BD$M - Bratwurst. Deutschland. $chnitzel. Macht.

In the organizer's words:

A co-production of Parasites Ensemble and studiobühneköln, funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize 2024.

BD$M is a play.

BD$M is not a play about, but a play against the AFD.
BD$M turns the AFD's media and rhetorical strategies against itself.
BD$M is not a reproduction of discriminatory shit.
BD$M is fake.
BD$M is power and lust.
BD$M is the political arena in which the audience remains passive.
BD$M is a show in which the electorate is entertained.
BD$M is entertainment and spectacle.
BD$M is multimedia.
BD$M is a speech that can be spread on TikTok.
BD$M is surreal.
BD$M is intoxication and splatter.
BD$M is violence, because fascism requires violence.
BD$M is a joke.
BD$M is funny.
BD$M is fun.
BD$M is a disstrack.
BD$M is against the AFD.
BD$M is not politics, but art.
BD$M is the question of how art can take action against the AFD.
BD$M is the question of what art can achieve against the AFD.
BD$M wants to destroy the AFD, but
BD$M is a play.

BD$M is a stage that becomes an arena, a parliament and a TV studio.
BD$M consists of intrigues, affairs, lust for power, conspiracies.
BD$M presents clues, evidence, confessions.
BD$M leads to tears, bad blood, orgy and massacre.
BD$M tells the rise, peak and fall of the AFD.

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Parasites Ensemble
The Parasites Ensemble is a Cologne-based theater and performance collective. It has been producing plays, performances and video works since 2019. The members come from different fields of the performing and visual arts and work together with each other and other artists in a grassroots democratic way. The collective has set itself the task of creating radically political and politically correct art. The last work 'lieber wütend als depressed' (2022, studiobühneköln) was also nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize.

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Tickets: solidarity price system (you choose a price category according to your financial means): 20,- / 15,- / 10,- / 5,- €