In the organizer's words:

On August 26, 2021, the last evacuation flight of the German Armed Forces leaves Kabul Airport. It takes off and disappears on the horizon. And with it, Afghanistan disappears, even for Ariana.

What the German-Afghan protagonist Ariana has left in LANDSFRAU are memories. As the last plane takes off, her thoughts and impressions unfold. Biographical episodes, nostalgia and fantasy stories, Afghan music and choreographic elements - through Ariana, these intertwine like a collage and become fleeting images of an Afghanistan that perhaps never existed. Ariana contrasts the overrepresented Western positions, images and narratives about Afghanistan with her own, diasporic ones. She overwrites and changes them, thereby creating an intimate and political space that cannot be taken away from her. Simultaneously confronted with a feeling of guilt about her own "peaceful" everyday life, the solo evening LANDSFRAU paints a multi-layered and detailed picture of life in the diaspora - including its problems and privileges.

Revival of Landsfrau. Premiere: Berlin Ringtheater, August 21, 2023

Languages: in German and Dari, with surtitles in Dari or German and English

The revival is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin


Credits

Management team - Doris Crea Kollektiv (Andrej Agranovski, Leonard Dick, Alessa Maria Karešin, Mariann Yar)

Text and direction - Leonard Dick, Mariann Yar

Music - Andrej Agranovski, Mariann Yar

Musical consulting - Elias Shahna Ebadi

Stage and costume - Amelie Sabbagh

Production and dramaturgy - Alessa Maria Karešin

Outside-Eye - Thalia Hertel

Dramaturgical advice - Lars Werner

Choreography - Paul Calderone

Visual Design & Video - Cornelius Reitmayr

Photo - Cornelius Reitmayr

Acting - Mariann Yar

Mentoring - Meriam Bousselmi