Schatten der Präsenz” (In the Shadow of Presence) – a polyphonic, poetic project about the invisible, the disruptive, the resistant. A play that asks questions: Who is allowed to speak, who remains in the shadows, and where does presence arise precisely where it is not expected?
Eight voices and a double bass explore how memory, care and democratic coexistence can be experienced in the context of law, power and social norms. The stories deal with disenfranchisement, deviation and survival. They tell of the shadow of administration, of human dignity, of care as resistance and of tenderness as political practice – always where presence only shows itself in the spaces in between.
The project is not a linear narrative. It is a resonance chamber: a choir of the unelected, a music of interruption, an invitation to listen, even in the spaces in between, in the hidden. Where language breaks, presence becomes palpable; where the visible is absent, resistance takes effect.
The texts are based on Sabine_ Hark’s book “Gemeinschaft der Ungewählten. Umrisse eines politischen Ethos der Kohabitation” (Community of the Unchosen. Outlines of a Political Ethos of Cohabitation) (2021). They translate theory into aesthetic, musical and performative forms. “Im Schatten der Präsenz” (In the Shadow of Presence) makes visible what often remains invisible and gives a voice to those who need to be heard.
Cast
Dates
Current
Notes:
Price: 15 €, reduced 9 €
Credits
Production: Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (TU Berlin). In cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
