Bremen's inclusive festival Mittenmang with artists from all over Europe once again invites you on a unique journey. If RambaZamba's Murder on the Regional Express suggests a short journey, Danza Mobile's Day Man Walked on the Moon clearly expands the space. However, Theater Bremen and Blaumeier-Atelier kick things off with a musical excursion that traces Britney Spears' path in an emancipatory pop song recital. Hooray, Romeo and Juliet! I deleted the scene with the corpse - in this Dortmund version, the title-giving treatment of the classic makes the lovers' surprising journey around the world possible! Before, in between and after, theater, dance and performance, exhibition, film and party - and especially Marina Otero's oppressive and inspiring work Kill Me about the madness of love, as part of a journey that lasts a lifetime.

For the first time, the Kunsthalle Bremen will also be the venue for the Mittenmang event. The starting point is the exhibition Kunst fühlen. We. All. Together, which will be showing works by artists with disabilities from the Kunsthalle's historical collection as well as contemporary positions over the summer. Experiencing art with all the senses is both the wish and the offer of this show, which Mittenmang will accompany with two great musical readings as a sensual supporting program. The actress Anne Bennent and the accordionist Otto Lechner will first devote themselves to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and on the following day to the surprising insights into the nature of their favorite authors Franz Kafka and Robert Walser.

From Thursday to Saturday, brilliant street theater awaits on Goetheplatz - and this year also partly in front of the citizens on the market square. While Blaumeier's masks perform many a relationship pirouette in the dusty dance hall, the robots on the square are running out of their well-programmed rudder. Les Grooms instigate another musical street battle, while steampunk tinkerers try to escape the apocalypse. Gottlob, a duo on a Chinese pole, literally keeps us on our toes and brings hope to the Common Ground in front of the theater.

Whether indoors, outdoors or outside, ensembles from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Spain and Wales celebrate an artistic festival of encounters for five days - be right in the middle of it!