In the organizer's words:

EINE POLIT-OPER STÜRZT AB
a co-production by Valerij Lisac and studiobühneköln
at the Alte Feuerwache

February 6:
Followed by a panel discussion
"On the precipice of the format - the audience strikes back.
(discussion about politainment and the public)"
with communication scientist and publicist Nadia Zaboura
and film critic and podcaster Wolfgang M. Schmitt
In cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NRW

"The best things on television are its trash [...] Television is at its most trivial - and therefore most dangerous - when its standards are high, when it presents itself as a vehicle for important cultural conversations."
Neil Postman, 1985

News as show, politics as spectacle: what remains when everything is just entertainment? The Asasello Quartet, Lara Pietjou and Valerij Lisac dismantle the political media stage
media stage musically, performatively and medially - virtuosic, over-the-top, precise. On stage: a string quartet as talk show guests, a presenter on the verge of collapse.
collapse. She tries to organize what has long since gotten out of control - on the precipice of the format, striving for structure, but overrun by the spectacle she is supposed to tame. Between Beethoven and lectern, string quartet
and TikTok, operatic gestures and overload, the production drives the politainment up the wall. A musical disturbance in the (political) system. Loud. Pleasurable. Uncomfortable. Live.

with: Asasello Quartet (Rostislav Kozhevnikov, violin; Casper Hesprich, violin; Justyna Sliwa, viola; Teemu Myöhänen, cello) and Lara Pietjou
Direction, concept, music composition and video: Valerij Lisac
Set design: Lena Thelen
Lighting: Simon Kwame
Outside Eye: Stawrula Panagiotaki

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Kunststiftung NRW, the
NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, the NRW Kultursekretariat and the
the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW
In cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NRW

Price information:
15 € | 7 € | Accompanying person free for severely disabled persons
Free admission for first-year students of the University of Cologne