Concept & performance: Antonia Baehr / Technical direction & sound design: Carola Caggiano / Dramaturgy: Lindy Annis / Dramaturgical advice: Bettina Knaup, Mayte Zimmermann / Research: Manon Haase, Laura Schilling, Sarah Tehranian / Production assistance: Nele Beinborn / Organisation: Alexandra Wellensiek / Thanks to: Cris Blanco, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Susanne Görres & team HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Eva Meyer-Keller, Constanze Schellow, Anna Wagner and team Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
Antonia Baehr
EXIT
- Performance
approx. 60 mins.
“EXIT” is the performance of the hour. It gains new relevance against the backdrop of current politics. Antonia Baehr dedicates this work from 2018 to an ever-present, but mostly overlooked phenomenon of western theatre buildings: the obligatory illuminated emergency exit signs. She makes them the stars of her lecture performance. “EXIT” takes us into a sphere between light and dark, where the green glow confronts us with the supposedly fixed oppositions of inside and outside, safety and danger or body and image. It is a dream journey through the things that theatre tries to repress and the phantasm of the Western image of humanity it has helped to create.
Based on audio messages by Lindy Annis, Frédéric Bigot, Frieder Butzmann, Carola Caggiano, Mette Edvardsen, Silvia Fanti, Neo Hülcker, André Lepecki, JMK Nicholas, Stefan Pente, Anne Quirynen, Michael Schlund, Anna Wagner and an interview with Susanne Görres.
After the performance: A get-together on the topic of Berlin culture cannot be cut
Autumn 2024 was dominated by the slogan “Kulturabbau verhindern” (“Prevent cultural cuts”). Numerous cultural workers and other Berliners took to the streets to protest against the impending cuts to the cultural budget for 2025.
This May and June, the draft for the 2026/2027 double budget will be drawn up before it is negotiated again by parliament in autumn. Savings of around 160 million euros have been announced for the cultural sector. Now is the time to come together again, to raise our voices in solidarity against the city-wide austerity plans and to convince parliament of the relevance of art and culture in Berlin.
To mark this occasion, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Antonia Baehr cordially invite you to a get-together after the performance of “EXIT” on 24 May. We would like to get into conversation together at the bar in HAU1: What can we do in this moment of negotiations to advocate for a strengthening of culture in Berlin?
Before the informal exchange, there will be statements on the current situation from Annemie Vanackere (artistic director of HAU), Antonia Baehr (artist and member of Freelance Dance Ensemble Berlin) and Janina Benduski (LAFT Berlin).
Cast
Dates
Current
Notes:
After the performance: A get-together on the topic of Berlin culture cannot be cut at the bar
Credits
Production: make up productions. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt a. M.), Theater Freiburg. Funded by: NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can be booked via the ticketing system. If you need any help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email at
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
