Die Physikerinnen (weit weg vom Gleichgewicht)

In the organizer's words:

Play

by Sarah Calörtscher - staged reading and discussion

"Our lowest common denominator - is a collection of probabilities." A play about quantum physics, the result of an unusual and exciting collaboration between the NTM and the Collaborative Research Center ISOQUANT 1225 at Heidelberg University. From a large number of applicants, a jury selected the author Sarah Calörtscher for several months of research into the research practices of female physicists and the quantum world. Her inspired play translates quantum physics principles such as superposition, blurring, entanglement, observation and collapse into theatrical figures of thought. It plays with the thematic proximity to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists" and takes its question about the ethical responsibility of science further into the present day from a decidedly feminist perspective - right up to the resurgent discussion about nuclear power. Following the first reading of this inspired work, the author will discuss the encounter between art and quantum physics with Franziska Betz (dramaturge at the NTM) and Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann (theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Heidelberg) and the question of how theatrical forms make scientific ideas tangible. This content has been machine translated.