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2022 Theater an der Ruhr

Ein Mensch wie ihr

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The history of mankind is dominated by wars and conquests, by the rise and collapse of countries and empires, by domination and oppression. That this history might have come to its end, as the political scientist Francis Fukuyama claimed in 1989 after the collapse of the USSR, has long been disproved. And yet the war in Ukraine has abruptly torn us from a beautiful dream: War in Europe! As if we had convinced ourselves for decades that the eternal dispute about the right conception of man - whether he is "good by nature", as Rousseau was convinced, or "man's wolf", as Hobbes emphasised - had been decided. Even if heated debates continue to rage among historians, anthropologists and sociologists, the findings clearly point in one direction: we have always tended to attack each other in an organised way - in other words, to wage war. The Theater an der Ruhr, the Mülheim Theatertage and the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr invite you to a joint theatre tour through the Stadthalle to "think for three minutes" - as Bertolt Brecht's "Fatzer" says - about the human species as a communal being, as an asocial being, as a war-monger and as a creature that can constructively shape the future.

In Mülheim an der Ruhr, during the time of the First World War, when all morality was stripped away, a story took place between four men that ended with the complete downfall of all four, but amid murder, perjury and depravity showed the bloody traces of a kind of new morality. Bertolt Brecht

What Brecht negotiates in the Fatzer fragment is the difference between radical self-centredness and collectivity, between spontaneity and discipline, egoism and a sense of social responsibility. This material forms the foil for very different explorations of the eternal return of war and the eternal longing to live in another world, in a pacified society. Playing, dancing, giving a thoughtful voice to people from the past and present, travelling through dark times into the unconscious, using sound installations, research, video and film, three artistic teams around the choreographer Rafaële Giovanola, the author and director Christine Umpfenbach and the director and visual artist Philipp Preuss as well as a large, diverse choir of citizens with a total of more than 60 participants together with the audience "conquer" the heart of the city and open up a new view of its spaces. The audience wanders through a theatre parcours made up of very different parts: Fatzer/Body, Fatzer/Voices, Fatzer/Times, Fatzer/Choir... And what the four war resisters around the egoist Fatzer fail, may we finally succeed together: Forming choirs. Weave bonds! Texts: Bertolt Brecht (Fatzer), Christine Umpfenbach a.o.

Further performances: 03, 04 November 7 pm In the Stadthalle Mülheim.

A project by vier.ruhr, Theatre Alliance: Mülheimer Theatertage, Ringlokschuppen, Theater an der Ruhr. Supported within the framework of NEUE WEGE by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat and und der Stiftung Mülheimer Wohnungsbau.

Participants

FRAGMENT Theatersaal Ensemble: Günther Harder, Leonhard Hugger, Fabio Menéndez, Steffen Reuber, Rupert J. Seidl, Gabriella Weber Textversion and direction: Philipp Preuss Stage: Ramallah Sara Aubrecht Costume: Eva Karobath Video: Konny Keller Dramaturgy: Helmut Schäfer Composition: Jörg Ritzenhoff Light: Jochen Jahncke, Toni Mersch Sound: Uwe Muschinksi Make-up: Suzana Schönwald Assistant director: Toby Stöttner

JEMAND OHNE UNIFORM Kammermusiksaal With: Eda Aliji, Anya Dudkina, Inge Ketzer, Sham Mousa, Jasmina Musić, Suhair Amal Omran, Berit Vander Choir: Rama Al Sayasneh, Aimée Doms, Sarah Kranenpoot, Vanessa Neutsch, Diana Zaza, Lisa Zimmermann Text and direction: Christine Umpfenbach Dramaturgy: Dijana Brnic, Philine Kleeberg Costume: Mona Kuschel Stage: Ramallah Sara Aubrecht Video: Anton Kaun Choir: Gijs Burger, Thorsten Töpp Sound: Jörg Ritzenhoff Light: Dávid Gyebrovszky Audio: Maximilian Stadler, Thomas Straub Assistant director: Lennart Wegmann

NICHT GERN ALLEIN Ruhrfoyer From and with: Léonce Noah Konan, Jonathan Sanchez, Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte, María Mercedes Flores Mujica, Wisam Atfah, Abdulrazak Balksh, Alaa Nema, Maryam Nema, Olena Polianska Choreographie in cooperation with the ensemble and concept: Rafaële Giovanola Composition: Jörg Ritzenhoff Stage: Ramallah Sara Aubrecht Costume: Fa-Hsuan Chen Light: Daniel Kaschler, Timo Löffler Sound: Jan Godde Dramaturgical consulting: Rainald Endrass Outside Eye for choreographie: Alvaro Esteban López Choreographic assistance: Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte, María Mercedes Flores Mujica

Choir Bekim Aliji, Eda Aliji, Rama Al Sayasneh, Mukerem Arifi, Wisam Atfah, Abdulrazak Balksh, Kati Beck, Ulla Christmann, Christian de Wendt, Aimée Doms, Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte, Anya Dudkina, María Mercedes Flores Mujica, Ragnhild Geck, Rafaële Giovanola, Günther Harder, Mona Hielscher, Leonhard Hugger, Joachim Huy, Margarethe Jeler, Karla Kaspers, Anja Keienburg, Harald Keienburg, Inge Ketzer, Nina Kolf, Sarah Kranenpoot, Juliane Kraus-Dorgathen, Fabio Menéndez, Sham Mousa, Jasmina Musić, Maria Neumann, Alaa Nema, Maryam Nema, Vanessa Neutsch, Léonce Konan Noah, Suhair Amal Omran, Olena Polianska, Steffen Reuber, Christophger Rupprecht, Jonathan Sanchez, Leo Leóni Schmidt, Norbert Schröter, Kugatharcini Selvaratnam, Rupert J. Seidl, Karina Sosnowski, Karola Szabó, Marina Terzan, Maja Terzan, Berit Vander, Zhen Wang, Gabriella Weber, Lennart Wegmann, Beate Wüsten, Diana Zaza, Lisa Zimmermann Musical direction: Gijs Burger Composition: Thorsten Töpp Cooperation: Lisa Zimmermann Accordion: Slavi Grigorov Coordination: Karola Szabó Childcare: Gigi Mertens "Oma Gigi"

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