BALLHAUS NAUNYNSTRASSE goes to NEW YORK

FERIENLAGER - THE 3RD GENERATION
November 17 -- 18, 2010, 8PM

KLASSENTREFFEN - THE 2ND GENERATION
November 20 at 8PM & November 21, 2010 at 4PM

9th SPACE
150 First Avenue@East 9th street, NYC 10009
New York, NY


http://ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/BALLHAUS-GOES-TO-NEW-YORK.107.0.html


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FERIENLAGER - THE 3RD GENERATION
U.S. premiere

November 17 -- 18, 2010, 8PM

Director: Lukas Langhoff
Starring: Ozan Aksu, Kader Arslan, Tamer Arslan, İbrahim-Utku Erdoğan, Duygu Şebnem İnce, Eray Kaya, Esra Kirtay, Lale Mahrt, Alkım Taş, Çidem Topbaş

Following guest performances at the Munich Kammerspiele and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Ferienlager -- The 3rd Generation is coming to New York City. Ten young people talk about themselves and their position in society, clips from a reality replete with contrasts and contradictions, defiantly personal statements that refuse to stand for anything but themselves.


"In Lukas Langhoff's production, a group of young German Turks born and bred in Berlin take to the stage and muse on their lives in Kreuzberg and the many contrasts and contradictions that define it. A hilariously entertaining evening that hits just the right chord."
-- Elisabeth Wellerhaus, zitty

"Under Langhoff's direction, the Ballhaus Naunynstraße gives them just the right poetic framework for their emotionally charged reports...Laid out like the dead, two angels drift past the sleeping youths, hinting at their respective destinies, arguing about whom their soul should belong to..."
-- Volkmar Draeger, ND

"If you want to hear what the "kids on the block" really think, this is the show for you."
-- Alke Wierth, taz

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KLASSENTREFFEN - THE 2ND GENERATION
U.S. premiere

November 20 at 8PM & November 21, 2010 at 4PM

Director: Lukas Langhoff
Starring: Tuna Başgerdan, Dilek Bölükgiray, Hülya Duyar, Özcan Mutlu, Ünal Yüksel, Emel Zeynelabidin

What stories can be told about the real lives of migrants that go beyond the worn-out integration debates and stereotyped musings on identity and belonging, and how can they be brought to the stage? On the basis of conversations and interviews with six German-Turks from Berlin, a collage of biographical sketches emerges with moments of real Turkish German lives in Berlin, as vivid, funny and moving as they are undeniably authentic.


"Emel Abidin-Algan, Tuna Başgerdan, Dilek Bölükgiray, Hülya Duyar, Özcan Mutlu and Ünal Yüksel are six German Turks who have "made it" -- both the springboard and the conclusion of Klassentreffen. But as we learn in the course of the evening, the concept of "making it" is far more than the career term we may have initially have thought of. Their real achievement is to have successfully reconciled opposites, to have experienced the good and the bad sides of two different worlds, and to have found their own way between them."
-- Simone Kaempf, nachtkritik.de

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A guest performance by Kultursprünge as part of the project "Reflections on Muslim Immigration in Germany".

Funded by Auswärtiges Amt

In collaboration with Deutsches Haus at NYU and the German Consulate General in New York.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Lukas Langhoff
• Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
• New York
• Berlin
• Kreuzberg