STERN 111

In the organizer's words:

Just a few hours after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989, Carl, a young man, witnesses his family, which he thought was safe, being blown apart. Suddenly, even the beloved family radio - the Stern 111 - belongs to an old, bygone life. Carl's parents Inge and Walter flee to the West with only a few belongings. On their way through emergency reception camps and to various transit stations, they are apparently pursuing a long-cherished dream that even Carl knows nothing about. He dreams of becoming a poet and goes to East Berlin. Here he experiences a time full of anarchy, unimagined freedom and wild creativity. As a trained bricklayer, he becomes part of a group of people who, in a kind of guerrilla struggle, take over empty houses and open a basement pub. Their attempt is to offer an alternative to capitalism, which threatens to change everything with all its might. While Inge and Walter want to deny or shed their East German identity, Carl gradually finds what and who he wants to be. He even gets to the bottom of his parents' riddle and begins to suspect what the star 111 stands for in their lives.

This evening of theater based on motifs from the great poetic novel by Lutz Seiler, published in 2020, opens up a captivating space of memory from Carl's perspective. His images are detailed and touching, sometimes associative and fragmentary. And there is this very special sound of radical upheaval and seemingly unlimited possibilities at the beginning of the 1990s.