Felix Stachelhaus & Team: Besser werden!

In the organizer's words:

A late-capitalist cantata of advice for success fanatics and depressive choirs.

The coaching scene is booming - at huge events or exclusive retreats, in online seminars, countless podcasts and thousands upon thousands of YouTube tutorials, we can learn to become "the best version of ourselves" - namely the successful version.

With BESSER WERDEN!, Felix Stachelhaus and team get to the bottom of the neoliberal promise of advancement, obsessive self-optimization mania and omnipresent performance imperative of the affluent society.

Five musicians from the Berlin new music ensemble LUX:NM, singer Lisa Florentine Schmalz and the a cappella choir DooDooBa! invite you to a unique counseling event.

Between motivational training, contemporary music theater and cabaret, BESSER WERDEN! poses the question of what success really is, why we strive for constant improvement and what happiness actually means, between absurd humor and deep seriousness.

With
Singing, performance: Lisa Florentine Schmalz

Ensemble LUX:NM:
Silke Lange (accordion)
Florian Juncker (trombone)
Ruth Velten (saxophone)
Rike Huy (trumpet)
Zoé Cartier (cello)
Martin Offik (sound direction)
DooDooBa! A capella choir (conductor: Sophia Bös)

By:

Conception, composition, direction: Felix Stachelhaus
Conceptual collaboration, dramaturgy: Frederike Prick-Hoffmann
Stage, Video: Christopher Dippert
Costume: Hanne Lenze-Lauch, Johanna Winkler
Lighting: Sönke Herm

A production by Felix Stachelhaus and team in cooperation with LICHTHOF Theater, Ballhaus Ost and resonanzraum.

Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Musikfonds e.V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Claussen Simon Foundation, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Ilse and Dr. Horst Rusch Foundation. The Ensemble LUX:NM is supported by the Senate Department for Culture, Berlin.