Protect Yourself

Protect Yourself

A performative evening about self-protection as resistance

by Caner Akdeniz & team

"Those who fight against Nazis cannot rely on the state." - Esther Bejarano

31 years after Solingen, four years after Hanau, a few months after right-wing extremist coup plans: Protect Yourself is a personal, political and urgent evening of theater about growing up in a society in which racist violence is part of everyday life - and about the question of how to protect oneself when state protection is lacking.

Based on autobiographical memories - from the masked surname on the doorbell sign to the metal ladder in the children's room - a collective narrative of anti-racist self-defense unfolds. A story that draws support, even where it was never intended. Together - and against a hostile trained artificial intelligence - an evening about adaptation and fear, about resistance, solidarity and the strength that grows out of fear.

Text, direction, space Caner Akdeniz | performance, text Sümeyra Yilmaz | performance Sema Poyraz | text, dramaturgy Destina Yildirim, Demjan Duran | AI David Goldberg | video, music Jonas Friedlich | costume, marketing Emir Medić | production management, assistance Deniz Özbay

Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.