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
+ more
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
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
Sat 11 Nov 21.15
(Premiere)
Sun 12 Nov 19.00
English
SUB German

The performance seeks new ways of understanding and is an invitation to get in bed with each other, be vulnerable, and explore the Common Senses that define our desire. Glossy Pain draws attention to lies, legends and narratives that shape our sexual lives.

Inspired by critical thinkers like Katherine Angel and Emilia Roig, Glossy Pain asks: How can we be soft and tender with each other when the world around us constantly demands hardness? We seek intimacy, get naked, strive for common ground. Not infrequently, we fail at this. Also, because contradictions creep into our honesty with each other.

The solo questions how much of our shared experience is based on “necessary lies.” How can we expect others to be honest if we are not even honest with ourselves? In the search for understanding and connection, it is necessary to re-explore languages of love that do not already dictate who we must be, but who we can still become.

Glossy Pain works as a multilingual collective on feminist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist issues. Following Audre Lorde, the collective’s mission is to liberate eroticism as a force from the clutches of patriarchy and to use it as an engine to create a utopia of free, collaborative work far from hierarchical, patriarchal structures. The collective premiered its first production, “Bang!” at TD Berlin in June 2021. This was followed by “Seymour” by Anne Lepper at TD Berlin in 2022 and a rewrite of “Woyzeck” after Georg Büchner at the theater an der Ruhr in early 2023.

With Riah Knight Text Riah Knight / Katharina Stoll / Angelika Schmidt Music / Songwriting Riah Knight Direction Katharina Stoll Dramaturgy Angelika Schmidt Costume Wicke Naujoks Production Jack Willenbacher Coproduction TD Berlin - Monologfestival 2023 The Monologfestival is supported by the four-year festival funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin

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
+ 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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