With texts and ideas by Claude Cahun
Directed by: Pınar Karabulut
Claude Cahun’s first-person protagonist wallows as much in melancholy as in mythology, dresses up and disrobes to excess, loves the play of the waves as much as that of love and creates spaces of poetic fuzziness beyond binary models. With texts translated from the French into German specifically for this production, director Pınar Karabulut dedicates herself to the darkly dazzling, radically experimental, at times enthusiastically evil but also self-deprecating poetic work of Claude Cahun (1894-1954), most recently honoured in exhibitions around the world chiefly as a photographer of transgender self-portraits. An evening brimming with light and darkness, “pink magic” and “pure poisons”, with guest appearances by Narcissus, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, Sappho and Salomé, the beauty, the snake and the beast.
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
Photo: Krafft Angerer
- With Thomas Hauser, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Christian Löber
- Directed by Pınar Karabulut
- Stage Design Aleksandra Pavlović
- Costumes Design Claudia Irro
- Light Design Maximilian Kraußmüller
- Music Daniel Murena
- Literary Translation Magnus Chrapkowski
- Text Selection & Version Pınar Karabulut, Olivia Ebert, Thomas Hauser, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Christian Löber
- Dramaturge Olivia Ebert
- Assistant to the Director Joël-Conrad Hieronymus, Dîlan Z. Çapan
- Stage Design Assistant Hannah Wolf
- Costume Design Assistant Heloà Pizzi Mauro, Mirjam Pleines
- Stage Manager Julia Edelmann
- Directing/ Dramaturgy Intern Clara Schiltenwolf
- Stage Design Intern Gurbet Kismet Baris
- Artistic Production Management Victoria Fischer
- Technical Production Management Jonas Pim Simon
- Stage Master Josef Hofmann
- Stage Machinery Stephan Preusser
- Lighting Maximilian Kraußmüller, Parthasarathi Sampath Kumar, Katrin Langner
- Sound Viola Drewanz, Korbinian Wegler
- Make-Up Elvira Liesenfeld, Thomas Opatz
- Costumes Marija Ružić, Fabiola Maria Schiavulli, Teresa Winkelmann
- Props Daniel Bittner
- Carpentry Sebastian Nebe, Josef Piechatzek
- Metalworker Friedrich Würzhuber, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Stephan Weber
- Decoration Maria Hörger, Anja Gebauer, Gundula Gerngroß, Tobias Herzog
- Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach, Jeanette Raue
- Stage Sculpture Maximilian Biek
