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38 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: What does East Berlin mean today? Director Luise Voigt and dramaturge Eva Bormann spoke to twenty people who were born between 1929 and 2008 – newcomers, those that stayed, survivors, those that fled, those that returned. Together, their stories create a fictional apartment building in East Berlin: an almost verbatim show about division and longing, anger and understanding – told by people who have a connection to Berlin.
What does East Berlin mean 38 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? What connects East and West Berlin? And how are the two halves of the city, which were hermetically sealed off from one another for 28 years by a 156.4-kilometer-long wall, still different? What personal stories are there and what are they about? About division or unity, about anger, understanding, ignorance or perhaps one side's longing for its missing half? To find this out, director Luise Voigt and dramaturge Eva Bormann spoke to twenty people who live, work and reside in East Berlin. People who were born between 1929 and 2008. People who experienced this city with and without the wall. The spectrum ranges from a district mayor to a homeless person who lives in a tent in East Berlin, from party functionaries to civil rights activists, from true East Berliners to newcomers, from a building caretaker to one of the first techno DJs.
Using their diverse life stories, the production constructs a fictional apartment building in East Berlin. This results in a kind of verbatim theatre production that ventures into the former grey zone in the middle of the city. Told from the perspective of people like you and me – wait, what do you mean "we"?
- Luise Voigt Regie
- Amely Joana Haag Dramaturgie
