“Why is there no poor rebellion? Because we are busy with survival. ” In TD Berlin, people who live in poverty in Germany are in the center of 75 minutes with their specific reality of life. They say that the text basis for the “touched” #armuts, the new production of Helge Schmidt and his teams are posts under the hashtag #ichbinarmuts and texts that were created in the seminar “everyday experience as a political speech” at the University of Duisburg Essen.
Actresses Agnes Dexer, Ruth Marie Kreoger and Laura Ulog bring reports on experience directly on the stage. They fulfill their trusting, very personal texts with sympathy, throw themselves into all the details with all their stage presence and, thus, become multiple for people who are practically invisible in public discourse. If so, then life is in poverty, with the help of state support, often serve as a projection surface for envy and hatred, because they do not engage in the resulting work.
An extremely dense text collage, which is opposed to you biographies, stumbling blocks, which often run into an insurmountable mountain, built hopes on the islands. Helj Schmidt allows his silver space to play actresses (costumes: Sina Bruggemann) again and again in the Star Trek universe, where there is no poverty. For poverty activist, Janine Lutt Star -Trek was in his youth in his youth from the absence of adults, a teacher and a very life. At 13, she was so curious that she was so curious.
Trap in your own life
“#Armuts is affected.” TD Berlin, again July 7
“Loneliness is like a heavy fabric that wrapped me, crushes me. I have no one who asks how I am. And poverty exacerbates her. I cannot afford courses, there is no cafe, without exit. I am captured in this apartment, in this life. ” Stefan Hubner sits in the audience and listens to his own story. After the performance, he goes on stage and sits on the catwalk with Yanina Lutt and Holger Shoniville, professor of theory and methods of social work at the University of Duysburg-Esen. Huber emphasizes how important the seminar in writing was for him to become visible. For Janina Lutt, her column was in Friday The gift of her life.
There are existential texts in unison that concern and remain in the head. And who raises the question of why it should be the way it is – in large and small. “It is interesting that I could create with all the energy that I should waste on bureaucracy, justification and fears of existence,” someone thinks.
The stage description of the process at the table had satirical potential if the situation were not damn serious. As elsewhere, we are talking about the dignity of people who differ only from another population in one characteristic: “We are financially weak.” Which should expect cyber -confusion if they become public poverty activists. And, despite everything, they are trying to defend themselves in this society. Someone says and hopes: “I no longer have the illusions of wealth or a full circle of friends. But perhaps there are small moments, small connections that can wear me. This is my life. This is not good, not heroic, but it is mine. “
