KINDHEITEN - vorschlag:hammer

CHILDHOODS

In many affluent societies, including Germany, children are increasingly becoming a minority. What does it mean to be a child in a society that is getting older and older? How do children view the world we are leaving them? What do they want? And how do we listen to them without immediately interpreting, improving or standardizing them?

In their new work, the vorschlag:hammer collective uses biographical interviews with children from Leipzig, Zurich, Duisburg and Berlin to develop a polyphonic production about childhood(s) in the year 2025. The children talk about themselves, their observations, longings and contradictions - sometimes predictable, sometimes surprising, sometimes defiant and often uncomfortable. The result is an idiosyncratic picture of small biographies that appears both authentic and imaginative.

With a keen sense for the cracks, ruptures and poetic moments in the everyday, vorschlag:hammer creates a multi-layered panorama of childhoods today - and of play as a way of exploring the world together.

An evening that takes the risk of taking children seriously. Not as the future, but now - as a mirror of our present.

by and with:Kristofer Gudmundsson, Gesine Hohmann, Clara Minckwitz and Stephan Stock.

Production management:Melina Hylla

A production by vorschlag:hammer in co-production with Ballhaus Ost, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Pumpenhaus Münster, ROXY Birsfelden and Werkraum Schöpflin. Supported by the Spitzenförderung Theater des Landes NRW