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2026
time:
20:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Ephemeral Fragments Cello: Emily Wittbrodt Tubax, Hechtyphon: Florian Walter INA/GRM Atelier, Chromaplane, Strega: Korhan Erel
Three people stand close together in front of a green wall in warm light. The person in the middle, wearing glasses and a red top, places a hand around the head of the person on the left, who leans their head against them. On the right stands another person with short hair and dark clothing. All three look calmly into the camera.
From fleeting sound particles that form for a few seconds and then dissolve again, this Naxos hall concert grows at the intersection of composition, sound research, and improvised chamber music. Between hybrid blends of timbre, subtle noise nuances, and touchingly melancholic moments, the trio Ephemeral Fragments creates a dense, precisely controlled overall sound, interspersed with distinctive solo passages. In dialogue…
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2026
time:
18:30
Black-and-white photograph of a dance scene on a stage. In the center, a dancer stands in a dynamic pose: he lifts one leg high forward while the other remains firmly on the ground. One hand rests on his head as part of the choreography. The dancer is wearing light-colored sneakers, dark pants, a light top, and a loosely draped cloth over his head. The background is dark, which strongly highlights the dancer. A spotlight from the upper left illuminates him and creates strong contrasts. Around the stage, audience members sit on the floor and watch the performance attentively.
HOUSEaHOLICS is a collective dedicated to fostering House Culture—House Dance and House Music—across Hesse, with a strong focus on Frankfurt am Main. Alongside workshops, panel talks, and club nights, they curate a monthly jam under the motto “Where Dancers and DJs connect.” The aim is to bridge the House dance and House music scenes, encourage exchange, and build a sustainable,…
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2026
time:
19:00
naxos.Kino
Directed by Aysun Bademsoy
Aysun Bademsoy’s long-term observation of Turkish women football players in Berlin-Kreuzberg turns to the next generation 30 years after the first encounter. Born and raised in Germany, they nevertheless ask themselves: Are we really accepted here? It seems as if a cultural divide still shapes their lives. Looking back to the 1990s, their mothers reminisce about a youth in which…
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2026
time:
16:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Project Management Eva Streit
Textile collage made of black, white, and green fabric pieces, yellow strips, stitched-on cardboard pieces, and loose threads.
How to archive a memory?How to archive feelings? soft archives explores textiles as collective archives and carriers of memory.In open crafting sessions, participants and the artistic team investigate how longing, belonging, and lived experiences can be woven into a material—how they inscribe themselves and intertwine, and what emerges in the shared act of making while hands are busy. The growing…
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2026
time:
20:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Performance, Stage, Costume Nazanin Bahrami
Abstract neon-blue drawing on an orange-red background: a figure with raised arms, open mouth, and words like ‘RAISED ARMS’ and ‘OPEN MOUTH’ around it.
How reportable is it to witness the suffering of others?How do we bear witness to this suffering?How do the pain and grief of others resonate within us?How can we form a connection to distant pain and death separated by vast geographic and cultural distances?Could the concealment and distortion of reality through biased reporting be among the deepest injustices of humanity?How…
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2026
time:
20:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Performance, Stage, Costume Nazanin Bahrami
Abstract neon-blue drawing on an orange-red background: a figure with raised arms, open mouth, and words like ‘RAISED ARMS’ and ‘OPEN MOUTH’ around it.
How reportable is it to witness the suffering of others?How do we bear witness to this suffering?How do the pain and grief of others resonate within us?How can we form a connection to distant pain and death separated by vast geographic and cultural distances?Could the concealment and distortion of reality through biased reporting be among the deepest injustices of humanity?How…
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2026
time:
20:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Performance, Stage, Costume Nazanin Bahrami
Abstract neon-blue drawing on an orange-red background: a figure with raised arms, open mouth, and words like ‘RAISED ARMS’ and ‘OPEN MOUTH’ around it.
How reportable is it to witness the suffering of others?How do we bear witness to this suffering?How do the pain and grief of others resonate within us?How can we form a connection to distant pain and death separated by vast geographic and cultural distances?Could the concealment and distortion of reality through biased reporting be among the deepest injustices of humanity?How…
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2026
time:
15:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Project Management Eva Streit
Textile collage made of black, white, and green fabric pieces, yellow strips, stitched-on cardboard pieces, and loose threads.
How to archive a memory?How to archive feelings? soft archives explores textiles as collective archives and carriers of memory.In open crafting sessions, participants and the artistic team investigate how longing, belonging, and lived experiences can be woven into a material—how they inscribe themselves and intertwine, and what emerges in the shared act of making while hands are busy. The growing…
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2026
time:
14:00
Theater Willy Praml
Duration 3 hours
For centuries, storytelling has held a central place in the collective memory of the Levant, and the Hakawati was the undisputed master of the evening gatherings. The Hakawati was not merely a storyteller; he opened the gateway to other worlds, building bridges between history and fiction, between reality and legend. Theater Willy Praml revives this tradition with its Syrian ensemble…
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2026
time:
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Three performers in white bathrobes sit or lean in the window openings of an old brick façade with glass blocks.
The crazy path from the last working day of the Naxos-Union workers in 1990to the first premiere of THEATER WILLY PRAML in 2000. The Naxoshalle almost didn’t survive. Remove its heritage protection statusand finally let the investor build—this was the hope of some.Let the grass grow over everything or let the concrete pour. No more destruction of urban history that…
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2026
time:
18:00
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
Three performers inside an old rusty bus: a woman in a red bathrobe stands, a barefoot man in a black suit sits, and a man in a striped undershirt stands beside him.
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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2026
time:
20:00
Dorfproduct
Choreography, Space & Lighting Simon Möllendorf
A dancer leaps dynamically through the air, wearing a red top and a flowing white skirt.
The times are serious: border controls on one side, boundless technology on the other. Keep on dancing?In the solo performance by dancer Camilla Fiumara, the question arises whether the imperfect, the childlike, can hold a power of salvation. Amid the fog of the present stands a white cube—a space to move freely and expand the boundaries of the world. Inside,…
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2026
time:
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
Three performers inside an old rusty bus: a woman in a red bathrobe stands, a barefoot man in a black suit sits, and a man in a striped undershirt stands beside him.
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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2026
time:
20:00
Dorfproduct
Choreography, Space & Lighting Simon Möllendorf
A dancer leaps dynamically through the air, wearing a red top and a flowing white skirt.
The times are serious: border controls on one side, boundless technology on the other. Keep on dancing?In the solo performance by dancer Camilla Fiumara, the question arises whether the imperfect, the childlike, can hold a power of salvation. Amid the fog of the present stands a white cube—a space to move freely and expand the boundaries of the world. Inside,…
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2026
time:
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
Three performers inside an old rusty bus: a woman in a red bathrobe stands, a barefoot man in a black suit sits, and a man in a striped undershirt stands beside him.
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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2026
time:
20:00
Dorfproduct
Choreography, Space & Lighting Simon Möllendorf
A dancer leaps dynamically through the air, wearing a red top and a flowing white skirt.
The times are serious: border controls on one side, boundless technology on the other. Keep on dancing?In the solo performance by dancer Camilla Fiumara, the question arises whether the imperfect, the childlike, can hold a power of salvation. Amid the fog of the present stands a white cube—a space to move freely and expand the boundaries of the world. Inside,…
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2026
time:
20:00
Dorfproduct
Choreography, Space & Lighting Simon Möllendorf
A dancer leaps dynamically through the air, wearing a red top and a flowing white skirt.
The times are serious: border controls on one side, boundless technology on the other. Keep on dancing?In the solo performance by dancer Camilla Fiumara, the question arises whether the imperfect, the childlike, can hold a power of salvation. Amid the fog of the present stands a white cube—a space to move freely and expand the boundaries of the world. Inside,…
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2026
time:
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
Three performers inside an old rusty bus: a woman in a red bathrobe stands, a barefoot man in a black suit sits, and a man in a striped undershirt stands beside him.
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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2026
time:
19:30
Introduction (english) Katharina Jost (Goethe University Frankfurt), Nils Meyn (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
Neither images nor memories refuse to disappear. At this pre-conference event, we’ll be screening two recent documentary films that instantiate the theme driving the conference in the days to follow. Both films are constructed from archival materials, engaging with deeply personal biographies while addressing complex questions of race and queerness, family and home. - Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (Kanada 2025, French…
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2026
time:
18:00
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
Three performers inside an old rusty bus: a woman in a red bathrobe stands, a barefoot man in a black suit sits, and a man in a striped undershirt stands beside him.
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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