Asiawochen

In the organizer's words:

by Yannic Han Biao Federer

world premiere

play
Zwinger 1

Author's Prize of the Heidelberg Play Market 2025

Student teacher Vanessa despairs of the German education system's blind spots when it comes to colonial history. At the same time, she is desperate to get behind the stories of history: the trauma behind her father's silence and the measure of the collective guilt of living in the 21st century West. Everyone around her is overwhelmed by her obsession. But Vanessa can't help herself. For her, everything is connected: colonialism with National Socialism, the BND and Adenauer's fear of a powerful Asia with the coup against Indonesia's first president, the subsequent pogroms and mass murders.

In his play, Yannic Han Biao Federer poses the question: How can the repressed, the unspeakable be made consumable? At the 42nd Heidelberg Stückemarkt, he was awarded the author prize, the SWR Kultur radio play prize and the audience prize for "Asiawochen".