the future is unwritten

In the organizer's words:

A production of the Sommerblut Kulturfestival

"What is it in us that lies, steals and murders? We are puppets, pulled by the wire by unknown forces - nothing, nothing ourselves!"

The Future is Unwritten reinterprets Georg Büchner's question: What are the forces that keep making us suppress the relevant social threats?
How is it possible that we keep suppressing all relevant political challenges so that we can live our everyday lives as undisturbed as possible? The indignation about firewalls being torn down and basic social rights being destroyed lasts surprisingly short - until another tax return has to be filed, a garden party organized and a dog taken out...

The Future is Unwritten opens up an artistic echo chamber for and against everyday mechanisms of repression.

A multilingual loop of silence. An attempt to understand how a new fascism can corrode a society.

Director & text: Björn Gabriel, assistant director: Katharina Speelmans, video art & sound design: Jan van Putten, video art: Chris Hoßbach, set design: Anna Marienfeld, technology & lighting design: Chiara Tess Krogull, acting: Anna Muth / Katharina Speelmans, Lucas Rosenberg, Jona Krispin, Tomasso Tessitori, actors (film): Avi Applestein, Marie Korfmacher, Amineh Arani, Regina Welz, Anna Marienfeld, Malin Kemper, Jan Dziobek, Nicolas Randel, Natalie Dedreux, Komi Togbonou, Katharina Speelmans, visual prologue: Iris Haist, production: Rolf Emmerich, dramaturgy: Alexander Kerlin, assistant director: Danae Hübner, project management: Jonas Atzpodien de Araujo Moreira

In portraits - photographs and illustrations - and text, Prologue: faces of the unwritten future presents people and biographies who are threatened by right-wing violence due to their marginalization, who died or who became perpetrators in this context.

This prologue brings together people from different decades in the context of the impact of right-wing violence and looks both into Germany's history and into a still unknown future that we can shape positively with our actions.

Price information:

Soli-Ticket - A voluntary surcharge for the benefit of art - € 28.00 Normal price - € 20.00 I am a student, trainee or go to school - € 13.00 I have a Kölnpass - € 10.00 I am a Kolleg:in - € 13.00