Autor*innenwettbewerb Teil I

In the organizer's words:

Readings / Author competition / Koch/Bradke/Nassar

Heidelberg Play Market

Zwinger 3

13:30 "Herz-Emoji, Bizeps" by Fayer Koch / 14:30 "Gitta" by Fausto Bradke / 16:00 "Hoch und immer höher"
by Jara Nassar

The readings in Zwinger 3 will be streamed live. They will also be available as a video afterwards.
An audience discussion will take place after each reading.

"Heart emoji, biceps" by Fayer Koch
Max is a feminist. But when it comes to dating, his feminism doesn't seem to help him much: Max has been going from affair to affair for years. Even if he doesn't admit it to his friends, he now feels like a failure. When he meets Erika, the curse seems to be broken for a short time - but the relationship ends before it has really begun. Max comes across the so-called NoFap movement online. Its members practice abstinence from porn and masturbation in order to regain their male "primal energy" and become more attractive - in other words, more successful. Their networks reach deep into globally networked right-wing movements. Will Max find the community he longs for here?

"Gitta" by Fausto Bradke
In the living room of grandparents Gitta and Michael: Michael pretends to be reading, Gitta plays her cell phone game. Everything as usual, or so it seems. But the superficial ordinariness gradually reveals what lies beneath the togetherness of Gitta and Michael: the effort of his constant forgetfulness. The decisions that only she makes. The weariness with Michael and with life itself. The daily grind between his dementia and her lethargy finally leads Gitta to make the last decision for Michael. And Gitta? She lives on. Longer than she had actually planned. With "Gitta", Fausto Bradke tells a sensitive story about the loneliness of ageing, which does not disappear even with occasional visits from family, and about the standstill in Gitta's living room while the world continues to turn.

"High and ever higher" by Jara Nassar
A fragile summer in the mountains. Soufiane takes Anse to his family home, high above Beirut. Anse is overwhelmed by the view of the glittering lights of the city and by his feelings for Soufiane. At last, the two of them have a whole weekend just for themselves. But the fear of an impending war is omnipresent and catapults the two of them abruptly back into a reality of life that forces them to make decisions: Anse plans to leave the country, but Soufiane wants no part of it - he wants to build a new life on the ruins. In her play "High and Higher", Jara Nassar creates a tender and bitter portrait of a generation that has to ask itself what it is worth believing in in a country where neo-colonial violence rains down from the sky every day.