Julian Warner – known as musician, anti-racist activist, artist, curator, and director of the Brecht Festival in Augsburg – dedicates his new solo show to the 100th birthday of an icon of Black resistance: Frantz Fanon.
Whether in politics, economics, or war, the figure of the soldier has become a symbol of our time, and military thinking increasingly shapes our actions. This always raises the question of the necessity and justification of violence.
Hardly anyone has analyzed the role of violence in a torn world as clearly as Frantz Fanon, the psychiatrist and Marxist from Martinique. He was convinced that the dehumanization caused by European colonialism could not be ended through talks or concessions, but only by smashing the colonial system itself. His defense of anti-colonial violence was taken up by left-wing movements around the world – from the Black Panthers in the US to the RAF in Germany – and continues to spark debate to this day.
When is it necessary to use violence or to organize against it? A body enters the stage – it becomes a soldier. To the beat of the percussion, at the mercy of physical drill, it questions history and searches for its own relationship to violence.
“The Soldier. A Rite of Passage” consists of two parts. Part One is a 50-minute musical performance. Part Two is a 60-minute follow-up discussion in fishbowl format, in which the audience, guided by two group analysts, works through the experience together.
Infos
- Duration: 50 minutes + 60 minutes fishbowl talk
- Language: German
- Fishbowl discussion following
- on February 5 with audio description and tactile guidance
Accessibility
Accessibility of Event
Accessibility of Location
am 05.02. Audiodeskription und Tastführung
- Live-Audiodeskription in deutscher Sprache für blinde und sehbehinderte Zuschauer*innen mit vorangehender Tastführung.
- Die Tastführung startet um 18:45 Uhr und dauert ca. 30 Minuten. Der Treffpunkt ist vor dem Eingang zum Saal.
- Tastbilder während der Vorstellung
- Begleitservice ab Haltestelle Merianplatz (U4), Zoo (U6/U7) und Waldschmidtstraße (Straba) möglich, bitte per Mail oder telefonisch anmelden
- Die Empfangsgeräte und Kopfhörer für die Audiodeskription erhalten Sie am Saaleingang vom Vorderhauspersonal.
- sagen Sie uns gern via barrierefreiheit@mousonturm.de oder + 49 (0) 1590 184 70 05 Bescheid, wenn Sie Audiodeskription & Tastführung in Anspruch nehmen möchten
- Audioflyer (SoundCloud)
Sponsors and Supporters
Concept, performance, music: Julian Warner
Music and live percussion: Markus Acher
Voice: Veronica Burnuthian
Dramaturgy: Veronika Maurer
Lighting and technical management: Dennis Dita Kopp
Artistic production management: Sabine Klötzer
Translations: Veronica Burnuthian, Anna McCarthy
Audio description: Dana Lienert, Anja Schneidereit, Mariam Nazaryan
Group analysts: Inge Schubert, Fernando Espinoza
Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture as part of the series All In – Theater by everyone for everyone.
Audio description: Part of the accessibility measures at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt and the Aventis Foundation. Part of the series “Theater von allen für alle” (Theater by everyone for everyone), funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture.
05.02. Audiodeskription und Tastführung
am 05.02. mit Audiodeskription und Tastführung
- Live-Audiodeskription in deutscher Sprache für blinde und sehbehinderte Zuschauer*innen mit vorangehender Tastführung.
- Die Tastführung startet um 18:45 Uhr und dauert ca. 30 Minuten. Der Treffpunkt ist vor dem Eingang zum Saal.
- Tastbilder während der Vorstellung
- Begleitservice ab Haltestelle Merianplatz (U4), Zoo (U6/U7) und Waldschmidtstraße (Straba) möglich, bitte per Mail oder telefonisch anmelden
- Die Empfangsgeräte und Kopfhörer für die Audiodeskription erhalten Sie am Saaleingang vom Vorderhauspersonal.
- sagen Sie uns gern via barrierefreiheit@mousonturm.de oder + 49 (0) 1590 184 70 05 Bescheid, wenn Sie Audiodeskription & Tastführung in Anspruch nehmen möchten
- Audioflyer (SoundCloud)
Biografie
Julian Warner is a German-British artist and curator. He was artistic director of the Brecht Festival Augsburg from 2023 to 2025 and was responsible for the Festival of the Stuttgart Cultural Region in 2022. Prior to that, he designed festivals and spectacles for the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, the Münchner Kammerspiele, and many others. He has working relationships with conceptual artist Anta Helena Recke, choreographer Joana Tischkau, theater maker Oliver Zahn, and musician Markus Acher. He is the editor of an anthology on problems of postcolonial criticism in Germany “After Europe. Contributions to Decolonial Criticism” (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and has been training as a group analyst at the Seminar für Gruppenanalyse Zürich (SGAZ) since 2019. Since 2025, he has held the professorship for transdisciplinary artistic practice at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts (HMDK).
Content Note
Experiences of racism are addressed in the performance. It also includes racist remarks.