WORKSHOPS

Participants: Maja Das Gupta, Volker Lüdecke, Mirza Metin, Wajiha Said, Ulrike Syha, Helim Yusiv

Led by Mitza Metin

Interpreter: Nihat Mert

Team: Frank Heuel, Jennifer Merten, Hicran Demir

“And then a stranger came in”
German and Kurdish theater authors

In the third nexus workshop, Kurdish and German authors will meet. In preparation of the workshop, the authors write a monologue based on the sentence “and then a strange person came in”. The resulting Kurdish monologues are translated into German and the German monologues into Kurdish. In the workshop, the authors will write new texts together and exchange ideas about the writing-process, the written and the performance of writing in a theatrical context and try out formats together.
Thematically, writing is at the center of the workshop. We are looking for expressions, topics, encounters. But the form of writing will also be part of the workshop. The fringe ensemble brings in its accumulated experiences with live-writing formats and with the interaction between authors and actors on the stage and together the multilingualism and topic of the network is further developed. What other possibilities arise in dealing with different languages, beyond the understanding of words, on stage? Which thematic references do the different authors look for each other?
The Kurdish languages and Kurdish culture were repeatedly banned in the history of the stateless people. This created a special relationship to the mother tongue. But also, in the German theater tradition the handling of language is given a high priority.

This workshop was from 26 to 28 April 2019.