Theater Grenzenlos: “Liebe”Ten years of Theater Grenzenlos

A young woman full of joie de vivre and love enters a society in which people have grown lonely. Her authenticity holds the key to opening the people’s hearts. Suddenly, here is someone they can feel, someone who refreshes their senses and revitalises them. Together, they go in search of the lost feeling of closeness.

Let Theater Grenzenlos help you fall in love again – with life, with people, with yourself.

With

• Director: Viktor Schenkel
• Development: Clara Hanae Tolle
• Music & sound design: Joscha Baltes
• Cast: Hasifah Nakitende, Alina Ivanova, Alla Ivanova, Jane Nanyange, Bilal Ahmed Samir, Timothy Kibirango, Rain Ntege, Tendo Mutungi

Duration: 60 minutes

About Theater Grenzenlos

Since its foundation in 2016, Theater Grenzenlos has set itself the task of realising artistically challenging theatre projects with young refugees, which, in addition to their often traumatic stories of flight, deal with the loss of home and the search for belonging in an unfamiliar new country. Its main aim is to give the young people a safe space in which they can mould their life stories into a creative form and overcome feelings of powerlessness to some extent. Ideally, this strengthens and enables them to organise their often difficult everyday lives with greater self-confidence.

The project also promotes contact between different groups of people in society. In a playful, creative environment, the young people get to know people of all ages who have grown up here and can help them in their search for support, orientation and perspective. The performances serve as a platform for exchange and encounters and provide impetus for a new way of living together.

Theater Grenzenlos is forever searching for drama forms that work with little or no text (to avoid language barriers), instead using poetic imagery. Methods such as shadow play, masks, physical theatre and dance have proven to be particularly effective.