TEUTONISTAN

In the organizer's words:

TEUTONISTAN
From silence. Speaking. Contradicting.

About a country that is reluctant to remember.

What if the history of Germany is told anew - from the perspective of those who are ignored? TEUTONISTAN is music theater that retells migrant history in Germany - empowering, poetic, radical. Live music meets harsh noise, spoken word meets documentary texts, political interventions meet poetic fiction.

Interviews, social media clips and historical sources merge with literature and composition to create a score of archive, concert, performance and protest - a polyphonic, vibrant archive of memory. The result is a scenic collage that makes migration, language, everyday life and the continued effects of racism visible and audible - from arrival in a foreign country to language barriers and the continuities of racist violence and right-wing ideologies in the present.

At the center of the play is Turgut Özben - cultural mediator and son of the second generation, child of Turkish 'guest workers', who is searching for the lost manuscript of his aunt Selma Aydin. Selma, a fictional character linked to real life stories of first-generation women, was a factory worker, a writer in hiding and a chronicler of the invisible. But in her, the voices of thousands of people who came back then - and who still have to prove today that they belong here - come together. Turgut comes across a web of forgotten biographies, struggles and collective memories.

Inspired by Oğuz Atay's cult novel Die Haltlosen and musically inspired by the award-winning project "Songs of Gastarbeiter", a scenic collage is created that makes migration and language, everyday life and exclusion, violence and community visible - from arriving in a foreign country to language barriers and the continuities of racism and right-wing ideology in the present.

While right-wing parties are making headlines with "remigration", TEUTONISTAN stands up to it - with empowering stories, angry sounds and memories of solidarity. TEUTONISTAN tells a different German story - from a migrant perspective. An artistic antithesis to the regression of our time. A plea for a new, solidary us.

Director & Video Bülent Kullukcu & Karnik Gregorian | Text & Music Bülent Kullukcu | Interviews Karnik Gregorian | Actors Anne-Isabelle Zils, Murali Perumal, Anton Kaun, Josip Pavlov | Experts Helena Gregorian, Marco Perra, Margrit Gregorian, Özlen Sönmezler, Özlem Tetik, Şahika Tetik, Susannah Perdighe, Zakar Gregorian

Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

In cooperation with Tanztendenz München.

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