program

Do 01.06.

10:00

Bühne II

from 4 years

Keren Levi

Drunter und Drüber

Tanz

Drunter und drüber is a story about friendship and the power of fantasy.Two friends discover a treasure map during a pillow fight. It leads them into a fantastic world. A wondrous, adventurous treasure hunt unfolds before the audience’s eyes, without any spoken language.


19:30

miu

do white ex

animated reading in three languages with a Papersound Ensemble
Scenic Reading

In collaboration with three dancers, miu has developed a scenic lecture that forms the fifth instalment within his “Ex” series: A landscape of acoustic, literary, and choreographic elements. miu invites the audience to a shared journey based on the examination of in_visibility, therein creating a language that involves visually impaired people.


Fr 02.06.

10:00

Bühne II

from 4 years

Keren Levi

Drunter und Drüber

Tanz

Drunter und drüber is a story about friendship and the power of fantasy.Two friends discover a treasure map during a pillow fight. It leads them into a fantastic world. A wondrous, adventurous treasure hunt unfolds before the audience’s eyes, without any spoken language.


Sa 03.06.

15:00

Bühne II

from 4 years

Keren Levi

Drunter und Drüber

Tanz

Drunter und drüber is a story about friendship and the power of fantasy.Two friends discover a treasure map during a pillow fight. It leads them into a fantastic world. A wondrous, adventurous treasure hunt unfolds before the audience’s eyes, without any spoken language.


17:00

Hauke Heumann & Jan Lemitz

EXPOSED GREEN – THE CITY’S STONY VALLEYS AND GREEN HILLS

as part of RE-IMAGINING PUBLIC LIFE
Urban Walk

The 20th century built using exposed concrete, the 21st century builds exposed greens. Hauke Heumann and Jan Lemitz have developed an urban walk that confronts text and imagery with specific locales in urban space.


So 04.06.

11:00

Hauke Heumann & Jan Lemitz

EXPOSED GREEN – THE CITY’S STONY VALLEYS AND GREEN HILLS

as part of RE-IMAGINING PUBLIC LIFE
Urban Walk

The 20th century built using exposed concrete, the 21st century builds exposed greens. Hauke Heumann and Jan Lemitz have developed an urban walk that confronts text and imagery with specific locales in urban space.


14:00

Table Talk on the Transformation of Cities and the Public Sphere

as part of RE-IMAGINING PUBLIC LIFE
Discussion

The table talk gathers artists, scientists, and protagonists from architecture and urban development to discuss current transformations in the relation between cities and the public sphere.


Di 06.06.

16:00

Rotterdam Presenta

The Studio: Baustellengespräche (THE STUDIO: CONSTRUCTION SITE TALKS)

Talk

Over the coming months, a group of performance artists, architects, musicians, and engineers from the Rotterdam Presenta performance platform context will construct a new stage in a former garage. The participants will ask themselves, the audience, and outside experts: What should this space look like that determines our gathering?


18:00

FFT & Friends

Bar Night +

Get-Together

The FFT Foyer is not only a splendid space to wait for the start of a theatre performance. Starting now, you can also use it to simply meet people here for a drink, gather with friends, letting your day wind down. In May, and by way of exception, we will invite you to the bar on the second Tuesday of the month.


Do 08.06.

20:00

Müller / Gurrola / Diallo / Selimović

JUSTITIA! IDENTITY CASES

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Court drama

Can it be an advantage to belong to a group that faces discrimination? For some jobs and subsidies, yes. But matters become heated when people from the majority community claim to be part of a group facing discrimination. Is that a case for the courts? Or the online pillory? And what is at stake in the theatre? Four activists discuss these questions in a fast-paced show about the relationship between theatre, court and social media.


Fr 09.06.

11:00

FFT & Kompliz*innen (FFT & Accomplices)

KULTUR-FRÜHSTÜCK (Cultural Breakfast)

Talk

Welcome to the Cultural Breakfast at the FFT Düsseldorf. This free offer is for everyone who wants to take a look behind the scenes of independent theater and talk about it with others! Every 2nd Friday of the month we invite you to our foyer to meet artists and other guests, current topics and new plays.


19:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


19:00

Theater im Bahnhof

DUDES HALTEN ENDLICH DIE KLAPPE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Generational Theatre

Finally – a play about old white men! Featuring two examples of the species and two twelve-year-old girls. Only this time the usual order of things has been reversed. The girls say what’s what and the dudes keep their mouths shut.


20:30

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Nadja Duesterberg im Rahmen von HAUS/DOMA von subbotnik

EXPECT A TIGER

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

Within the dark space stands a brightly lit kitchen with a long table in front of it for the audience. On the menu: four courses together with stories about the hard work in the kitchens of top restaurants. How can the evening be made unforgettable and everyone’s efforts be recognised in equal measure?


21:00

caruso + avila

MI VIDA EN TRÁNSITO

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

‘MI VIDA EN TRÁNSITO’ documents an involuntary return to Argentina and the distress that follows. caruso + avila mould this into an affectionate dialogue about depression and hope that bridges thousands of kilometres of separation and the borderline between the real and the virtual.


Sa 10.06.

16:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


18:00

Theater im Bahnhof

DUDES HALTEN ENDLICH DIE KLAPPE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Generational Theatre

Finally – a play about old white men! Featuring two examples of the species and two twelve-year-old girls. Only this time the usual order of things has been reversed. The girls say what’s what and the dudes keep their mouths shut.


18:00

caruso + avila

MI VIDA EN TRÁNSITO

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

‘MI VIDA EN TRÁNSITO’ documents an involuntary return to Argentina and the distress that follows. caruso + avila mould this into an affectionate dialogue about depression and hope that bridges thousands of kilometres of separation and the borderline between the real and the virtual.


19:30

Boris Nikitin

MAGDA TOFFLER. Versuch über das Schweigen

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

Boris Nikitin’s grandmother came from a Jewish family but kept this secret to herself until she died. Her grandson goes in search for the origins of silence. A captivatingly simple and direct monologue.


21:00

Müller / Gurrola / Diallo / Selimović

JUSTITIA! IDENTITY CASES

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Court drama

Can it be an advantage to belong to a group that faces discrimination? For some jobs and subsidies, yes. But matters become heated when people from the majority community claim to be part of a group facing discrimination. Is that a case for the courts? Or the online pillory? And what is at stake in the theatre? Four activists discuss these questions in a fast-paced show about the relationship between theatre, court and social media.


So 11.06.

12:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


20:00

8Tiger_1.9.1__Atacan AK_ subbotnik.jpg Ort wird bei Anmeldung bekannt gegeben
Nadja Duesterberg im Rahmen von HAUS/DOMA von subbotnik

EXPECT A TIGER

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

Within the dark space stands a brightly lit kitchen with a long table in front of it for the audience. On the menu: four courses together with stories about the hard work in the kitchens of top restaurants. How can the evening be made unforgettable and everyone’s efforts be recognised in equal measure?


Mo 12.06.

19:00

8Tiger_1.9.1__Atacan AK_ subbotnik.jpg Ort wird bei Anmeldung bekannt gegeben
Nadja Duesterberg im Rahmen von HAUS/DOMA von subbotnik

EXPECT A TIGER

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

Within the dark space stands a brightly lit kitchen with a long table in front of it for the audience. On the menu: four courses together with stories about the hard work in the kitchens of top restaurants. How can the evening be made unforgettable and everyone’s efforts be recognised in equal measure?


Di 13.06.

19:00

Henrike Iglesias

FLAMES TO DUST

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Grief performance

Inspired by the Death Positive movement and based on their own experiences, the collective Henrike Iglesias has created a show about mortality and grief from a consciously young perspective. With two performers and the audience’s telephones in the leading roles.


21:00

Henrike Iglesias

FLAMES TO DUST

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Grief performance

Inspired by the Death Positive movement and based on their own experiences, the collective Henrike Iglesias has created a show about mortality and grief from a consciously young perspective. With two performers and the audience’s telephones in the leading roles.


Mi 14.06.

17:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


19:00

Henrike Iglesias

FLAMES TO DUST

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Grief performance

Inspired by the Death Positive movement and based on their own experiences, the collective Henrike Iglesias has created a show about mortality and grief from a consciously young perspective. With two performers and the audience’s telephones in the leading roles.


21:00

Henrike Iglesias

FLAMES TO DUST

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Grief performance

Inspired by the Death Positive movement and based on their own experiences, the collective Henrike Iglesias has created a show about mortality and grief from a consciously young perspective. With two performers and the audience’s telephones in the leading roles.


Do 15.06.

18:30

Absent.e pour le moment

VIELLEICHT

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Postcolonial Documentation Theatre

Street names form a collective history. Cédric Djedje and Safi Martin Yé report on the 40-year struggle to re-name three streets in Berlin’s “African Quarter”. Video interviews with activists, stories of historic events and personal experiences coalesce into a clear political message.


21:00

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Jan Philipp Stange & Company

SZENARIO

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023

The most important genre of contemporary art is the funding application. In ‘SZENARIO’, this becomes the absurd book for a musical. Four forestry workers in a snowy landscape sing about “activities to achieve their objectives,” their “budget for funding and costs” and their individual struggles with work, poverty and personal fulfilment.


Fr 16.06.

18:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


18:30

Absent.e pour le moment

VIELLEICHT

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Postcolonial Documentation Theatre

Street names form a collective history. Cédric Djedje and Safi Martin Yé report on the 40-year struggle to re-name three streets in Berlin’s “African Quarter”. Video interviews with activists, stories of historic events and personal experiences coalesce into a clear political message.


20:00

Oliver Zahn

STEINERNE GÄSTE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Performance

On stage the artist can be seen with an empty podium. Orphaned plinths like this are the subject of ‘STEINERNE GÄSTE’ which is concerned with the afterlife of toppled statues – after they have fallen, are they genuinely gone? A production that shifts between a sober lecture and bombastic opera music.


21:00

Nicoleta Esinencu

SINFONIE DES FORTSCHRITTS

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Speech concert

Picking cucumbers, delivering packages, cleaning bloody abattoirs – three performers tell of people from Eastern Europe working in the West under degrading conditions. Repurposed jigsaws and cordless drills create the carpet of sound for this spoken concert.


Sa 17.06.

17:00

03_FIGAGE©AndreasBolm.jpeg K20, Grabbesaal
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

FIGURING AGE

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Installation

A touching evocation of ghosts: using video recordings and precise impersonations created by the young choreographer, three dancers who have passed away are brought back to life – and with them their moving life stories reflecting the freedom of modern dance and the oppression of 20th century ideologies.


18:30

Absent.e pour le moment

VIELLEICHT

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023
Postcolonial Documentation Theatre

Street names form a collective history. Cédric Djedje and Safi Martin Yé report on the 40-year struggle to re-name three streets in Berlin’s “African Quarter”. Video interviews with activists, stories of historic events and personal experiences coalesce into a clear political message.


21:00

szenario_300dpi_janphilippstange_(c) christian schuller-2 Kopie.jpg Central / D’haus
Jan Philipp Stange & Company

SZENARIO

as part of IMPULSE THEATER FESTIVAL 2023

The most important genre of contemporary art is the funding application. In ‘SZENARIO’, this becomes the absurd book for a musical. Four forestry workers in a snowy landscape sing about “activities to achieve their objectives,” their “budget for funding and costs” and their individual struggles with work, poverty and personal fulfilment.


Mi 21.06.

20:00

Ulrike Haage, Veronika Bachfischer, Klaudia Ruschkowski

ETEL ADNAN: THERE. HIER / DORT

Literary musical performance

‘There’ is a prose poem by Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and painter Etel Adnan (1925 – 2021). Written in 1997, during the Yugoslav Wars, it deals with conflict between individuals, societies, and genders. Musician and composer Ulrike Haage transforms Etel Adnan’s poem into an open musical-tonal fabric in the here and now of thinking and speaking, live ‘at, in, and under’ the grand piano and in dialogue with an actress.


Do 22.06.

20:00

Ulrike Haage, Veronika Bachfischer, Klaudia Ruschkowski

ETEL ADNAN: THERE. HIER / DORT

Literary musical performance

‘There’ is a prose poem by Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and painter Etel Adnan (1925 – 2021). Written in 1997, during the Yugoslav Wars, it deals with conflict between individuals, societies, and genders. Musician and composer Ulrike Haage transforms Etel Adnan’s poem into an open musical-tonal fabric in the here and now of thinking and speaking, live ‘at, in, and under’ the grand piano and in dialogue with an actress.