STAY UNITED #5 –
This is not about Putin
Lecture and talk – curated by Kathleen Morgeneyer and Valery Tscheplanova
"At the beginning of the war, I spoke to Valery Tscheplanowa on the phone. The invasion of the Russian troops into Ukraine was intangible ... From this first phone call and many others, from our mutual narration, from the horror at the brutality, from the perplexity and the silence when each was again alone in the news and images from Ukraine, the desire arose to collect texts describing this moment.
Now it sometimes seems as if we are living with this war, already accustomed to it. And sometimes it seems that the texts that were written three weeks ago no longer apply. Can we really go on living like this - with this destructive war? First there was the vision of a joint evening of Ukrainian and Russian artists. That was at the beginning of March 2022. This dialogue does not seem possible in public. So STAY UNITED #5 will be an evening with Russian and German voices. And the empty space where Ukrainian artists should be here with us remains a place of longing. Symbolically and in terms of content, however, this event is connected to the four evenings with and by Ukrainian artists at the DT and is part of the STAY UNITED series." – Kathleen Morgeneyer on this event reflecting on the Russian perspective.
Three texts by Russian citizens – a microbiologist, a theatre critic and an actress – who were willing to speak out on the war but must remain anonymous, are presented. Their positions will be complemented by three German perspectives by Milo Rau, Carl Hegemann and Johannes Reich. Following the reading, the Russian actor Jean-Michel Scherbak will talk to Sonja Zekri about the divisions that the war has caused within Russian society and families. In a second round of talks, the Ukrainian lawyer and master builder Andrej Mucha, together with Valery Tscheplanova, take a personal look from Germany, where both have lived for a long time, at the conditions in their distant homeland.
Concept and reading: Kathleen Morgeneyer and Valery Tscheplanova
Guests: Jean Michel Scherbak and Andrej Mucha
Moderation: Sonja Zekri, author and cultural correspondent, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Now it sometimes seems as if we are living with this war, already accustomed to it. And sometimes it seems that the texts that were written three weeks ago no longer apply. Can we really go on living like this - with this destructive war? First there was the vision of a joint evening of Ukrainian and Russian artists. That was at the beginning of March 2022. This dialogue does not seem possible in public. So STAY UNITED #5 will be an evening with Russian and German voices. And the empty space where Ukrainian artists should be here with us remains a place of longing. Symbolically and in terms of content, however, this event is connected to the four evenings with and by Ukrainian artists at the DT and is part of the STAY UNITED series." – Kathleen Morgeneyer on this event reflecting on the Russian perspective.
Three texts by Russian citizens – a microbiologist, a theatre critic and an actress – who were willing to speak out on the war but must remain anonymous, are presented. Their positions will be complemented by three German perspectives by Milo Rau, Carl Hegemann and Johannes Reich. Following the reading, the Russian actor Jean-Michel Scherbak will talk to Sonja Zekri about the divisions that the war has caused within Russian society and families. In a second round of talks, the Ukrainian lawyer and master builder Andrej Mucha, together with Valery Tscheplanova, take a personal look from Germany, where both have lived for a long time, at the conditions in their distant homeland.
Concept and reading: Kathleen Morgeneyer and Valery Tscheplanova
Guests: Jean Michel Scherbak and Andrej Mucha
Moderation: Sonja Zekri, author and cultural correspondent, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Reading & Talk
20 June 2022
Saal
20 June 2022
Saal
What's on
Director. René Pollesch
Deutsches Theater
20.30 - 22.00
sold out
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office
The Burrow (Der Bau)
by and with Max Simonischek
Box
20.30 - 21.30
sold out
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office