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
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)
Sat 18 Nov 21.15
German

What do the things we accumulate over the course of our lives reveal about our origins, our thinking, the time from which they came? Frank, white middle-aged western academic, rearranges his favorite pieces, heirlooms, and skeletons in the closet against the backdrop of the zeitgeist with the help of the audience.

Frank is in his mid-40s and doesn’t like to throw things away. His Neukölln apartment is filled with things from different phases of his life. Now his father has also passed away and new mementosand heirlooms are being added. What value does this or that thing still have for him or for others? Some of them used to be a central part of his identity, but today he sees them in a different light.

With COMMON THINGS Turbo Pascal create a solo in which Frank deals with the different social voices in his head. What goes on the shelf, what better stays in the closet, what can or must go in the trash? And what should perhaps be passed on one day? Can the audience help him?*

The solo is not only an inventory of Frank’s personal legacy, but also a commentary on flexibility and adaptability in an ever-changing world. How does our view of the thingssurroundingus and our own biography change when common sense is transformed?With which inner resistances are learning processes connected? How often is one willing to change in the course of a lifetime?

* You need a smartphone with mobile data to participate in the interaction.

As a collective, Turbo Pascal develops polyphonic, interactive performances that turn the theater into an assembly and negotiation space for social processes, dynamics and utopias. In addition, the collective realizes participatory projects and conceives formats of conversation and communication. The collective has been based in Berlin since 2008 and works in the independent scene and at municipal and state theaters. “Böse Häuser” was invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2018, and in the same year Turbo Pascal was awarded the George Tabori Promotion Prize. The interactive play “Unterscheidet euch” received the Ikarus Prize in 2019 and was invited to the festival Augenblick Mal! (2020), the Impulse Theater Festival (2021) and the Ruhrtriennale
(2021). www.turbopascal.info

Performance Frank Oberhäußer Concept / Text / Direction Turbo Pascal (Angela Löer / Eva Plischke / Frank Oberhäußer) Coproduction TD Berlin - Monologfestival 2023 Supported by the four-year festival funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin

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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