Wolf

In the organizer's words:

Wolf - by Saša Stanišić - with artistic audio description - ages 10 and up - premiere on December 5, 2024 - Münsterstraße 446, stage - Junges Schauspiel

Kemi is surprised to learn from his mother that she has signed him up for a vacation camp in the forest because she has to work. Vacation camp means stinging nettles, thorns, mosquitoes, and worst of all: almost everyone in his class is also registered. The nice ones, the athletes, the horse girls, the gamblers. And Jörg, who always stands on the sidelines.

Jörg and Kemi end up in the same room because they were left over from the room allocation. That's how democracy works, thinks Kemi. The daily excursions delight everyone except forest hater Kemi, who observes how Marco and his followers harass Jörg and make him even more of a loner or, as the book puts it, "other-er". One solution could be to tell the counselors about it. In concrete terms, he could simply forget about it. And the solution would be to stand by Jörg. But Kemi is glad that it didn't happen to him and he keeps quiet. Because he knows what it's like to be bullied: when his father was away and he and his mother had to save on everything, there were stupid comments. A decision has to be made. Then a wolf appears, sitting next to Kemi's bed at night with glittering eyes.

Saša Stanišić's first children's book "Wolf" has been nominated for the 2024 Youth Literature Prize. Director Carmen Schwarz tells the novel as a story about friendship and civil courage. She combines acting with puppetry and invites sighted, visually impaired and blind people alike with an artistic audio description.