Mauern
She She Pop
Ten years ago, She She Pop sat opposite contemporaries from the former GDR in “Schubladen”. They negotiated the systemic conditions that had produced their so-called identities: two strong ideologies, two opposing doctrines that were coherent in themselves. Against the backdrop of a present characterized by isolation and destruction, She She Pop open the stage for a collective search for visions of the future and what stands in their way. As an intellectual continuation of “Schubladen”, which was performed at HELLERAU in November 2019 at the “89/19” festival, She She Pop have also invited various guests for “Mauern”, who share the stage with them or are connected virtually. Together, they travel through time between moments of the past and possible futures. In doing so, they try their hand at community building across various borders: language, physical and solidarity borders, borders of the imagination and even tough visa borders.
The stage has been transformed into a neoliberal co-working space, a dark padded cell used as a think tank. The journey leads along walls that permeate the perception and emotional imprint of the shared reality. Starting from a mountain of rubble made of documentary material, the stage becomes a time capsule with the help of future-evoking camera technology, in which the women travel to places that have become uninhabitable or to emptied scenarios in order to speculate about other presents and futures or to inhabit them.
Duration: ca. 1 h 40 min
Languages: German, English, Korean, Russian
She She Pop is a Berlin-based feminist performance collective that deals with current issues with reference to their own biographies and always creates a very lively stage atmosphere by involving the audience. The group is one of the most prominent and influential in the German theater scene, has received many awards and successfully tours its plays internationally.
Idea and Concept: She She Pop
By and with (played in a changing line-up): Sebastian Bark, Natasha Borenko, Johanna Freiburg, Annett Gröschner, Jahye Khoo, Alexandra Lachmann, Katharina Lorenz, Lisa Lucassen, Peggy Mädler, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Wenke Seemann, Berit Stumpf
Dramaturgy: She She Pop, Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler
Artistic Collaboration: Rodrigo Zorzanelli Cavalcanti
Director of Photography Video Installation: Benjamin Krieg
Video Collaboration: Rocío Rodriguez
Stage: Sandra Fox
Costume: Lea Søvsø
Costume Collaboration: Lili Hillerich
Music: Max Knoth mit Maria Schneider
Sound: Xavier Perrone
Technical Management and light: Sven Nichterlein
Production Management: Chiara Galesi
Intern: María Giacaman, Ruth Lindner
Workshop Input: Lavinia Knop-Walling
Rehearsal translation (German/Korean): Eunsoon Jung
Englisch Live Translation: PANTHEA / Anna Johannsen
Audio Description: Pingpong Translation & Subtitling / Martina Reuter, Johanna Krins
PR, Communication: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Freelance work Communication: Tina Ebert
Financial administration: Aminata Oelßner
Company Management: Elke Weber.
A production by She She Pop in co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, FFT Düsseldorf, Schauspiel Leipzig, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts.
With the support of: Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte
The guest performance is supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states.
