7 1/2 BRÜCKEN

In the organizer's words:

Potsdam is an island to which seven bridges lead. Almost everything that enters or leaves the city rolls over them at some point: Raw materials and goods, food and garbage, love letters and business mail. But above all people: Electors and kings as well as fruit growers, soldiers or the supplier of toilet paper for Empress Augusta's lavatory; Hitler and Hindenburg as well as the chambermaid who made Stalin's bed in 1945; silent civil servants or chattering silent movie stars on their way to their first sound film recording. The bridges were once planned and built, maintained over the course of time, renewed, demolished, moved or blown up. Ships have passed under them for centuries, excursion steamers, barges, fishing boats and sailing yachts. Over them, the paths lead from the places of power to the places of powerlessness, from the nurseries in Babelsberg Palace to the military orphanage, from the dream factory to the gun factory, from the villas of the suburbs to the apartments of the prefabricated buildings. On and under these buildings, which connect the banks and lead out into the world, people meet who are separated by more than just the Havel: their social status, their convictions, their origins, their goals and dreams.

Jan Neumann and the ensemble embark on a wild research trip right into the heart of Potsdam's eventful city history and develop a revue-like, dazzling mosaic of scenes full of encounters from found and invented material during rehearsals. With humor and music, they attempt to build a bridge between past and present, between feuding parties who have lost touch with each other, between the familiar and the never-happened or long-forgotten stories of this city ...