Residencies

• 14.02 > 22.02.2022

Angela Kasner, the daugh­ter of a pas­tor, grew up in East Germany. Her aunt from West Germany often sent her gifts such as Levi’s jeans and a Beatles record. Angela lon­ged for free­dom, for the West. When the Berlin Wall fell, she deci­ded to give up her sci­en­ti­fic career and enter poli­tics. ​‘Once you’­ve had such a posi­ti­ve sur­pri­se in your life, you think that any­thing is pos­si­ble,’ she says.

Angela Kasner is a real woman.

Angel is a per­for­man­ce about a woman who does not exist and who is loo­se­ly based on the real Angela: a woman who, in her search for ever more pos­si­bi­li­ties, beco­mes a world lea­der.

A fic­ti­o­nal port­rait based on true events…

By drea­ming the impos­si­ble, some­ti­mes half of it comes true. In Angel, we let our ima­gi­na­ti­on run wild with an impor­tant con­tem­po­ra­ry poli­ti­cal figu­re.

How far can you go in that ima­gi­na­ti­on? When does ima­gi­na­ti­on beco­me a lie, and that lie a logi­cal rea­li­ty accep­ted by everyone?