Die Sumpfgeborene (Heinersdorf)
Matthaei & Konsorten
Side Specific Performance

16.09. - 20.09.2020 urban spaces in and around Berlin

TRAILER

Berlin has long been built on quagmire. Therefore, it is not surprising that some structures of today's Berlin have their blueprints in the baroque era - the allegedly grand old times, whose facades are being restored in a way that creates dramatic effects. matthaei & konsorten devote themselves to the humid, sweltering delirium of that epoch. On an expedition into the mucky city, they invite their audience to the remote, exaggerated, hardly beautiful sides of Berlin: How about dancing a sarabande on the sewage fields below the border zone? Or to crack the Mäusebunker with rhetorical rams? In September, matthaei & konsorten launch their new work Die Sumpfgeborene (The Swamp-Born) with wondrous actions in the city, before finally premiering in November. There the shameless affects and magnificent stagings of social abysses will be crossed with the unstoppable narrative apparatus of the telenovela.

Credits
by and with: Klaus Janek, Milena Kipfmüller, Jörg Lukas Matthaei, Adrian Navarro, André Nittel, Bati Nehoya, Volker Sobottke, Anne Welenc Direction: Jörg Lukas Matthaei 
Dramaturgy: Milena Kipfmüller 
Musical Direction/ Composition: Klaus Janek 
Scenography/ Costumes: Michael Graessner 
Production Management: Sarah Stührenberg 
Artistic Contribution: Sofie Neu 
Additional Scenography Contribution: Lotti Maurer 
Technical Director: Chris Umney 
Documentation: Florian Krauss 
Photography: Merlin Nadj-Torma

A production by matthaei & konsorten in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE and with friendly support of Theater Thikwa. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europa and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.

Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung