In the organizer's words:

Julian Warner has become known as a musician, anti-racist activist, artist, curator and director of the Brecht Festival in Augsburg. In his new solo, he dedicates himself to an icon of black resistance: Frantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961). Accompanied by percussionist Markus Acher, the Black artist Julian Warner relives his transformation into a soldier on stage: To the beat of the percussion, at the mercy of physical drill, he asks questions about history and his experiences in the cultural struggle for representation and resources. And he searches for his own relationship to violence. When is cultural struggle war, and is it necessary to use violence in it?

Hardly anyone has analyzed the role of violence in a world torn apart as clearly as Frantz Fanon - a 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 through the destruction of the colonial system: "The liberation of the occupied is at the same time the terror of the occupiers." Fanon's defense of anti-colonial violence was taken up by left-wing movements around the world - from the Black Panthers in the USA to the RAF in Germany - and still causes controversial discussions today.

Whether in politics, business, war or culture - the figure of the soldier has become a symbol of the present, and military thinking is increasingly shaping social action. And the question of the necessity and justification of violence is becoming ever louder.

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