Get in and experience a very special performance on four wheels with "Taxi Darko"! Cab driver Bernard Darko and his daughter, the artist Zandile Darko, take the audience on a moving journey from A as it was then in Ghana to B as it is now in Hamburg. What lies in between are memories, souvenirs, language and music and the unheard stories of a (not so small) German community. It starts at Kampnagel, where three hosts accompany the audience on their first tracks and to three large cabs, into a sound collage. Outside, the city passes by, inside conversations, music by Fela Kuti, fragments of memories of paths, dreams, questions. An hour-long journey leads along main and side roads, the stage is the soft seats and the interior of the car.

Zandile Darko's CV includes a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, several international master's degrees and her own productions. In this performance, however, she gives her father space for his stories. Because she and he never had a common language. Between German, Twi and English, her speaking is always a search "for a place that lies between the languages, each time creating a new hybrid space in which communication is possible at all." The Darkos follow the principle of autohistoria, which the feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa described as follows: "This form [of autohistoria] goes beyond the traditional self-portrait or autobiography; it is a way in which we can create history, invent our own history from our experience and through our art, instead of simply accepting the version of the dominant society."

Bernard Darko takes the audience of "Taxi Darko" with him on his shift and into his world. "You have mouth but you cannot talk," he says when he talks about his everyday life, about the stages of a life in between, in pop and memory culture. Growing up in Ghana, traveling to Germany, years in a cab, which Darko also used to drive his daughters to school, where he heard thousands of stories and where, since everyone has cell phones, there is less and less talking.

Get in the car! And let me walk you a mile in my shoes...