Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

The fact of the matter is: There are these two guys and they say it as it is. And kudos to them for doing so. For these two exercise power. Against the enemy, against the friend, against each other, against themselves. That’s how it is in cabaret. You strike out and strike … at nothing. Tucholsky prevented the Holocaust, Georg Kreisler did the same for Vietnam. And now us. The things we’ve managed to prevent! A song here, a line there and empires fall apart. You sit over there, we stand over here. Nothing can happen, but look: a handstand! If I finish this cup of coffee, an African baby dies, and when I hold this empty coffee cup to my ear, I can hear a polar bear in the distance getting too close to the city.

For their graduation piece at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Stephan Dorn and Falk Rößler examined German “Kleinkunst” a.k.a. cabaret. They question what critical art was, is and can possibly (no longer) be and what the  contemporary aesthetics of cabaret – including pantomime, song and juggling (like you wouldn’t believe!) – might be.

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Concept, Text, Music, Performance: Stephan Dorn & Falk Rößler * Technic, Space, Design: Jost von Harleßem * Costumes, Space: Katharina Sendfeld * Production: Alessia Neumann * Dramaturgy: Michaela Stolte * Collaboration Dramaturgy: Nele Stuhler & Lisa Schettel * Supportet by: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft Gießen, Hessische Theaterakademie, Hessische Film- und Medienakademie, Kulturamt der Stadt Gießen, Z — Zentrum für Proben und Forschung Frankfurt.