Shadow voices
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| Title: | Shadow voices |
| Original title: | Shadow voices |
| Genus: | Documentary theater |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Günter Senkel & Feridun Zaimoglu |
| Premiere: | April 20, 2008 |
| Place of premiere: | Schauspiel Köln , Cologne |
Shadow Voices is a play by Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel , which was premiered in 2008 under the direction of Nora Bussenius at the Schauspiel Köln . The piece was a commissioned work for the Cologne theater.
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Like Schwarze Jungfrauen (2006), Schattenstimmen positions itself as a documentary theater piece in the well-known linguistic condensation of Zaimoglus and Senkels. In this piece, 9 migrants living illegally in Germany are given a voice. The protagonists of the monologically structured work include a Moroccan dishwasher, an Eastern European prostitute, a Ukrainian au pair and an African drug dealer.
background
There are neither statistics nor credible estimates about the number of illegal immigrants in Germany.
effect
The director Jette Steckel was originally intended to stage the world premiere of Shadow Voices. In the end she left the play to the assistant director Bussenius. The taz reports on the motifs that Steckel found the play unsuitable for himself, and quotes the theater maker that a production by her would "neither do justice to the text nor to the director nor the author".
The play was discussed in Germany's major cultural broadcasters, but the production by Bussenius was occasionally criticized as pathetic: "With it, the shadowy voices declaim monotonously with the indignation of the educationally valuable, the documentary disappears behind a theater of indictment that one would like to locate in the 70s" knows the Kölner Stadtanzeiger to report. Jenny Schmetz from the Aachener Zeitung also sees the problem primarily in the despondency of the director. In the original text, the "victims (...) are not victims, not asking for pity, but self-confident", which the German recipient may well dislike and euphoric against the illegals. For this reason, Nora Bussenius avoids “realism, but also any political explosiveness” in her staging. Zaimoglu and Senkel distanced themselves from the staging of the world premiere in that they did not appear at the premiere.
Shortly after the premiere in Cologne, the Staatstheater Kassel also put the piece on the program (premiere May 2, 2008). This is where Thomas Bischoff staged . Towards the end of the year of the premiere there was another production in Berlin (director: Nurkan Erpulat ).
Textual criticism
- “Zaimoglu and Senkel wrote down a lot of tough stories, of humiliation, struggles, destroyed hopes and life plans. But with snotty energy and gallows humor, some people create an existence for which they need not be ashamed ”(Stefan Keim, FR online)
- (...) Voices (...) who - self-confidently and far from any kind of confusion - tell of their lives. In various monologues, they show snapshots from the unknown world of migration, illuminate living environments that most people never come into contact with, and at the same time take a look at Germany and the Germans from an unfamiliar perspective. (hr.online)
- “The racist, poly-sexist, vulgar is so demagogically and sophisticatedly mixed that autoaggression and self-hatred of those speaking, the will to violence, contempt, pornographic prejudice and Heiner-Müller's rebellion against the First World, its" piggy "representatives (especially the Gays) and "white mealworms" can no longer be clearly separated and clichéd expectations should be fooled as well as any "enlightened" attitude towards them "(Andreas Wilink, nachtkritik.de)
Single receipts
- ↑ http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/kultur/index.jsp?rubrik=5980&key=standard_document_34223228 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/Theaterregisseurin-Jette-Steckel/!16567/
