2x241 Titel doppelt so gut wie Martin Kippenberger

Politics, pop and provocation meet in the Werkraum: with their first theatre piece ‘2×241 Titel doppelt so gut wie Martin Kippenberger’, the Frankfurter Hauptschule artists’ collective delivers an absurd and highly political exchange of blows between contemporary diagnosis, dialogue-based confusion, sarcastic invocations of the Nazi era and pure slapstick. The starting point is Kippenberger’s book ‘241 Bildtitel zum Ausleihen für Künstler’ (1986). The collective takes the idea further - and doubles it with its own collection of titles for artworks that do not (yet) exist.

High and pop cultural references merge, overlap and sometimes overwhelm. The stage design, on the other hand, is minimalist: a cross in the centre - symbol, image, projection surface. Christian iconography meets party excess and Almklausi’s ‘Mama Lauda’ to the melody of Gary Jules’ ‘Mad World’ becomes the soundtrack of the present.

For their radical text collage, the Frankfurt secondary school received the Heidelberg Play Market’s Author Award in 2024. In November, they will now stage this wickedly sparkling culture industry potpourri in the Werkraum.

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

c

Frankfurter Hauptschule

 