My Personal Ten Years: Wir schaffen das!

A personal story of flight, exile, and new beginnings: In her solo performance, Syrian theater maker Rania Mleihi interweaves her own biography with two historical events: the 10th anniversary of Angela Merkel’s “We can do it” and the recent upheaval in Syria following the flight of dictator Bashar al-Assad. Between memories of Damascus and the challenges of a new beginning in Germany, a multi-layered mosaic of identity, loss, and hope emerges. Between open borders and new barriers, between solidarity and division. Migration is more than a political debate; it is a collection of personal destinies. The performance traces these and asks central questions: How does belonging arise? How does exile shape the idea of home? How does identity change in transition? And what role can theater play as a space for memory, change, and resistance?