2x241 Titel doppelt so gut wie Martin Kippenberger

In the organizer's words:

Winners of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt stage an evening between conceptual art and theater

Politics, pop and provocation meet in the Werkraum: with their first theater piece "2×241 Titel doppelt so gut wie Martin Kippenberger", the Frankfurter Hauptschule artists' collective delivers an absurd yet highly political exchange of blows between contemporary diagnosis, dialogical 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 works of art 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 center - 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 Hauptschule 2024 received the Heidelberg Stückemarkt's author prize. In November, they are now staging this wickedly sparkling culture industry potpourri in the Werkraum .