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  • weißbrotmusik / white bread music


    Weißbrotmusik_2_Foto_Ursula_Hobmaier

    © Ursula Hobmair

    By Marianna Salzmann
    Theater STRAHL Berlin

    A cooperative project between bat Studiotheater and the University of the Arts,
    co-produced by THEATER STRAHL BERLIN

    Director Nick Hartnagel Set Veronika Witlandt Choreography Alfred Hartung Cast Bardo Böhlefeld, Božidar Kocevski, Claudia Lietz, Bernd Ocker Hölters, Christine Smuda Rights Verlag der Autoren

    fri april 26, 1 pm & 7 pm

    GRIPS Hansaplatz
    65 min, followed by an audience discussion
    Age: 15 upwards

    “The actors have a breathtaking presence, an authenticity made possible by the language and also by their extreme precision and humour.” (from the vote by Andrea Zagorski)

    SYNOPSIS

    “Weißbrotmusik” is the term used by Aron and Sedat to describe German bureaucracy, something which really gets on their nerves. Although they have grown up in Germany they do not feel at home here. They are always open to a new joint and ready for minor punch-ups, but one day they get news which suddenly change their life. Sedat’s girlfriend Nurit is pregnant! How should the child be brought up? To be Germany’s first “wog president”? And will their relationship survive the test of time anyway? If so, why does Nurit spend more time with Aron than with Sedat? Their repressed rage and insecurity escalate into violence which vents itself against an outside passerby. He is almost beaten to death by the two youths, and after the event nothing is the same any more.

    The prize-winning play (in 2009 the author was awarded at the “Wiener Wortstätten” for “White Bread Music” and the 2012 “Kleist-Förderpreis” for young dramatists) was inspired by a crime on the 20th of December 2007 when two youths from immigrant families attacked and critically wounded a pensioner in the Munich Underground. It takes up the debate on the connection between crime and cultural roots.

    The production is the concluding work of Nick Hartnagel. a student of theatre direction at the Ernst Busch Theatre Arts Academy, and acting students from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. In 2012 the production was awarded the Ikarus, the Berlin theatre prize for outstanding theatrical productions for young people.

     

    Weißbrotmusik_1_Foto_Ursula_Hobmaier

    © Ursula Hobmair

    Theater STRAHL (set up in 1987) is dedicated to presenting challenging theatre for young people and is continually committed to close contact with its audiences. Its shows are based on research and deal with the hopes and fears of the young. The productions are accompanied by a huge amount of comprehensive theatre-in-education work.

    www.theater-strahl.de