West-East-West: Stories From a Still Divided Germany
(Tue 29 Oct: 8pm)
The last 35 years have been transformative and turbulent times in Germany. In this storytelling show, featuring popular music from four decades of Berlin's history, artists and storytellers share their experiences since reunification and the fall of Wall.
Berlin, 1990. Carsta, a young actress, travels from Thuringia in the former GDR to a squatted house in East Berlin from where she builds a theatre and a career performing Shakespeare and Grimm's fairytales with her brother Jan Zimmermann as director. Theatre in Education professor Kristin Wardetzky moves from East to West Berlin, where she creates waves pioneering a course in storytelling. At home in the independent music scene of West Berlin, Peter Hofmann now plays clubs popping up all over the city. As a student of theatre directing, Scottish storyteller Rachel participates in the heated debate and erupting demonstrations as two capital cities are fused into one.
What common and different narratives do they have of post-wall Germany?
With job, rent and price security gone with the GDR, mistakes made in 1990s still fuel tensions in Germany today. Can storytelling help heal still-open wounds?
Featuring Carsta Zimmermann, Kristin Wardetzky, Peter Hofmann and Rachel Clarke. Hosted by Berlin-based Storytelling Arena.
~~~~~~~~~~
2024 marks the 35th anniversary of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 1989, SISF has been building bridges between cultures, artists and audiences all over the world through the power of storytelling – connecting past, present and future. This year’s theme is ‘Bridges Between’. At a time where literal, figurative and societal walls continue to be constructed, we invite everyone to look beyond these boundaries and to celebrate the last and the next 35 years of storytelling with us.
~~~~~~~~~~
Purchase a Storytelling Festival Pass and make the most of SISF 2024!
Buy A Pass
A booking fee of £1.50 is charged per transaction. If you are a Festival Pass holder or a Storytelling Centre Supporter please add a full price ticket to the basket. Your discount will be automatically added at checkout.
