DER SOLDAT. Ein Übergangsritual

A black artist realizes that he has become a soldier. As an art worker, he takes the stage. In the struggle for representation and resources, he is given a weapon and learns that the same principle applies in art: the liberation of the occupied is also the terror of the occupiers. But is cultural struggle war?

Few have written as lucidly about violence in a fragmented world as Frantz Omar Fanon. A psychiatrist and Marxist from Martinique, he was convinced that the dehumanization caused by European colonialism could not be overcome through negotiation and compromise, but only through its destruction. Fanon’s justification of anti-colonial violence was received by leftists worldwide, from the Black Panther Party to the RAF, and is still controversially discussed today. When and in what context is it necessary to organize violence or its defense?

On stage, the black artist relives his transformation into a soldier. In the interplay of language and the physical power of percussion, he questions the historical situation and searches for his relationship to violence.

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Julie Folly

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Julie Folly

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