The readings will take place in Zwinger 3. They will also be available to watch via livestream and on video following the events.

»16GB: Tischtennisplattenpolitik« / »16GB: Table Tennis Politics«
Table tennis. Not on a green table found in a sports club with rounded edges for a lazy round of ping-pong, but made of concrete and hard edges. For the twins Ceren and Andaç, »it’s a place where you come together. Where our feelings, our pain and joy can mingle.« It’s here, that people made their first music videos, hot wheels were burned making a great to-do, apologies were written, it’s where people argued, stood their ground, made up and celebrated. It’s here, that people discuss their criticism of the system and question structures. Clear, direct and firm, Zehra Sönmez forces society and not least the theatre and cultural sector to look in the mirror, asking where we can actually experience this proclaimed »we« in the shadow of white majority narratives and concealed discrimination.
 

»Ein Kinderspiel« / »Child’s Play«
Ede and Len are in the remnants of a flat. Around them destruction and death. Ede has no eyes anymore, both their bodies are losing blood. They try to take stock: »Are the books still there?« / »There are pages.« A soldier takes Len’s life. Time passes. Fath, Moth and Chi show up, move into the destroyed space, perform the normality of life as a small family, eat, talk. But Ede is still there, visible only to Chi. The horrors of war remain in the room, are experienced as trauma, slowly seep into everything that the family perceives. What remains are Ede and the language. Painful, hurt, undelivered.
 

»Asiawochen« / »Asian Weeks«
Vanessa is studying to become a teacher and is quite exasperated with the blind spots of Germany’s educational system when it comes to its colonial past. At the same time, she is desperate to find the stories behind history: the trauma behind her father’s silence and how to measure the collective guilt of a life in the West of the 21st century. People around her are nonplussed by her obsession. But Vanessa can’t help herself. For her, everything is connected: Colonialism and National Socialism, Germany’s foreign intelligence service as well as Adenauer’s fear of a powerful Asia and the putsch against Indonesia’s first president, the pogroms and mass murders that followed. In his play, Yannic Han Biao asks: How can you make the unspeakable, the repressed consumable?

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