Concept: She She Pop / By and with: Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Barbara Gronau, Annett Gröschner, Fanni Halmburger, Alexandra Lachmann, Katharina Lorenz, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Peggy Mädler, Ilia Papatheodorou, Wenke Seemann, Berit Stumpf and Nina Tecklenburg / Performers in Berlin: Johanna Freiburg, Annett Gröschner, Alexandra Lachmann, Ilia Papatheodorou, Wenke Seemann, Nina Tecklenburg / Coordination, assistance dramaturgy, coordination and assistance: Kaja Jakstat / Set design: Sandra Fox / Costumes: Lea Søvsø / Photography: Wenke Seemann / Light design: Sven Nichterlein / Sound design: Florian Fischer / Video: Sandra Fox and Branka Pavlovic / Internship: Eilika Leibold, Anja Predeick / Production & PR: ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro / Communications: Tina Ebert / Production: Tina Ebert, Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber / Company management: Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber
She She Pop
Schubladen
- Theatre
German /
With English surtitles /
approx. 120 mins.
In “Schubladen” (Drawers), performers raised in the West and East of Germany meet on stage to share their personal stories. The result is a polyphonic chronicle of German-German history based on letters, diaries and memories. With the courage to be subjective, reunification is negotiated here as an honest relationship – full of closeness, misunderstandings and openness to new perspectives.
In “Schubladen” (Drawers), She She Pop (all of whom were raised in West Germany) meet several adversaries – in the current revival, these are Annett Gröschner, Alexandra Lachmann and Wenke Seemann – raised in the East onstage in order to open up each other’s drawers. A collective biography of the last 40 years should emerge from the personal materials of the performers.
Letters, excerpts from journals, and other personal text documents will be roughly chronologically sorted as well as literature, political texts, each performer’s internal image repertoire, and music. Night after night, the material from the lives of the 3 East-born and 3 West-born performers will be recombined, read aloud, and published. Questions about the other side must be answered as best they can. A history of the East-West German division will be told live, backed up by private and/or publically available text sources, and refereed by memories either in harmony with or contrary to the two great mid-twentieth century worldviews.
She She Pop and their Eastern colleagues search for the objective in the private. They avow polyphony, collective narration. Gaps, incommensurabilities, imprecisions, and missing links are a part of their system. Who were we? Who are we? Why have we become who we are?
In June 2025, HAU will present “Schubladen” and “Mauern” together in the programme for the first time. Both pieces will be revisited and updated for these presentations.
Cast
Dates
- Current
- Past
Credits
Production: She She Pop. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, FFT Düsseldorf and brut Wien. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Offices for Culture, Sport, and Media of the Free and Hansaetic City of Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.
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Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
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.
