HEIMTÜCKE

In the organizer's words:

In a study from 2022, the IFO Institute estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a 40% increase in domestic violence. However, in a time characterized by international crises, it is difficult to focus attention appropriately on such a complex issue. For victims, violence usually takes place within their own four walls, behind closed doors. The specially developed play HEIMTÜCKE brings this topic to the stage through a variation on a real case from German judicial history in a special symbiosis of different artistic and technical disciplines.

HEIMTÜCKE deals with various problems: the feelings of hopelessness that many victims experience in such a violent situation, as well as the difficulty for relatives to interpret signs correctly and intervene in time. In addition to critically examining the way society deals with domestic violence, the book also addresses issues such as female rage, criticism of the murder paragraph (especially the homicide criterion) and the difference between equal and fair treatment between men and women before the law.

In terms of content, the legal case is of course based on a question of law and justice and a perpetrator duality is at the heart of the play. In HEIMTÜCKE, however, we will not merely present a moral dilemma as in most courtroom dramas. Instead, two sides are presented in the second and third acts: The perspective of the lawyers in charge of the case and the perspective of the accused. The legal approach must scientify what appears so subjective to the outside world. This work is essential for a functioning, non-arbitrary constitutional state, but it also poses challenges. But what does it do to us when our most emotional experiences and crucial decisions about our future are discussed by strangers in front of our eyes? And in a way of speaking that is almost inaccessible with a lack of specialist knowledge?

The play is a unique symbiosis of law, theater, film and contemporary dance. In addition to classical spoken theater, complicated content is also abstracted with language and movement. During the interval between the acts, there will also be an artistic and informative exhibition on the theme of the play, for which the HEIMTÜCKE ensemble, together with Ballhaus Prinzenallee, is working primarily with female artists and aid organizations.

Director, choreography: Elli Treptow
Director, playwright: Emma Petersen
Director of video installations: Ben Vollert
Assistant director: Jonas Pfeifer
Sound design: Theo Beckler
Stage design: Elena Lesniak
Costume & make-up: Ole Ferchland
Dramaturgy: Moritz Barner
Production management: Lukas Harkotte
With: Marisa Wojtkowiak, Ole Xylander, Martin Wimmer, Kira Napadovskyy, Josef Volmer, Aaron Anders, Merle Sophie Gebauer
Speaker: Beate Petersen
Intimacy coordination: Ole Xylander

A production by Emma Lee Petersen & Elli Treptow in cooperation with Ballhaus Prinzenallee.

Dates:
06.03.2024 // 20:00 (premiere, world premiere)
23.03.2024 // 20:00
25.04.2024 // 20:00

Price information:

Ticket category Price Normal €18.00 Reduced €13.00 Festival-Soli-Ticket €10.00