OUTNOW! 2026: »MIA SAN MIA« Tamira Kalmbach & Team

In the organizer's words:

About the performance:

How does a Black woman get on "properly" in the land of white sausages? Is the dirndl enough? The drinking strength? The pop songs that fit without a hitch? Director and performer Tamira Kalmbach and her team take the audience on a journey through Kalmbach's biography. In 2015, she moves to Bavaria to study. So far so good. But even though Bavarian culture seems so transparent, integrating is difficult. The endurance test comes at the Oktoberfest. "Cheers you sacks!" - "Cheers you sack!" Gradually, performer and audience delve deeper into the customs, mysteries and truths of the Oktoberfest. Soon a game begins in which traditions and customs are questioned, the Oktoberfest is deconstructed and something new is created.

About the participants:

The group around Mia San Mia formed at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. As the FLINTA* team, they develop immersive theater formats in which the audience does not watch, but becomes part of the action. Their works arise from an examination of social tensions - between identity, power and belonging. They understand collaboration as a political space: diverse, intersectional and consciously polyphonic.

Johanna Lehnert (she/her) is a performer, theater technician and, as Luzie Fieser, a stand-up comedian. She combines theater and stand-up with wit, charm and a fine sense of timing - sometimes in front of, sometimes behind the scenes. Her affinity for the stage began in the youth choir of Theater Trier, led her to the Junges Theater Freiburg and on to studying Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. She has been writing, performing and working with technology there since 2022 - most recently on stage in Mia san Mia (Tamira Kalmbach) and as lighting designer for Save A Horse, Ride A Cowgirl (sandyatemyheart).
Instagram @johannaaluciaa

Isabel Sophia Junker (she/her), born in 2000 in Karlsruhe, is a young theater maker and has been a student of Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2022. As an artist, she works interdisciplinary in the fields of film, performance and sound. For "Mia San Mia" she is on stage and provides the audience with the latest Oktoberfest mash-ups.
Instagram @isabelsphia

Tamira Kalmbach (she/none // 1996, Heilbronn) is a performer, director and theater educator. After working as an assistant director at the Stadttheater Regensburg, she realized her own projects, including "All das Schöne", invited to the assistant director festival "Summer Up 9", among others. Since 2022 she has been studying Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. Her production "Mia San Mia", which she developed there, has performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele and was shortlisted for the Körber Studio Junge Regie in 2025. Most recently, she directed the world premiere of "herzkopfüber" at the Stadttheater Gießen. Her next work will premiere at Theaterhaus Jena under the title "La Bohème - eine Lip-Sync Oper".
Instagram @Tamira_Kalmbach

Féline Rathke (no pronouns // 1995, Hamburg) is an event technician, theater scholar and dramaturge. After training at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Féline studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen and Dramaturgy in Frankfurt. Practical works have been shown in cooperation with the F.E.T.T. Kollektiv (2021), as well as at the Flucto Plasma Festival (2022 with her own [sic!]Kollektiv), the Fusion Festival (2025) and Körberstudio Junge Regie (2025). Féline is a fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation and part of the Froschungsprojekt "Monstrous Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Stagings of Monstrous Figures, Bodies, and Orders in Contemporary Theater and Related Arts" at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.
Instagram @feli_thk

Lotte Luzie (2002, Berlin) studies Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and works in the fields of directing, video and lighting. Her short film "weisser riese" was shown at several festivals. She was involved in lighting and performance in the production Mia San Mia. In 2025 she had a teaching assignment at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Instagram @lotteluzi.fer

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Price information:

Solidarity price system: €18 / €12 / €8 (freely selectable) Bremen Pass: €3 Children and young people aged 5-17: €5 Cultural semester ticket: free of charge