Making Of: Menschheit (öffentliche Probe mit Testpublikum)

In the organizer's words:

⛺️🏢 💿70,000 years of human history - brought to life in a captivating radio documentary . 🚀🛸📻

The text has been written for a long time. But one crucial part is missing: the voices, the noise, the clatter of the past. And this is where the audience comes into play. Instead of just listening, they step in front of the microphones themselves: as hunters on mammoths, as farmers in battle, as the first taxpayers in history. The result is a soundtrack that no machine or archive could ever deliver - because it is only created in this moment, in this place.

🎙️🎛️📻

And so extras become leading actors and the dynamics of the group - typical of Drama Köln's productions - become the subject of artistic research. But what if this "making of" ends up being more than just a look behind the scenes of the radio? What if the history of mankind that we are telling is suddenly no longer the past - but is decided anew with every new voice?

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Admission:

Meeting point is at the gate by 19.15 at the latest

Radio play studio Deutschlandfunk

Raderberggürtel 40 50968 Cologne

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Credits:

with: Azizè Flittner, Felizitas Stilleke, Philine Velhagen and Oleg Zhukov // Artistic direction: Philine Velhagen & Felizitas Stilleke // Set design: Cordula Körber // PR: neurohr&andrä // Production: Béla Bisom / transmisson // Production management: Milena Rosiny // Evening production management: Paula Pohlus // Sound and technology Deutschlandfunk: Michael Morawietz, Eva Pöpplein // Organization/Foyer/Inspection Deutschlandfunk: Manfred Raths // Editorial support Deutschlandfunk: Tina Klopp

A production of Drama Köln and Deutschlandfunk

https://www.drama-koeln.de/

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/making-of-menschheit-29-11-2025-100.html

Funded by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste

Participation information:

Participation is free, but your registration is binding - because you are not just an audience member, you are part of the production. Please arrive on time. If you are unable to attend, please let us know as early as possible so that we can give your place to someone else.