Woyzeck Interrupted

The victim. The perpetrator. The excluded. This is how we know the protagonist from the countless productions. The number of violent acts committed by men against women has hardly changed in the almost two hundred years. Unfortunately, femicides are not a rarity in reality, not an isolated case, but a whole pattern. Mahin Sadri and Amir Reza Koohestani propose a new way: to break the construct.

In the organizer's words:

Everything is under the sign of interruption: the rehearsals for a production of Büchner's Woyzeck are interrupted shortly before the premiere, the leading actor's affair with the guest student is also interrupted, as is their pregnancy and the future fantasy of a child together. Even their separation comes to a halt by a lockdown. The couple, who can no longer be a couple and perhaps never were, are locked in an apartment, thrown back on their mutual dependencies and on the echoes of Büchner's text. Newspaper reports of several murders of women and the corresponding court cases had provided the impetus for Georg Büchner's Woyzeck at the time. With regard to men's acts of violence against women, little has changed in the nearly two hundred years since. A woman is still killed by her partner or ex-partner every three days in Germany. This is where playwright Mahin Sadri and director Amir Reza Koohestani start with their text. They search for the gender-specific power relations and the structural violence in private. In light of the repetitive femicides in reality, they not only narrate an individual case, but also show a pattern - not to reproduce it, but to interrupt it. Woyzeck Interrupted premiered online as a streamed version on December 19, 2020, during the corona-related closure period, and ran successfully in multiple digital screenings. Now the production can finally be shown to live audiences. Note : In this production, sexual violence against women is addressed in an intense way, including citing authentic femicides, which can be stressful or retraumatizing. To the digital bonus material For school classes: We offer Woyzeck Interrupted as a stream for the digital classroom, which you can use for your entire school class on your preferred date. Streams for the digital classroom This content has been machine translated.

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