In the organizer's words:

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Tanju Girişken | World premiere

Language begins at home. But what if you are at home in several languages? If I speak several languages, do I also have several selves? And who am I in each language? When does my German self appear and when does my native language self appear? Stage designer Lisa Chiara Kohler has sought a place in Mannheim that represents the feeling of being "in-between". Between languages, worlds and biographies. If you think of Dalbergstraße when you think of the stage, you're not entirely wrong. But it could also be any other train station in the world. A place where you don't linger because you are right at home, or very far away from it. The mother tongue always in your luggage. With "Mutter dili - alle Farben meiner Sprachen" (14+), the Junge Nationaltheater has sought out the "linguistic in-between-ness" of its ensemble, the Junge X Bühne and the city of Mannheim and, under the direction of Tanju Girişken, has created a play about language, identity and belonging. This topic is the Turkish director's specialty. He studied acting in Istanbul and directing in Munich at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding. In 2023, his play "befristet/für immer" won the audience award at the Körberstudio Junge Regie. This content has been machine translated.