In the organizer's words:

In the performance Familiengefühlsfabrik, 36 young people, together with artist Juliane Meckert, create entertaining images of the future of the family and ask moving questions about our present.

The year is 3020 and families no longer live on a single planet, but in two worlds: a warm, golden world of women full of cats and a landscape of singing forests and orchards. Memories appear as light, communication takes place via gestures, vibrations and thoughts. And yet some sentences remain: "Don't stay out too long", "Never give up".

In this participatory setting, the audience is invited to contribute their own memories, perspectives and experiences. What is family? Who belongs to it? Which stories do we tell - and which remain unspoken?

Through movement, music, text and performative sequences, a space of experience is created in which the future and everyday life merge. The young people interweave personal perspectives with collective utopias and open doors to spaces that are otherwise rarely entered. They show the family as a system in motion: a place of closeness and confinement, of rules and secrets, of care and chaos. A structure that produces feelings like a factory - tender, unruly, overwhelming.

The family feeling factory shows family as a feeling, as a construction, as a space of possibility - and as a network of many voices, times and worlds. The performance becomes a mirror and a laboratory for the future. It makes visible what connects us, what challenges us, what we pass on. All those present are invited to rethink the family - as an open, flexible form of living together.

Familiengefühlsfabrik takes place as part of Humboldting! Schüler*innen forschen, a long-term project of the Humboldt Forum Foundation at the Berlin Palace at the interface of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming and Darren O'Donnell.

Participating pupils

Solaf, Ceylin, Kaan, Elli, Hamid, Duru, Julina, Ecem, Bao Chau, Zara, Sabrija, Nahla, Evelina, Ceylin, Havin, Buse, Eylül, Sarina, Selina, Enzo, Solange, Mehmet, Hanna, Ariya, Varvara, Aylin, Kira, Soraya, Iman, Dayaa, Laia, Cinzia, Lamija, Pia, Asya, Princess

Participants

Juliane Meckert (*1982, Leipzig) is a freelance actress, director and theater pedagogue in Berlin. She studied acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg and works both on and off stage. She has worked at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Steirischer Herbst, Mica Moca, Sophiensäle, Lofft, the Theater and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She is and was part of the collectives Fritzpunkt, internil, wilde pferde, collective bleeding and WESSER | MECKERT. Her plays deal with socio-political issues, including Næste Station Stengårdsvej (2021, collective bleeding) about Danish ghetto laws, Gefährten (2021) about human-animal relationships, Wir kriegen Euch Alle! (2022, WESSER I MECKERT) on the baseball bat years and Unser Land (2023) on Sorbian-German relations. Her work is characterized by site-specific, performative and participatory formats in collaboration with so-called "experts of everyday life" and with a focus on space, ritual, memory and transformation.

- free of charge

- Duration: 90 min

- from 14 years

- German

- Mechanical arena in the foyer

- Belongs to: Conceal or tell?