ZEITENWENDE

In the organizer's words:

The Bundeswehr, anti-feminism, right-wing thinking - the new normal? Violence against bodies and against feminist utopias is omnipresent. How can we prevent ourselves from getting used to it? What happens when emancipatory demands meet the old script of masculinity and militarism?
In a time in which men are supposed to be "defensible" and Germany "fit for war" again, the performance Zeitenwende examines the complex relationships between masculinity, violence and militarization. Inspired by the thoughts of historian Klaus Theweleit, Fikri Anıl Altıntaş and Katharina Wisotzki create a picture of violence that focuses on individual and social relations of violence.
Zeitenwende tells fragmentary stories about masculinity and violence: from soldierly bodies and hierarchical masculinities to violence against women and queers. The performance is dedicated to the question of what it actually means to be a man in a world that regards male violence as normal and femicides are part of everyday life. Zeitenwende is a call for social desertion; a demand to stop accepting violent narratives and realities of life.

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş is an author and writes about masculinities, anti-feminism and the (de)construction of migrant-marked masculinities. He studied in Tübingen, Berlin and Istanbul and is an honorary #HeForShe Germany ambassador for UN Women Germany. His most recent projects and publications include BABA*, Schauspiel Hannover, 2022-23 (co-directed with Murat Dikenci) and Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum (2023) Altıntaş lives and works in Berlin.

Katharina Wisotzki is a dramaturge, festival maker and social justice & diversity trainer, and has been working organizationally and dramaturgically for various theater festivals and institutions since 2011. In 2018, Katharina Wisotzki founded the interdisciplinary feminist 13°Festival in Bremen together with Katrin Windheuser, whose 2021 edition was awarded the Women's Culture Prize of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. From March 2020 to December 2022, Katharina Wisotzki was responsible for the program of the Theater im Pavillon (Hanover) and founded the MULTITUDE Festival for feminist and intersectional solidarity. Since the 2023/24 season, Katharina Wisotzki has been Artistic Director:in der Universen at Schauspiel Hannover.

Price information:

10,00 € | reduced from 5,00 €