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- Theater Strahl Berlin
- STRAHL.Halle Ostkreuz
#BerlinBerlin
A play about walls and people
World Premiere 13th March 18
"Every wall is a tragedy.
Every wall falls.
A wall stands and falls.
A wall falls down and rises up again.
A wall stumbles, falls and rises up again.
A wall is funny.
A wall that stands and doesn't fall is not funny.
A wall that you stumble over is funny.
A wall that makes you fall is tragic."
For Ingo, the Berlin Wall is anything but a "blink of an eye in history". Born in 1961 on the day the Wall was built, the "Anti-fascist Protection Wall" will overshadow his entire life in East Berlin. He is waiting in vain for his father, who now lives with his new family in West Berlin. His mother is silent and bottles things up, while his home country continues to wall itself in. But when staying there is no longer an option for Ingo and he is finally allowed to leave, legally and with official permission, the 9th November 1989 happens and suddenly the border is open anyway.
Using a collaborative writing process, four playwrights from East and West, born before and after the fall of the Wall, have created a play about life in a divided city. A family story that remembers Berlin, a city that still has two parts and a history that is not yet over.
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Web
- www.theater-strahl.de/en/plays http://www.theater-strahl.de/en/plays/
Staff
- Direction
- Jörg Steinberg
- Music
- Wolfgang Böhmer
- Dramaturgy
- Holger Kuhla
- Costume
- Stephanie Dorn
- Assistant Director
- Janina Reinsbach
- Theatre pedagogy
- Caroline Schließmann
- Stage
- Fred Pommerehn
Cast
- Actor
- Beate Fischer
- Oliver Moritz
- Justus Verdenhalven
- Nora Decker
- Sabrina Frank
- Sven Scheele
Author / Composer
- Author
- Sina Ahlers
- Uta Bierbaum
- Günter Jankowiak
- Jörg Steinberg
Supporting program
GEHEN ODER BLEIBEN
Auf den Spuren der Berliner Mauer gestern, heute und morgen
Das Begleitprogramm zum Theaterstück #BerlinBerlin ist eine Kooperation von Theater Strahl Berlin und der Stiftung Berliner Mauer. Ergänzend zum Besuch des Theaterstücks #BerlinBerlin können Sie Bildungsangebote in der Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer und der Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde buchen.
Press text
“Und das bestens aufgelegte Ensemble […] sorgt dafür, dass die gut zwei Stunden wie im Flug vergehen. Für Schulklassen ein lustvolles Muss, aber auch unbedingt empfehlenswert für Familien, wobei die Großeltern mitkommen sollten, um hinterher zu erzählen, wie sie die Mauerzeit empfunden haben. […] Diese Inszenierung hat das Zeug zum Kultstück.”
Stefan Kirschner, Berliner Morgenpost
“Das Jugendstück „#BerlinBerlin“ im Theater Strahl erzählt plattitüdenfrei und vergnüglich vom Aufwachsen im geteilten Deutschland.”
Patrick Wildermann, Tagesspiegel
