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Play with music by Sezen Aksu
In German with Turkish surtitles | Türkçe üst yazılı

Let's imagine that the economic miracle of the 1950s had taken place in Turkey and not in Germany. Instead of the Turkish "guest workers" who came to Germany from the 1960s onwards, people from Mannheim would have emigrated to Istanbul to work and live there. How would they have found their way in the new environment? What resistance would they have encountered, what experiences would they have had? Would the new country have become their second home? In scenes in German and songs in Turkish, the theater evening "Istanbul" by director Selen Kara, musician Torsten Kindermann and author Akın Emanuel Şipal tells the story of the guest workers the other way around: Klaus Gruber, a worker from Mannheim, is looking for work and a future for himself and his family in Istanbul. But arriving in a foreign country is not so easy. Fortunately, the wonderfully sad songs of Sezen Aksu, the goddess of Turkish pop music, are able to ease the homesickness. And in the end the question remains, here and there: where should our home be - and do we even have to decide? Under this link you will find the "Istanbul" playlist on Spotify, with which you can get in the mood for your visit to the theater. This content has been machine translated.