to #allmen

In the organizer's words:

a co-production by Nicola Schubert and studiobühneköln
an AUSWÄRTSSPIEL by studiobühneköln An Groß St. Martin

Katharina is startled. Where is she? In the dungeon in the Frankenturm or in bed at home? What year is it again? 1627 or 2025? What has she been violated for? Is the charge witchcraft or abandonment without agreement?

In the audio walk performance to #allmen, Katharina Henot, the Cologne postmistress who was executed as a "witch", experiences a kind of rebirth as a contemporary figure. In 2025, this second Katharina is in a situation where she is threatened with domestic violence. She also fears for her life. But there is a third Katharina. A time traveler. A clairvoyant? One who is without fear.

The play about Great St. Martin begins during the European witch hunts, which contributed significantly to the "concept" of femicide and continues to have an impact on society, laws and the private sphere today in the form of misogynistic habits. In many cases, it was about exercising control over women and queers who did not conform to role expectations. Scenes from the early modern period overlap with the present day: even in today's femicides and domestic violence, the motives for the crimes are often cited as separations by women or other self-determined behavior that contradicts the perpetrators' subjective claim to ownership. What images of masculinity can be contrasted with right-wing narratives of alpha males and incels? What motivating identities are there for (cis) men beyond dominance and so-called toxic masculinity? #allmen or #notallmen?

Text, direction and performance: Nicola Schubert
Set design: Clara Kulemeyer
Music: Chiara Strickland

Supported by the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste
and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

As part of BEYOND REALITIES - European Positions

Price information:
15 € | 7 € | Accompanying person free for severely disabled persons
Free admission for first-year students of the University of Cologne