2024
The Fonds Darstellende Künste realizes nationwide forums at nine stations – with art, actions and debates. From Berlin, the journey leads to Leipzig and further on to Düsseldorf, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Potsdam, Erfurt and Weimar on to Dresden. The mobile theater truck stops everywhere and becomes a platform, discourse space, movie theater and venue. In the process, it combines theater, festivals and independent performing arts production houses in these and numerous other cities in and outside of Germany. Panels, impulses, workshops, international performances and assorted meetings are an invitation to debate about art, freedom and democracy to explore current challenges, live with contradictions and confront oneself in a polyphonic exchange with the most urgent current task: the art of staying many. Everyone for themselves – and all together in heterogeneity, pluralism and acceptancy of our diverse society.
THE ART OF STAYING MANY…
…is an art of attention, sensitivity, empathy, resilience, resistance, contention and the defense of freedom.
… is the safeguarding of a society in which everyone can be different without fear.
…is an exercise in difference.
… is not a matter of course, but hard work and the work of many.
… is dedicated to all those who work every day to defend the right to live and love in diversity.
… is a living practice against isolation, against simplification, against standardization, against appropriation, against loss calculation.
… is necessary in the face of a growing right-wing fringe and its attack on the heart of society. On our hearts.
Team
Overall curation: Felizitas Stilleke
Co-curator: Franziska Werner
Dramaturgy: Fabian Lettow
Overall curation assistant: Kate Fenderl
Scenography: Philine Rinnert
Cooperation scenography: Lotte Dohmen
Technical director &
lighting design: Anahí Pérez
Technical assistant: Rio Theis
Communication: Sarah Rosenau
Production manager: krass&krasser (Franziska Bald, Ann-Kristin Meivers, Lara Yilmaz)
Project directors Fonds: Björn Frers, Steffen Klewar
Project coordination Fonds:Anna Kondring
Communication Fonds: Anne John, Carolin Meyer
Graphic design: Uta Oettel
Videodesign: Roman Hagenbrock
Translation: Christopher Langer
The Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. has signed the Declaration of Die Vielen and supports the current campaign for an open, diverse society in democracy and against right-wing extremism!
„THE ART OF STAYING MANY. Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy” is a series of events of the Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Chamäleon Berlin, fabrik Potsdam, FFT Düsseldorf, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Impulse Theater Festival, Kunstfest Weimar 2024, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, OSTEN Festival Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Plattenstufen-Festspiele presented by PHOENIX Theaterfestival Erfurt, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Societaetstheater Dresden, Sophiensӕle Berlin, Zentralwerk e.V. Dresden, Zirkustheater Festival Dresden. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the context of NEUSTART KULTUR.
