Theatre Performance

Und wir hatten doch schon Gelassenheit geübt -CANCELLED-

MADE.Festival 2026

Events

Saturday
23. May 26, 20:00 Uhr
Tickets

Unfortunately, the performance at Produktionshaus NAXOS on May 23 has been cancelled due to illness. There will be an opportunity to see the piece on May 31 at Staatstheater Darmstadt.

 

There are two men and their strange costumes: actually, they want people to forget how to sigh. Not only. But also. Maybe they should just start with something funny. If that works, … says one of them. But he would rather not tell a joke about Germany after all. Two men driven by the question of where this Germany is heading. Two men who are not always in a hopeless position, but often caught between all sides. Two men and their attempts to somehow find their way. Also: Josephine Baker, German gold medals, the field hare, reality, boxers who have been stripped of their titles, a manor where people think they know what is German, a provocation that connects, a failed favorite poem, young people dressed in black, reality, us, a puppet theatre, many wishes, several assumptions, stories of people who do not belong here, private jets, democracy, confessions, confessions, values that everyone is supposed to share, without ifs and buts. Oh yes, and diversity. But you have to be able to deal with that, says one of the two men.

A melancholic yet playful attempt to deal with the challenges of our time. Is it possible to remain neutral in this?

MADE.Jury
Text
Rolf Michenfelder (with grateful use of inspirations, thoughts, and words by Carolin Emcke, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Fatma Aydemir, Navid Kermani, Deniz Utlu, Mithu Sanyal, Margarete Stokowski, Rio Reiser. Also by Max Schmeling, Ludwig Heymann, Friedrich Merz. And, unfortunately, also by Götz Kubitschek, Martin Sellner, Björn Höcke)
Directed by
Rolf Michenfelder
With
Nisse Kreysing, Rolf Michenfelder
Music
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Lighting, Sound
Felix Schwarzrock
Stage
Rolf Michenfelder, Siggi Ulm
Artistic Collaboration
Kristin Gerwien
Public Relations
Anna Bobrovskaia
Duration
approx. 90 minutes
Entrance fee
Solidarity pricing; pay what you can!

The production is part of the MADE.Festival 2026. MADE. has been presenting outstanding productions from the independent performing arts scene in Hesse across multiple cities since 2009, always in dialogue with the present. Each edition of MADE. focuses on a central theme; the motto of the 8th festival is: WHO with WHOM
8 selected theatre experiences explore our networks of relationships: WHO has shaped our lives, WHO inspires us and shapes or undermines our society, from WHOM (or WHAT) should we keep our distance, and WHAT (or WHOM) do we want to or should we engage with more closely? Let’s find out together!

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