Mutter Vater Land

In the organizer's words:

Grandpa is a writer from Istanbul. Grandma meets him as a student in Münster and although her Silesian great-grandmother is against it, they marry and father the narrator of this fast-paced and associative family story between Germany and Turkey. The grandfather does not stay in Germany for long. Or did his mother-in-law drive him away?

Full of anecdotes, verbal battles, dreams and doubts, the play and its protagonists rebel against all attributions and expectations - only to be thrown back on them and start the fight all over again. What does it mean to be German? What does it mean to be Turkish? And why do you have to choose?

Akın Emanuel Şipal pieces together the story of his own family like a mosaic to create a picture full of different perspectives, fates, decisions and missed opportunities - ambiguous, funny, emotional and truthful. He also pays tribute to his grandfather, who translated dozens of German classics into Turkish and yet is hardly known here.

A play by Akın Emanuel Şipal | With Thomas Cermak, Mounir Saidi, Bernadette Evangeline Schlottbohm, Maximilian Wex, Johanna Withalm | Directed by Inka Neubert | Stage and costume design by Linda Johnke | Music by Fadhel Boubaker | Lighting design by Stefan Grießhaber | Choreography by Catherine Guerin

A production by Theaterhaus G7

Price information:

Solidarity pricing system
The ticket for some: 25€
The ticket for some: 15€
The ticket for many: 10€
The ticket for all: 5€