Die Erfindung des Jazz im Donbass

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Theater am Goetheplatz

world premiere
based on the novel by Serhij Zhadan
translated from the Ukrainian by Juri Durkot and Sabine Stöhr
Director: Armin Petras

An early morning phone call from the Donbass. His brother has disappeared and Hermann has been asked to look after his petrol station. He sets off on an adventurous journey, gets to know the two headstrong employees and falls in love with the accountant Olga. The sprawling industrial area of the Donets Basin becomes a mysterious landscape and Hermann finds himself surrounded by wild dogs, torched tankers and places that seem to him like sinking ships. Serhij Zhadan, born in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, writes poetry, prose and performs as a singer; since the 1990s, he has been one of Kharkiv's most influential voices. In 2022, he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, among others. His novel was written before the current war and the Russian annexation of Crimea, "a hymn to the cruelly crazy underworld of post-socialism" (Die Zeit), which will be premiered by Armin Petras in Bremen.