City
Three interventions within the city space
22 – 23 June, 16.00 h // Meeting Point: Festival Tent
ongoing project (ATW)
WIR SOLLTEN UNS NEBENEINANDERSETZEN UND RUHE HABEN (We Should Sit Down Together and Find Peace)
Intervention
Turn people out of the theatre and onto the street: alas, how pitiful reality is! We should sit down together and find peace.
Danton’s Death
On a tour of the city of Giessen, theatregoers and theatre creators alike are faced with the task of taking Danton at his word. Disappointed by the revolutionary battle, Danton’s words should not merely be understood as a suggestion for the protagonists, but as a utopia in and of themselves. In three different parts of the city, participants will sit down together and have a rest – and perhaps a free beer as well.
Projects by the Hessian Theatre Academy
Büchner the researcher and practitioner, the scholar and tester – Büchner the “twen”. Who could be closer to him than the young academics of the Hessian Theatre Academy (HTA)? All of Hessen’s university are joining in: Students of the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen are contributing a scenic discourse and installations spread throughout the entire city; young dramaturgs from Frankfurt Goethe University are honing their intermediation skills and will provide their services as hosts to international guests; students from the Offenbach University of Art and Design are presenting spaces and performances that echo Alban Berg’s Büchner-based opera Wozzeck. And the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts is chipping in with two productions of Lenz.