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)
English
SUB German
+ more
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
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RADIOSHOW - COMMON-SENSOTHEK
Godton Flash
Fri 10 Nov 22.15
German
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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
Fri 10 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
Sat 11 Nov 20.00
German

Marianne Hoppe flirted with the KPD of the Weimar Republic. She sat in the cinema with Göring, Goebbels and Hitler and remained the figurehead of state-supporting art after 1945. How does she explain that? And to us? Eleganz aus Reflex explores irritating paths of justification along emotional worlds and German sensitivities.

The AfD is on the rise and more and more people feel comfortable with it. Eleganz aus Reflex takes the Europe-wide strengthening of right-wing nationalist politics as an opportunity to examine a dangerously changeable image of man and German certainties in interaction with continuities of homophobia, anti-Semitism and racism.

The evening will be led by an iconic actress who, for a century, nestled herself and her outlook on life in all political camps and times and in ever-changing social constellations and conventions. Her life from 1909-2002 reflects a century of German history. And the amazing ability not to see oneself as the cause of obvious evil. Based on the historical figure, the opportunism of feelings becomes a highly topical question. Are they the ones that shield one’s own self-image from moral claims?

Eleganz aus Reflex work on a form of spoken theater that is closely related to performance and installation art. In their play developments they deal with historical-political thematic complexes of German-German history and culture of remembrance. The team has developed an original style of play between documentation and narration, which invites the audience into the negotiated situations and thus makes historical constellations or biographical moments thinkable and experienceable as present. Eleganz aus Reflex receives multi-year institutional funding from the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main.

With Lisa Heinrici Direction / Concept / Text Carolin Millner Film Arda Funda Filmset Nils Thore Set Maylin Habig & Nils Wildegans Dramaturgy Theresa Selter Production Eleganz aus Reflex Co-production TD Berlin in the framework of the Monologfestival 2023 Supported by the four-year festival funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin

LIE WITH ME
Glossy Pain
Sat 11 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
English
SUB German
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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
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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
+ more
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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Monologfestival GbR
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