Autor*innenwettbewerb Teil II

In the organizer's words:

Readings / Author competition / Sönmez/Pfeiffer/Federer

13:30 "16GB: Table Tennis Table Politics" by Zehra Sönmez / 14:30 "A Child's Play" by Sean Pfeiffer / 16:00 "Asia Weeks" by Yannic Han Biao Federer

The readings will take place in Zwinger 3. They will also be livestreamed and shown on video after the events.

"16GB: Table tennis table politics"
The table tennis table. Not a green club table with rounded corners for casual ping-pong, but concrete and hard edges. For twins Ceren and Andaç, "a place to come together. The coming together of our feelings, pain, joy". This is where the first music videos were shot, hot wheels were spectacularly burned, letters of apology were written, discussions were held and not conceded, reconciliation and celebrations took place. This is where criticism of the system is negotiated and structures are questioned. Zehra Sönmez holds up a mirror to society - and not least the theater and culture industry - in a clear, direct and unyielding manner and questions the actual experience of the proclaimed "we" in the shadow of white majority narratives and concealed discrimination.

"A child's play"
Ede and Len find themselves in the remains of an apartment. Destruction and death around them. Ede no longer has eyes, blood is seeping from both their bodies. They try to take stock: "Are the books still there?" / "There are pages." A soldier puts an end to Len's life. Time passes. And Vat, Mut and Kin emerge, move into the destroyed room, perform the normality of a small family life, eat, speak. But Ede is still present, visible only to Kin. The experienced horror of war remains in the rooms, remains tangible as trauma, slowly seeps into the family's perception. Ede and the language remain. Painful, wounded, unredeemed.

"Asia Weeks"
Student teacher Vanessa despairs of the German education system's blind spots when it comes to colonial history. At the same time, she is desperate to get behind the stories of history: the trauma behind her father's silence and the measure of the collective guilt of living in the 21st century West. Everyone around her is overwhelmed by her obsession. But Vanessa can't help herself. For her, everything is connected: colonialism with National Socialism, the BND and Adenauer's fear of a powerful Asia with the coup against Indonesia's first president, the subsequent pogroms and mass murders. In his play, Yannic Han Biao Federer poses the question: How can the repressed, the unspeakable be made consumable?