Idea and concept: She She Pop / By and with (performed in alternating line-up): Sebastian Bark, Natasha Borenko, Johanna Freiburg, Annett Gröschner, Jahye Khoo, Alexandra Lachmann, Katharina Lorenz, Lisa Lucassen, Peggy Mädler, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Wenke Seemann, Berit Stumpf / Dramaturgy: She She Pop, Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler / Artistic Advice: Rodrigo Zorzanelli Cavalcanti / Director of Photography Video Installation: Benjamin Krieg / Video Support: Rocío Rodriguez / Sets: Sandra Fox / Costumes: Lea Søvsø / Costumes Assistance: Lilli Hillerich / Music: Maria Schneider, Max Knoth / Sound Design: Xavier Perrone / Technical Director and Light Design: Sven Nichterlein / Production: Chiara Galesi / Interns: María Giacaman, Ruth Lindner / Workshop Input: Lavinia Knop-Walling / Rehearsal Interpretation (German/Korean): Eunsoon Jung / Simultaneous English Live Translation: PANTHEA / Anna Johannsen / Audio description: Pingpong Translation & Subtitling / Martina Reuter, Johanna Krins / PR, Communication: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture / Freelance Communication Support: Tina Ebert / Financial Administration: Aminata Oelßner / Company Management: Elke Weber
She She Pop
Mauern
- Theatre
German /
approx. 100 min.
In “Walls”, She She Pop and guests search for visions of the future beyond social fractures. Between documentary material and speculative fantasy, the stage becomes a time capsule for collective imagination.
In “Schubladen” (Drawers), (2012) She She Pop members sat across from some of their East German contemporaries. “Drawers” explored the systemic conditions that forged their identities, showing two strong ideologies and opposing doctrines each with their inner logic. Their self-images, however, have not survived the past ten years and the myths of where they came from already lay in ruins. Can a common future even be built on the baggage of the past, the failed utopias of their parents’ generation and the abuse and injustice of the past 30 years?
Against the backdrop of present times, which are marked by isolation and destruction, She She Pop opens the stage to search for collective visions of the future and what stands in their way. As a mental extension of “Drawers,” She She Pop have once again invited various guests to share the stage or be connected virtually in their production “Mauern” (Walls) (2022). Together, they travel through time to past moments and possible futures. In doing so, they try to form a community that surpasses linguistic or physical barriers, which are outside the range of solidarity or imagination or even brutally defined by visa requirements. Whereas the stage was still a place of uncomfortable clashes in “Drawers,” here it is turned into a neoliberal co-working space or dark padded cell used as a think tank. The journey takes the audience along walls that permeate how we perceive shared reality and its emotional impact. She She Pop and guests sift through the rubble of documentary material and combine it with futuristic camera technology to turn the stage into a time capsule. Women travel in it to uninhabitable or deserted scenarios to speculate on or live in other forms of the present and possible futures. Fantasy or the possibility of fiction emerges as a precious commodity. It is a dimension that is difficult to reach and can only be attained together with a special effort of doubt, fear, insolence, humour and clairvoyance.
In June 2025, HAU will present “Drawers” and “Walls” together in the programme for the first time. Both pieces will be updated for these presentations.
Cast
Dates
Past
Notes:
15., 16. + 17.6.: German with English live translation
Credits
Production: She She Pop. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), Schauspiel Leipzig. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. Supported by: Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
Special thanks to the photographers and archivists who have provided photographic material from their artistic works: Arwed Messmer, with works from the series “Anonyme Mitte, Anonymous heart, Berlin”, Nuremberg 2010, and “Inventarisierung der Macht. Die Berliner Mauer aus anderer Sicht”. By Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer, Berlin 2016; Robert Polidori, with works from the series “Zones of Exclusion PRIPRYAT AND CHERNOBYL”; Andreas Rost, Courtesy Collection Regard, Berlin, with works from the series “Das Jahr 1990 freilegen”, “Wahlgang”, “Mauern Ramallah” and “Der unbekannte Oscar Niemeyer in Algiers”; Wenke Seemann, with works from the series “and the moon is a blind eye” und “ARCHIVDIALOGE #1 – Bauplan Zukunft”; Benjamin Krieg with works from his archive. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture.
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.
