Program

8 premieres under the heading COMMON SENSES shift perspectives and reflect the status quo of our social interactions. Guests from philosophy and science stimulate our thinking with impulses. You can also expect a “kiosk of unfulfilled wishes”, a floating light-space installation, bar, music, DJs and appetizers in the Discourse Kitchen.

Audience members can experience several short monologues and specials in close succession each evening – we recommend day tickets for the best festival experience.

In addition to the festival trailer, you can find Byung-Chul Han’s opening speech as a video as well as selected press reviews of the festival here.

Thu 9 Nov
Festival opening
Thu 9 Nov 18.00
Festival Opening Impulse
Byung-Chul Han
Thu 9 Nov 19.00
German
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CHINCHILLA SPIN-OFF, waswas
Rimini Protokoll /​ Helgard Haug
Thu 9 Nov 20.00
(Premiere)
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KHARKIV CALLING
Costa Compagnie
Thu 9 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
Sun 12 Nov 20.00
English
SUB German

In August 2022, the Berlin Costa Compagnie conducted research in Eastern Ukraine. In Kharkiv, as well as at the near front, they interviewed four women who volunteered for the armed struggle against the Russian attack and the autocratic system that came with it. The examination of the material raises the question: What would we do?

Zhenya is a human rights lawyer and now a drone pilot in a reconnaissance unit. Helena is a documentary film director and now a medic in a combat unit. Oksana and Tatyana, two press officers, report from the front lines with their cameras. Within the framework of the Monologue Festival, an Ukrainian actress - Anna Mrachkovska - deals with the interviews for the first time and creates a intermedia monologue, based on the thoughts of the interviewees and the participating artists, which attempts to approach this radical present in a performative, cinematic and musical way.

What values and systems are defended in Ukraine beyond one’s own life and country? Would one give their life to fight for democracy and freedom? How what does it mean to perform a theater monologue about these questions 2,000 km away in Berlin, while friends and relatives at home are involved in acts of war?


TRIGGER WARNING: Description of acts of war in images, text and sound.

A previously published announcement and the title have been revised in light of current events. Further adjustments are possible.

COSTA COMPAGNIE was founded by Felix Meyer-Christian as a collaboration of interdisciplinary artists. The works of the past years combine documentary, performative, cinematic and choreographic methods with an essayistic and multi-perspectival narrative. The group’s focus of several works has been global war- and conflict zones, processes of political transformation and the human within. For their multimedia and often immersive productions, they conduct interviews with the people on site, including in South Sudan, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, the USA, Russia, Thailand, Japan and most recently in Eastern Ukraine. Their documentary feature film “Independence” received the awards for “Best Documentary” as price of film criticism and “Best Music in a Documentary” at the 2023 Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival. www.costacompagnie.org

Writer/Performer Anna Mrachkovska Writer/Director/Research On Site Felix Meyer-Christian Director of Photography Thomas Oswald Video Editor/Dramaturg Marichka Lukianchuk Costume Designer/ Artistic Collaborator Zoë Sebanyiga Coproduction TD Berlin as part of Monologfestival 2023 Peromoted by the four-year festival funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin

Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Thu 9 Nov 22.15
mit Sascha Blank: Smoky Jazz & Soulful, Dusty, Intimate Sounds am Cheers Piano
+ more
Fri 10 Nov
CHINCHILLA SPIN-OFF, waswas
Rimini Protokoll /​ Helgard Haug
Fri 10 Nov 20.00
+ more
I’M STILL GOLDEN (MIR GEHT’S JA NOCH GOLD)
Eleganz aus Reflex /​ Carolin Millner & Lisa Heinrici
Fri 10 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
German
+ more
RADIOSHOW - COMMON-SENSOTHEK
Godton Flash
Fri 10 Nov 22.15
German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Fri 10 Nov 23.00
mit DJ Godton Flash: COMMON SENSOTHEK Bonus Tracks
+ more
Sat 11 Nov
Climate activism targeted by right-wing campaigns - Lecture
Arne Vogelgesang
Sat 11 Nov 18.30
German
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I’M STILL GOLDEN (MIR GEHT’S JA NOCH GOLD)
Eleganz aus Reflex /​ Carolin Millner & Lisa Heinrici
Sat 11 Nov 20.00
German
+ more
LIE WITH ME
Glossy Pain
Sat 11 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
English
SUB German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Sat 11 Nov 22.15
mit DJ Barış: Oriental & World Music
+ more
Sun 12 Nov
LIE WITH ME
Glossy Pain
Sun 12 Nov 19.00
English
SUB German
+ more
KHARKIV CALLING
Costa Compagnie
Sun 12 Nov 20.00
English
SUB German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Sun 12 Nov 21.15
mit Blumenschain und Mühlenstein: erfrischend respektloses Musik-Ping-Pong
+ more
Thu 16 Nov
NO MAN IS AN iSLAND
Post Theater
Thu 16 Nov 20.00
(Premiere)
English
German
Sub Einglish
Sub German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Thu 16 Nov 21.15
mit Fabio Kopf: Smoky Jazz & Soulful, Dusty, Intimate Sounds am Cheers Piano
+ more
MY DANGEROUS POEM
This event does not take place.
+ more
Fri 17 Nov
COMMON THINGS
Turbo Pascal
Fri 17 Nov 20.00
(Premiere)
German
+ more
VERONIKA and the essence of humanity. Reloaded!
tutti d*amore
Fri 17 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Fri 17 Nov 22.15
mit DJ „Einlegen & Auflegen“ von den tutti d*amore all stars: Tanzmusik
+ more
MY DANGEROUS POEM
This event does not take place.
+ more
Sat 18 Nov
SAY HI TO ME!
Viviana M. Medina /​ Temblor Collective
Sat 18 Nov 20.00
(Premiere)
German
SUB English
+ more
COMMON THINGS
Turbo Pascal
Sat 18 Nov 21.15
German
+ more
VERONIKA and the essence of humanity. Reloaded!
tutti d*amore
Sat 18 Nov 22.15
German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Sat 18 Nov 23.00
mit DJ Daisy d’Or: Swinging Sixties Club Sounds
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IMPULSE: Sensing the Common Crisis - Common-spirited in the socio-ecological crisis
This event does not take place.
Sun 19 Nov
SAY HI TO ME!
Viviana M. Medina /​ Temblor Collective
Sun 19 Nov 19.00
German
SUB English
+ more
NO MAN IS AN iSLAND
Post Theater
Sun 19 Nov 20.00
English
German
Sub Einglish
Sub German
+ more
Every evening:
SOCIAL BUBBLE CLUB
Sun 19 Nov 21.00
mit Sascha Blank: Smoky Jazz & Soulful, Dusty, Intimate Sounds am Cheers Piano
+ more
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