2015–2018
Cooperations: Theater and Literature
In order to network the perspectives of 100 Years of Now with debates from the German speaking world, cooperations have been established with theatres and literary institutions throughout Germany and Switzerland.
In order to network the perspectives of 100 Years of Now with debates from the German speaking world, cooperations have been established with theatres and literary institutions throughout Germany and Switzerland.
The start will be made with Peter Handke’s play Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten, staged by Tiit Ojasoo und Ene-Liis Semper at the Thalia Theater Hamburg. Written in 1991, and consisting solely of stage directions, the play illuminates contemporary Europe and its historical condition. Through the meeting of different characters, an image of a continent is created which has been shaped by 100 years of national, religious and economic attempts at establishing an identity. For the opening of 100 Years of Now at the HKW the theatre performance The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other – An Observation of Time has been created on the basis of the original play.
This will be followed by a cooperation with the theatre HAU Hebbel am Ufer at the end of 2016 as well as a co-production with the theatre collective Rimini Protokoll, at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, the Kammerspiele Munich, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
In the series of readings Tatort: Schlachtfeld well-known actors and actresses such as Barbara Auer, Nicole Heesters, Dominique Horwitz, Charly Hübner, and Ulrich Tukur bring to life the First World War in literary form – a war that occupied the artists and literati of its time like no other. In 16 readings across the country between October 2015 and June 2016, they will lend their voices to European and non-European poets and intellectuals, war opponents and enthusiasts, doubters and those dragged into events from 1914 to 1918. In the concluding discussions with politicians, historians and other experts the positions of the time will be juxtaposed with current debates. For the kick-off to 100 Years of Now at the HKW, Burghart Klaußner and Ulrich Matthes read from diaries, letters and novels, followed by a discussion between the Member of the German Bundestag Rüdiger Kruse and the Freiburg historian Jörn Leonhard.
“Tatort: Schlachtfeld” is curated by Sonja Valentin.
“Tatort: Schlachtfeld” takes place as part of the HKW series 100 Years of Now.
