By: Rimini Protokoll / With: Ursula Gärtner, Xenia Klinge, Ursula_Bot / Concept, text & direction: Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel / Dramaturgy: Christiane Kühl / Scenography: Dominik Steinmann / Technical direction, light design, show system design: Joscha Eckert / Video design: Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya / Costume: Christine Ruynat / Sound design: Peter Breitenbach / Artistic collaboration: Paula Holzhauer / Internship: Milli Keil / Production management, research collaboration: Lara Fischer
Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel)
Futur4
- Theatre
German /
With English surtitles /
approx. 120 mins.
Ursula Gärtner, Transylvanian Saxon from Romania, in collaboration with a computer linguist, engages in a dialogue with AI-generated versions of herself from different decades. “Futur4” reconstructs memories, challenges assumptions, and offers audiences a dynamic exploration of human biography in its compelling vision of the future.
As a child in the 1970s, Ursula Gärtner was “ransomed” from Romania to western Germany with her family, as one of thousands of Transylvanian Saxons. With no option to return. In Romania, they were the foreign Germans; in Germany, they were somehow German Romanians.
Torn between her multiple identities, she now reflects on which of her hopes for the future have been realised and considers the kind of world she wants for her son, who is about to become a parent himself.
In collaboration with a computer linguist, she engages in a dialogue with AI-generated versions of herself from different decades. Now, 50 years into the future, her younger self converses with her real-life counterpart about migration, freedom, and belonging. “Futur4” reconstructs memories, challenges assumptions, and offers audiences a dynamic exploration of human biography in its compelling vision of the future.
Cast
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Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Rimini Apparat. Co-production: Goethe-Institut Bucharest, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Sibiu International Theatre Festival / “Radu Stanca“ National Theatre (Romania), Theater Rampe Stuttgart, Theater im Pumpenhaus. Performance rights: schaefersphilippen theatre and media GbR. Funded by: project “NARDIV – United in Narrative Diversity? Cultural (Ex-)Change and Mutual Perceptions in Eastern and Western Europe at the Threshold of the Digital Age”, financed by the programme “Horizon Europe” of the European Union, Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Kunststiftung NRW. Supported by: Akademie der Künste.
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.
