Erdbeerwochen

In the organizer's words:

It's about bleeding, something that usually flows by the gallon in all horror, war and zombie movies and even hospital series. In EDDBEERWOCHEN, however, the subject is menstrual bleeding, and women are still considered impure in many societies and religions if they bleed every month. Even in the modern Western world, in a world that seems so sexually enlightened, the monthly period is still largely tabooed or stigmatized. The monthly bleeding is subject to a public ban of silence, one does not speak about it, certainly not if discomfort or pain are connected with it. A woman does not have to act like that, she has to fit into a society of strength and the will to perform. While the man matures in the course of his life in the best case like good wine, the woman falls into the menopause and "dries up". With the end of female fertility, usually also ends the public visibility of women and their generally considered attractiveness. Man fucks woman - SUBJECT PREDICTION OBJECTIVE, that's how feminist Catherine McKinnen summed it up in the 60s and until today nothing has really changed. It's urgent time for women to break out of this predetermined framework, to look at their own stories and wounds and put them into words. Me Too started a ball rolling with the sexism debate and the abuse of power in Hollywood and it keeps rolling.... It rolls through one's own biography and almost every woman has to realize that she herself has already had to deal with structural sexism, usually involuntarily. And what was accepted as "normal" years ago is now considered sexist. A play is created from numerous interview transcripts, which thematically deals with the experience of the EARTHBEAR WEEKS, menstruation. From this, further narrative strands and thematic threads in the experience of the female body and its changes are unrolled. In a splinter work of mini-dramas, monologues and dialogues, four actresses relate typical situations from the lives of women and girls. As in a view through the window, lives of womanhood, humanity, are shown, never told and always in the middle. Image worlds projected on gauze, mythical lore, felt truths transported on film, the virgin bride in a spotless white wedding dress, the sound of bare feet, bloody sheets in the wind, the pain in the belly and the melancholic cyclical dreams in the lives of women - all this has space in this theater evening. A production by Amina Gusner in co-production with Theater unterm Dach, supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. This content has been machine translated.